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The vice q-'s delivery at the old soldier's hospital in Dublin.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The vice q-'s delivery at the old soldier's hospital in Dublin.
Description
English: The Marchioness of Buckingham looks from a curtained bed towards her infant which is being shown by an old soldier to her husband, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who enters from the right, wearing a ribbon and sword. The soldier has a wooden leg and a patch over one eye; he says, "Deel my saul but he'll be a brave soldier your honor, he's got a noble Truncheon". Buckingham answers, "Thanks! thanks! my brave Serjeant, you shall be Knighted this day". Behind him, and on the extreme right, stand another old soldier with two wooden legs supported on crutches, and a man in a university gown and bands, carrying a jug inscribed 'Dublin University Pitcher'. The soldier says, "Downright robbery, by St Patrick! we'llbe soon famished if our broth is to be stole from us in this manner". He looks towards a man in a Chancellor's wig and gown, seated on the extreme left and holding a bowl, who says to a nurse who stands over him : "Poo! Poo! good woman this is not caudle! this is the old Soldiers porridge!" January 1789
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 242 millimetres
Width: 372 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1877,1013.898
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The print is explained by a facetious report in the 'Morning Post' of 17 Jan. : 'It is said that the Marchioness of Buckingham was brought to bed of a fine boy in the Royal Hospital at Dublin ; the apartments at the Castle being inconvenient and noisy, the Marquis borrowed the lodgings of the Commander-in-Chief; where for want of a better Accoucheur at hand, the Marchioness was delivered by an old Serjeant named Maclean.' The infant was born 31 Dec. 1788. 'Hibernian Mag.', 1789, p. 55. The man with the 'University Pitcher' is probably the Provost of Trinity College, Hely Hutchinson; the (?) Chancellor may be Viscount Lifford, the Irish Chancellor. Buckingham's unpopularity in Ireland was increased by his haughty arrogance. There was a report in the 'Morning Herald' that the Castle was surrounded by Guards to protect him from the fury of the populace. 'Hist. MSS. Comm., Dropmore Papers', i. 432. He strongly opposed the Irish offer of an unrestricted regency, see BMSat 7511, &c.

Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 242-3.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1877-1013-898
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