You Searched For
1 entry found
Search Results
1. Raising the wind [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 17, 1809.
- Call Number:
- 809.03.17.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Clarke and four other women stoop down and directs blasts from large posteriors, defined by tight dresses, against the sails of a windmill (right) which pivot upon the head of the Duke of York. The four sails are inscribed respectively, Army, State, Navy, Church. The mill, on a low hill to which a winding path ascends, is Commission Warehouse. The names of the five meretricious-looking women are inscribed on their posteriors. One clutching a tree, on the extreme left, and advantageously placed on a hillock, is Carey. She says: If this wont raise the Wind, I do not know what will, This is not the first time I have employed my bottom to raise the Wind. The other four are close together: Cressaid, Sutherland, Cook, and Clarke, who says: Aye and no bad way to raise an Army-also. Between the women and the mill stands a dismayed little man with arms extended; he says: O ho this will not bring Grist to my Mill I must put a stop to this; and remove this Mill to Charing Cross."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below item., Printmaker identified In British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Watermarks: Budgen 1805.
- Publisher:
- Published by S. W. Fores 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 and Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress and Windmills
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Raising the wind [graphic].