The Full Blown Rose and Petty Mushroom!!, 5 August 1806
Scope and Contents
Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. A large rose, whose centre is the face in profile of George Rose, sprouts from the comparative eminence of a straw-covered dung-heap, inscribed 'Opposition-Hot-Bed'. It looks down contemptuously at the head of Petty (right) issuing from the ground among much smaller roses; the latter's neck is a stalk, his hat the top of a flattened conical m room. Rose says: "I really wonder how such a Fungus as you, ever attempted to place yourself in that gay Parterre - that exquisite Bed of Roses as it once was - but now perfectly contaminated." Fox, a burly and benevolent gardener on the extreme right., leans on his spade, looking down at his rightose-bed; he says: "Never mind him my little Mushroom, stay where you are - he only wants to be transplanted - I am an Old Gardener and know a thing or two!!" Beside him stands his 'Broad Bottom'd Watering Pot'. Description from the British Museum.
Dates
- Creation: 5 August 1806
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Language of Materials
English
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