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Grounds of fortune telling, or, The princely repast / IC ft.

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?

Grounds of fortune telling, or, The princely repast / IC ft.

Published

[London] : Pubd Decer 8 1789 by J Aitkin Castle St Leicester Fields, [1789]

etching
image: 219 x 332 mm; sheet: 245 x 357 mm
Peel 2700
Notes
Title etched below image.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A breakfast-table scene: Mrs. Fitzherbert seated (right) flings the contents of a coffee-cup in the face of the Prince of Wales (left), who has risen from, and overturned, his chair. He walks away from the table, looking at her, and saying, "I am foold to the top of my bent". He wears a military coat with epaulettes and a star. Mrs. Fitzherbert wears a morning gown with a large frilled cap; she sits at a small rectangular table on which is a circular tray with a coffee-pot, &c. Behind it is a blazing fire; the centre of the carving on the chimney-piece is a satyr's head. The carved oval backs of the two chairs are formed of the Prince's feathers. On each side of the wall, on the extreme left and right, is part of a window. Cf. British Museum online catalog.

Associated names
Aitken, James, active 1788-1802, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints