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| Keywords: Tasting a sandwich!!! or, a high flavour'd relish, from the copper isles.jpg en 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 http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details aspx objectId 1645340 partId 1 searchText Hawaii+queen view list page 1 British Museum Robert Isaac Cruikshank 1789 1856 ; J Fairburn 1824-06 PD-old-100 Caricatures of the United Kingdom 1824 cartoons Hawaii in the 1820s London in the 1820s Isaac Robert Cruikshank KamÄmalu Cruikshank Kamehameha II Cruikshank Caricatures of George IV of the United Kingdom Cruikshank | ||||
