Tasting a sandwich!!! or, a high flavour'd relish, from the copper isles. Hand-coloured etching. Print made by: isaac robert cruikshank biography. Published by: john fairburn. George iv, discarding his crutch, embraces the queen of the sandwich islands, who is seated on the edge of a box-settee, and puts her hand on his shoulder. She has aquiline features and is naked except for a head-dress and ornaments of feathers, and a small apron, and holds a feathered rod. Her body is painted with arabesques of red and blue. The husband, similarly dressed and patterned, rushes in at the door (left) holding a half-full decanter. He registers ferocity, saying, kissa! kissa! —oha! breaka! wifa! heada!!, but is unobserved. The king says (adapting gay's ' beggar's opera'): i've kiss'd and i've prattled with fifty fair maids and changed them as oft d'ye see. But of all the sweet creatures my eyes ever saw, a copper faced damsel for me. She responds: oha!! nica buckra-mana! kissa sweeta mia blackra dogga, maca cacka. A cushion and broken glass have fallen to the floor; on a small table are decanters and glass. A sash-window open to the ground gives a view of trees. June 1824. Date: June 1824.
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