The pot calling the kettle black a[--], or, Two of a trade can never agree

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
The pot calling the kettle black a[--], or, Two of a trade can never agree
Peel 1689
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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The letter proceeding the "a" in the seventh word of the caption title have been struck out in the plate.
One of many satires on the Duke of Clarence and Mrs. Jordan. Mrs. Jordan played Pickle in the 'Spoil'd Child' (first played for her benefit 22 March 1790), the play attributed to herself and to Ford, but generally attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff.

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Print shows Mrs. Fitzherbert, large, matronly, and dignified, walking (left to right), with hand raised, frowning over her right shoulder at Mrs. Jordan (left), small and hoydenish. The latter stands in the attitude of Priscilla in the play 'The Romp', leaning towards Mrs. Fitzherbert, who says: "Get out you Strumpet how Dare you come into my presence! what do you think I'd keep company with such a Pickle as yow pray Sir Keep your Creatures out of my sight. I'm an honest Woman Ma'm". Mrs. Jordan answers: "I Strumpet, Creature, Pickle, What if you have as many Thousands as I have hundreds why then, yow are the Greater W----- Tho once I was a Cobbler's Wife &c." (an allusion to her part of Nell in Coffey's 'The Devil to Pay'). In Mrs. Fitzherbert's hair are three ostrich feathers with a ribbon: 'Ich dien'; a cross hangs from her necklace. A large miniature of the Duke of Clarence hangs from Mrs. Jordan's neck by a small rope or cable. Behind her a little dog, with 'Ds Clare[nce]' on its collar, turns to bark angrily at two other dogs. On the wall (left) is a crucifix in an alcove above a holy-water basin. On the extreme right the Prince of Wales sits impassively, his legs crossed and arms folded; the Duke of Clarence stands beside him, hat in hand, saying, "Why you know George, we leaped the Broom as well as yow, & tho' yow Palaver'd a good deal to Quiet the Lady's Conscience why I did it with less Gammon thats all." Cf. George.

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