- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The pair, both very bulky in Highland costume, are back to back. The King (right), wearing a feathered bonnet, a huge sporran, and a sword, stoops to kiss a lady (see British Museum Satires No. 14384), hands clasped behind her neck; he says: "The Sweetest hours that 'ere I spent, it was among The Lasses O! Other ladies eagerly wait their turn. One, behind the King, covers her face with her fan. Curtis, grotesquely obese, and directed to the left, capers, snapping his fingers. He wears a turtle in place of sporran, and in his belt are knife, fork, and ladle. Round his neck is a double chain of sausages. He sings: "Georgie loves good ale & wine And Geordie loves good Brandy And Geordie loves to Kiss all the Girls As sweet as Sugar Candy"-- God save the King Huzza my Boys!! I'm the Boy for a bit of a Jollification! play up Piper!! A piper (left) with bare, thin, and misshapen legs plays and dances. A stout Highlander watches with a grin. Frontispiece, perhaps issued separately, to 'Kilts and Philibegs!! - The Northern excursion of Geordie, Emperor of Gotham: and Sir Willie Curt-his, the Court Buffoon, &c. &c.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14389 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 607., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1091., and On leaf 31 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published Sept. 3, 1822, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill [i.e. Field & Tuer]
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, Kissing, Daggers & swords, Sausages, Bagpipes, Turtles, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Geordie and Willie "keeping it up" Johnny Bull pays the piper!! / [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A scene in the Royal yacht. George IV kneels at the feet of 'Lady Hell-fling-stone' who is seated (left), expressing delighted acceptance. The King wears Highland dress with a very short kilt and cavalry boots (see British Museum Satires No. 14220) on bare legs. His (Garter) star is centred by a heart. He has a love-sick expression, right hand on his heart, his feathered bonnet in his left hand. On an ornate altar-like table are decanters and glasses. Curtis, even more burlesqued than before, enters (right) carrying a tureen of steaming (turtle) soup. He is in Highland costume with spoon, knife, and fork in the belt that encircles his paunch; a double chain of sausages (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14389) hangs from his shoulders, and he wears a fool's cap."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Try-o between Geordie, a northern lassie, and Sir Willey, O!!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to George Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 14398 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 464., Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1092., and On leaf 31 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published Octr. 10, 1822, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill [i.e. Field & Tuer]
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Curtis, William, Sir, 1752-1829, Elphinstone, Janet, Lady, -1825, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
- Subject (Topic):
- Kilts, Pots & pans, Soups, Sausages, and Fools' caps
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Turtle doves and turtle soup! or, A try-o between Geordie, a northern lassie, and Sir Willey, O!! [graphic].