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The nuptial-bower;-with the evil-one, peeping at charms of Eden, from Milton.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The nuptial-bower;-with the evil-one, peeping at charms of Eden, from Milton.
Description
English: Pitt, grotesquely thin and much caricatured, leads Eleanor Eden, a conventionally pretty woman, towards a bower (right) covered with a vine bearing many bunches of grapes interspersed with coronets. Within it are three large sacks inscribed '£'. His left hand is on her back, his right points to the bower. She advances demurely, a fan inscribed 'Treasury' held before her face. A Cupid with a torch flies before them. The Devil, a fat nude creature with webbed wings and the face of Fox, crouches behind the bower (right), impotently gnashing his teeth and clenching his fists. Ribbons with the jewels and star of an order are twined in the bower; more coronets and a star emerge from the ground. Beneath the couple is etched: "To the Nuptial-Bower he led her, Blushing like the Morn." 13 February 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Eleanor Eden
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 255 millimetres
Width: 359 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1868,0808.6593
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Pitt had become attached to Miss Eden, had contemplated marriage, but had withdrawn in a formal letter to Lord Auckland on 20 January: ' . . . I am compelled to say that I find the obstacles to it decisive and insurmountable.' These obstacles were almost certainly Pitt's debts. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', pp. 299-303. Burke wrote, 27 Dec. 1796, to Mrs. Crewe: 'The tattle of the town is of a marriage between a daughter of Lord Auckland and Mr Pitt, and that our statesman . . . will take his Eve from the Garden of Eden. It is lucky there is no serpent there, though plenty of fruit.' 'Correspondence', ed. Fitzwilliam, iv. 417. See also 'Diaries of Sylvester Douglas', 1928, i. 98-9, 102. The print reflects the public belief that Auckland was a shameless careerist (cf. BMSat 6815) and indicates the outcry that would have arisen if Pitt had given him office, however deserved, to facilitate the marriage. [Fox made a gibe at Auckland's peerage in his speech of 30 Dec. 1796 on the rupture of the peace negotiations. 'Parl. Hist.' xxxii. 1471.]

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 218. Wright and Evans, No. 164. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6593
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