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.
[London] : Pubd May 25th, 1796, by H Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.597
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[London] : Pubd. May 25th, 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 the Prince of Wales, very fat and pompous, in night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers, walking along a corridor leading from his own door 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, dwarfish, shambling, and elderly, dressed in nightcap and night-shirt, 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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