A scene in the enchanted island (BM 1851,0901.949)

Sheridan and Fox walk arm-in-arm as Trinculo the jester and Caliban; beside them walks (?) Grattan (cf. BMSat 9343) as Stephano, the drunken butler, holding a small cask of Irish whiskey to his lips. Sheridan holds a bottle of 'Sherry', and says: "The folly of this Island! They say there's but five upon this Isle- we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us the state totters." Fox is ragged, hairy, and unshorn, with talons for nails. Both wear bonnets-rouges. Pitt (right), as the invisible Ariel, flies off, saying, "This will I tell my Master" [George III]. ['Tempest', III. ii.] 6 December 1798.
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