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The rivals or the man and woman of the people in conjunction.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: J Barrow

Published by: William Humphrey
Title
The rivals or the man and woman of the people in conjunction.
Description
English: The Prince of Wales has fallen to the ground, a man stands over him, holding his head and threatening him with a drawn sword. Both carry shields on the left arm. Fox (left), with a fox's head, runs off, holding Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) seated across his shoulders. The Prince, worsted in a fight, says, "Stop Colonel, Charley has decided it". The Colonel, perhaps Tarleton, looks up at a window (right), where a man in a nightcap and wearing stag's horns leans out, saying, "Gentn don't disturb my Rest, you have got my Wife there, my Horns are well tipt & I'm contented". The Colonel answers, "Go to Bed you old Ram". A door beneath the window is inscribed 'Mr Robin[son]'. Fox says:


"He that fights and runs away
may live to fight another Day."

Perdita says:
"But he that's in a battle Slain
Will never rise to fight again."

In the foreground are the shield and sword dropped by Fox (centre), a fox running off with a bone (left), and two dogs fighting (right). 19 June 1788


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: George IV, King of the United Kingdom
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 243 millimetres
Width: 341 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5747
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Perhaps a reissue of a print published c. 1782, when the rivalry of Fox, the Prince of Wales, and Colonel Tarleton for Perdita was a common topic m the newspapers, see BMSat 6117, &c. The liaison between the Prince and Mrs. Robinson ended before 1782, but cf. BMSat 6928, &c. For 'the Man and Woman of the People' see BMSat 6117.

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Dorothy George's attribution to Barrow is certainly right; the handwriting of the lettering is his.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5747
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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