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My grandmother, alias the Jersey jig, alias the rival widows / [I. Cruikshank].

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Isaac Cruikshank

My grandmother, alias the Jersey jig, alias the rival widows / [I. Cruikshank].

Published

[London] : S.W. Fores, 1794.

etching
image: 23.3 x 33.2 cm; plate: 24.5 x 35.3 cm; sheet: 25.5 x 36 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2935
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

The Prince of Wales, very stout, sits on a sofa (right) with an aged crone (Lady Jersey) on his knee, whose breast he fondles, singing. Lady Jersey takes a pinch of snuff. On the left Mrs. Fitzherbert walks off to the left with a tragic gesture, her right hand to her forehead, in her left she holds out a deed inscribed '6000 Pr An'. Drapery hangs from her head, and a cross is suspended from a necklace on her (uncovered) breast. On the wall is a bust portrait of the Prince wearing beard and draperies as 'Solomon', inscribed, 'and Solomon had 300 Wives and 700 Concubines'. 26 August 1794

Associated names
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811 engraver.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department