The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting vide the visions in Hampton Bower / [graphic]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[16 September 1796]eng"William V of Orange, a naked fat Cupid, lies on his back asleep on a low plateau of grass sprinkled with flowers. He clasps a spade in his folded hands; 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, of varying sizes, in pots and in tubs; the oranges are the heads of infants, all with his own features. Dream-figures float towards him on clouds, all women in an advanced state of pregnancy. Behind him (left) floats a milk-woman, her yoke across her shoulders, her pail on her head. Next advances, full-face, a fat Billingsgate woman, her basket of fish on her head. These two appear to be shouting at the sleeping Cupid. From the right approaches a housemaid carrying a mop; behind her three haymakers, holding rake or pitchfork, approach together, followed by serried ranks of country women all wearing straw hats."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: Gardens -- Potted orange trees -- Reference to Hampton Court -- Money: bags of money -- Women: Billingsgate fish wife -- Milk-woman -- Housemaid -- Haymakers -- Country women -- Pregnancy -- Cupid.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 35.8 cm, on sheet 30.7 x 43.4 cm.Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 9 of 12.