Dr Richard Price kneeling on a large crown (with a demon on his back) to look through a peep-hole at a group of ruffians ransacking Marie Antoinette's bedroom; representing a speech by Price which allegedly advocated the French Revolution. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1790 (?).
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811
- Date:
- 12 December [1790?]
- Reference:
- 12178i
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Price is quoting: "Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen", the demon says: "Oh! quel Beau Jour". Marie Antoinette is observed through an open door escaping downstairs in her night-gown, on her bed is an inscription: "Alons le Duc nous payerons Noblement pour ceci". One of the ruffians who is about to stab a pillow shouts "Here she is"
Publication/Creation
[Lo]ndon (3 Piccadilly where may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in the kingdom admitance 1 shilling) : S.W. Fores, 12 December [1790?]
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 27 x 37.5 cm
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Lettering
The doctor indulged with his favorite scene. ...
Lettering continues: "Is this a triumph to be consecrated at altars? to be commemorated with grateful thanksgiving! to be offered to the divine humanity with fervent prayer & enthussiastick ejaculation? - These Theban & Thracian orgies, acted in France, and appauded only in the Old Jewry. Vide Reflections on the revolution page 107."
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7690
Reference
Wellcome Collection 12178i
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