The Prince Regent, his head irradiated, opens a bag containing cats; a cat with the head of Lord Eldon leaps on to a rat with the head of Lord Grey. Aquatint, 1811.
- Scarpione, active 1811.
- Date:
- March 1811
- Reference:
- 38420i
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Description
The cats in the bag are Lord Liverpool and Spencer Perceval. The rats scurrying away on the left have the faces of Erskine, Moira, Derby and Whitbread, among others. Two other rats, one resembling Cobbett, are in a trap inscribed "Gibbs patent rat trap" and are guarded by a bull-dog. In the background is a gibbet with three nooses. A draped woman aloft in a cloud holds a wreath
Publication/Creation
[London] : Published for The satirist, March 1811.
Physical description
1 print : aquatint, with etching ; image 22.2 x 31.4 cm
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Lettering
The cats let out of the bag or the rats in dismay. Scarpione fecit.
Extensive lettering within the print
Creator/production credits
In the index to the British Museum catalogue, M.D. George suggests that Scarpione may be a pseudonym of Samuel de Wilde
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1949, vol. 9, no. 11714
Reference
Wellcome Collection 38420i
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