The Kettle calling the Pot ugly names

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The Kettle calling the Pot ugly names
hand-colored etching
image & plate mark: 248 x 350 mm; sheet: 267 x 370 mm
Peel 2063
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Do not confuse with the very similar print of the same name published by John Marshall Jr. in 1820 (George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 13788).

Summary: 

A pot (left) and a kettle (right) sit side by side on the flames behind the bars of a wide grate. The kettle is topped by the angry and startled face of the King, framed by wig and whiskers, and more caricatured than the Queen, whose head and bare shoulders emerge from the wide mouth of the pot. Steam, covered with words, issues from the mouth of both. The King, shrinking from, and glaring at his wife: "Hiss Hiss out Hiss Hiss / The Devil begone you dirty grecepot." From the spout: "Hubble Bubble / Toil and Trouble." His crown flies from his head, barely visible in the steam. The Queen is more composed; she wears a feathered hat, and says: "Remember when the Judgements weak the prejudice is strong." The flames under the kettle are inscribed "Leach", "L . . . pool", "C . . . h"; the fuel consists of bags inscribed "Green Bag". Under the Queen is one "Green Bag" together with several stout sticks inscribed "Bergami Pear Tree", "A bit of Wood", and "Broom Stick".

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