The Prince of Wales, very fat and pompous, in night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers, walks in profile along a corridor leading from his own door (right), above which are his coronet and feathers, towards that of Lady Jersey, which is wide open and reveals its occupant holding apart the bed-curtains with a gap-toothed grin. Lord Jersey, short and elderly, dressed in nightcap and night-shirt (on which is a 'J' with a coronet), stands by the door, holding a candle and pointing to the bed; he raises his night-cap deferentially to the Prince, who says, with contemptuous arrogance, 'va-t-en'. On the open door behind Lord Jersey is 'A [torn] Map of the Road into the Harbour of Jer[sey]'; the islands of 'Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and [Je]rsey' are depicted, with a route leading to Jersey
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The grand-signior retiring / Js. Gy. d. et f.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
The grand-signior retiring / Js. Gy. d. et f.
hand colored etching
image: 24.4 x 33.7 cm; plate: 25.3 x 35.3 cm; sheet: 26 x 36.2 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2937
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[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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