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The new birth

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?

The new birth

Published

[London] : Pub. Dec. 17, 1789 by S.W. Fores at his Caricatura Exhibition Rooms, No. 3 Piccadilly, [17 December 1789]

etching, hand colored
image: 235 x 385 mm; sheet: 261 x 401 mm
Peel 1668
Notes
Attribution to Cruikshank from George.
Caption title.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher's announcement following imprint: The compleatest [sic] collection in the kingdom. Admitce 1 Shilling.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink at left of caption title: Bye Bye Bunting - Daddy's gone Hunting.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) in bed, supported on her right elbow, looks fixedly towards a warming-pan held by a stout woman who approaches the foot of the bed. In the perforations of the pan are stuck three ostrich feathers; a monk, holding up a crucifix, gazes down at it. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a large frilled cap and a nightdress with ruffles. The fringed bed-curtains are looped up. On the extreme right is part of a draped table on which are a cup, bowl, and a large urn; on the wall are three pictures ('Wig', 'Royal Hunt', 'Torey') and the carpet is patterned with Prince of Wales feathers.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Classification
Department