Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Chelsea parade or a croaking member surveying the inside, outside and backside of Mrs. Clarke's premises.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 03/Normal/Prints/Titles Br-Co GA 2014.00140
Identifier
ark:/88435/cj82kg386
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1809/03/04.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1809
Extent
1 item ; sheet 24.6 x 34.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 149
No Tegg number.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: The front door of Mrs. Clarke's establishment, Warren Street. Hung out sign-fashion, bears the quotation: "All the world's a stage, and men and women merely players. Some play the upper, some the under part, but chief play that most foreign to their heart." Colonel Wardel, wrapped in his military cloak, and indicating discretion, with his finger on his lips, is handing a bag of money to a waiting-maid and saying, "You understand me" to which the favourite is replying with an assurance "that the Colonel's business shall be attended to." Mrs. Clarke, leaning out of a window, is over-looking her visitor and crying "Though not in love, enter quick, my guardian angel, my sweet Widdle-Waddle."
Depiction: Mr. Croker, ensconced in "Prospect Place," opposite, as the "croaking member," spyglass in hand, is surveying the position of affairs from an attic marked "Peeping Tom's Observatory". He is exclaiming, "Oh, the devil choke her! he's Waddling in, as I'm a prying Croaker." A discomfited group of exfavourites are hurrying off as quickly as possible. The Duke of York, with mitre and crozier, a cape worn over his uniform, and bearing a label on his stole: "Men have their entrances and their exits," cries, "To part with my dear, and not allow four hundred a year." His lawyer Adam, by his side, cries: Doctor O'Meara, bringing up the rear, in great tribulation, is moaning, "O me Leary, O me, Leary! who once made Royalty melt into tears - am now become a sniveller."
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852—Relations with men—Caricatures and cartoons
Mistresses—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Frederick Augustus Prince, Duke of York and Albany 1763-1827—Relations with women—Caricatures and cartoons
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f07718db-7aea-4c85-b521-b4e0c85be15c/manifest