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A scene in the enchanted island   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank

Published by: Allen & West
Title
A scene in the enchanted island
Description
English: Sheridan and Fox walk arm-in-arm as Trinculo the jester and Caliban; beside them walks (?) Grattan (cf. BMSat 9343) as Stephano, the drunken butler, holding a small cask of Irish whiskey to his lips. Sheridan holds a bottle of 'Sherry', and says: "The folly of this Island! They say there's but five upon this Isle- we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us the state totters." Fox is ragged, hairy, and unshorn, with talons for nails. Both wear bonnets-rouges. Pitt (right), as the invisible Ariel, flies off, saying, "This will I tell my Master" [George III]. ['Tempest', III. ii.] 6 December 1798.
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Depicted people Associated with: Charles James Fox
Date 1798
date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 234 millimetres
Width: 327 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1851,0901.949
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

A satire on the discredit of the Opposition after the Irish Rebellion, confession of O'Connor, and Battle of the Nile, cf. BMSat 9228, 9245, 9248, &c. For satirical adaptations of 'The Tempest', cf. BMSat 6535, 8618, 9275.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-949
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