[Rarebooks] fa: JOHN PHILLIPS - NURSE, CHILD, AND PLAYTHING 1809 - Caricature of DUKE OF WELLINGTON & GEORGE IV

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[John Phillips:] The Nurse, Child, and Plaything. London: J. Field, 1829. Inscription: "A Sharpshooter fec. Pub by J Field 65 Regents Quadrant, May 27 1829." Hand-colored etching; 332 x 242 mm ( 13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in). Trimmed to border; very good.

A satire on the Duke of Wellington and King George IV. "Wellington as an old nurse seated with outspread knees and vast apron-covered lap, dandles on her right arm George IV as a two-year old, and holds up in her left hand a doll-like Lady Conyngham, with feathered coronet and wide petticoats. Both extend their arms; the King, wearing a little frock, stares delightedly. Wellington bends his nut-cracker profile towards him, and sings, with a maternal smile: 'Here my Geordie pordie!—I'll sing you to sleepy peepy—and here's a plaything so pretty to make you wise and witty.' He wears a cap and old-fashioned tight bodice. On the boarded floor at his feet are his cocked hat and sword. On the wall is a picture, inscribed 'Windsor Castle', of a house in a landscape" (M. Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, XI, 1954). BM Satires 15772.