Printed below image: A living teapot stands, one arm held out, / One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout. / The Rape of the Lock. / Finis.
Tailpiece illustration to the satirical pamphlet, The Queen's matrimonial ladder.
Detached from The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Image has been trimmed to remove all text except the Pope quotation.
King George IV as a teapot stands astride on an ornate barge, formed of a monster with the scales of a dragon, an ass's head (as figurehead), and three large peacock's feathers as tail which curve above the teapot King. There is a sail supported on a mast up which coils a leech. Cupid seated on the feathers plies a pair of bellows, so filling the sail. Four others row heart-shaped paddles. The King smokes a pipe with a long tube formed of a serpent.