A strip design burlesquing the entry of the Duke and Duchess of York into London; balustrades in the background indicate Westminster Bridge. The pair sit arm in arm on the back of a large bull, 'John Bull'; the Duchess sits behind holding the animal's tail; she says, "La My Love how Merry dem People was be to see us. oh what good natured People dey are What Pretty tings dey have got". He answers, "yes My Dear it is their Joy to see You, but take care you do not lose your Seat". She sits on a bag inscribed '100.000 Crowns'. The bull snorts: "this is Another Load on my Back". In front of the bull, leading the procession on the extreme right, three black soldiers wearing large jewelled Turkish turbans dance, one with cymbals, the other two striking large tambourines with bells. One says, "I suppose Massa will flogg one of us to morrow for the Amusement of my Lady." (A black cymbal-player was for many years a conspicuous figure in the Guards. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 170, cf. BMSat 8116.)
<p><br>Behind the bull a short drummer plays a large drum with a marrow-bone and a birch-rod. After him walks a lean moustachioed Prussian, one of the Duchess's servants; he turns round angrily to a man resembling a bailiff and holding a club, who plunges his hands into the foreigner's coat-pocket. They are followed by the Duke's butcher and tailor holding long bills, and looking delighted at the prospect of payment. They say "now for some bit". A Jew (identified as Isaac of St. James's) says "now we shall touch de Monies". Two fashionably dressed men on the extreme left say, we shall come in for some stuff; one has a tennis-racket under his arm and wears an overcoat with many capes which reaches to his heels; he resembles Tetherington, see BMSat 7789. The other, identified as Lord Barrymore, holds a dice-box.  20 November 1791.
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<br>Hand-coloured etching
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<p>Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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<dl><dd>Published by: S W Fores</dd></dl></div>
1791<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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