Fores (S.W.) Publisher.

, S.W. Fores, 1786.
one of a series of satires on the marriage of the Prince of Wales, here depicted dancing with his mistress, Mrs Fitzherbert, accompanied by three friends and supporters, his German cook, Louis Weltje, seated left, beating a warming pan with the butt of a pistol, the statesman Edmund Burke, standing left, playing a gridiron as a violin with a pair of tongs as a bow, and his fellow dissolute bon viveur, the army officer George Hanger, 4th Baron Colraine, standing right, stamping his foot and beating a salt-box with a shillelagh. The title is borrowed from a farce by MacNally, performed at Covent Garden on 1st April, 1786, the date of this print’s publication. The sub-title is ‘As Performed at the Theatre Royal, C___n [Carlton] House, for the Benefit of Widow Watman’,.
280 by 390mm (11 by 15¼ inches).