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The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting : vide the visions in Hampton Bower / Js. Gy. inv. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting : vide the visions in Hampton Bower / Js. Gy. inv. et fect.

[London] : Pubd. Septr. 16th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
etching, hand colored
image: 244 x 351 mm; plate mark: 255 x 360 mm; sheet: 268 x 370 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.150
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows William V of Orange as a naked sleeping Cupid. He clasps a spade in his folded hands and his shoulders rest against two large money-bags, padlocked and inscribed '24,000,000 Ducats'. He has been planting orange-trees, and these surround him in pots and tubs and the oranges are the heads of infants, all with his own features. Above him float the pregnant figures of young women, including a milkmaid, a fish peddlar, a housemaid, three haymakers, etc.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints