The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting : vide the visions in Hampton Bower / Js. Gy. inv. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The orangerie, or, The Dutch Cupid reposing after the fatigues of planting : vide the visions in Hampton Bower / Js. Gy. inv. et fect.
[London] : Pubd Septr 16th, 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.150
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[London] : Pubd. Septr. 16th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Print shows William V of Orange as a naked sleeping Cupid. He clasps a spade in his folded hands and his shoulders rest against two large money-bags, padlocked and inscribed '24,000,000 Ducats'. He has been planting orange-trees, and these surround him in pots and tubs and the oranges are the heads of infants, all with his own features. Above him float the pregnant figures of young women, including a milkmaid, a fish peddlar, a housemaid, three haymakers, etc.

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