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Robert Cruikshank
The royal cot, or, The great babe taken ill / [? I.R. Cruikshank].
Published
[London] : pub. Pritchard, 1820.
hand colored engraving
6 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. Broadside, c. 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2032
Notes
Heading to a broadside printed in two columns.
First lines of accompanying verses: Run, Sid---th, run; send for a Nurse, / The R-y-l Babe's quite ill; / Make haste, make haste, he's worse and worse, / He's ta'en some nauseous pill.
First lines of accompanying verses: Run, Sid---th, run; send for a Nurse, / The R-y-l Babe's quite ill; / Make haste, make haste, he's worse and worse, / He's ta'en some nauseous pill.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
George IV, a whiskered infant, lies feverish and fractious in a cot decorated with Chinese figures and hung with bells. He is surrounded by Ministers. Sidmouth, holding a doctor's gold-headed cane, feels his pulse, saying: "Dredful sympton's [sic] a raging Pulse." Liverpool, with pap-boat and spoon, says: "I thought how it would be, that Foriegn Emetick has been too strong for his weak Nerves." Castlereagh, standing between two lawyers, puts a hand on the Babe's forehead, saying: "how hot his poor dear head feels." A number of other figures comment as well. Behind him are shelves ranged with druggist's jars.
Associated names
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, engraver.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Pritchard, E., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Pritchard, E., publisher.
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