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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
He's now gone out sailing
Published
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
wood engraving
85 x 102 mm
Peel 2087
Notes
Printed below image: A living teapot stands, one arm held out, / One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout. / The Rape of the Lock. / Finis.
Tailpiece illustration to the satirical pamphlet, The Queen's matrimonial ladder.
Detached from The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Image has been trimmed to remove all text except the Pope quotation.
Tailpiece illustration to the satirical pamphlet, The Queen's matrimonial ladder.
Detached from The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Image has been trimmed to remove all text except the Pope quotation.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
King George IV as a teapot stands astride on an ornate barge, formed of a monster with the scales of a dragon, an ass's head (as figurehead), and three large peacock's feathers as tail which curve above the teapot King. There is a sail supported on a mast up which coils a leech. Cupid seated on the feathers plies a pair of bellows, so filling the sail. Four others row heart-shaped paddles. The King smokes a pipe with a long tube formed of a serpent.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Hone, William, 1780-1842, publisher.
Hone, William, 1780-1842. Queen's matrimonial ladder.
Hone, William, 1780-1842, publisher.
Hone, William, 1780-1842. Queen's matrimonial ladder.
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