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A Sketch at St Albans -or- Shaving the New Maid Dutchess!!!
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
R. C. [Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Peter Wilkins del.t.
Pubd June 1827 [by George Humphrey?].
Hand-coloured etching. 255 x 350mm (10 x 13¾"), with wide margins. Publication line partly illegible (as BM example).
The Duke of St. Albans (left) stands over his moustachioed wife. holding her chin, with a razor in his right hand. Behind him on a stool are a jug of shaving-water and a bowl of lather with a brush. Mrs. Coutts looks up at him; in her right hand is a cheque for £50,000, in her left a Cheque Book. She says, 'My dear young Shaver, here's £50.000 for you but you must dress my Beard once a day at least, do whatever I desire you, and never dare to contradict me', to which he replies ' My dear Dutchess your chin wants mowing sadly, and you should be properly lather'd first, but I fear I have not strength to do it'. A satirical print on the marriage of actress Harriot Mellon (formerly the wife of Thomas Coutts, who left her his fortune and share in Coutts bank when he died in 1822) to the Duke of St Albans, 23 years her junior.
BM Satires 15455.
[Ref: 50721] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)