The scene shows a private children's performance of Dryden's The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico, produced by John Conduitt, Master of the Mint, at his town house in Hanover Square, and repeated at the Duke of Cumberland's request at St James's Palace before the Royal Family on 27 April 1732. Conduitt commissioned Hogarth to commemorate the occasion with a conversation piece ‘of the young People of Quality that acted at his house’.
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Inscription on item: As performed in the year 1731 at Mr. Condit's, Master of the Mint, before the Duke of Cumberland &c. From the original Picture in the collection of Lord Holland.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Holt; 1979
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Notes (object):
After William Hogarth's painting, "'The Indian Emperor or the Conquest of Mexico.'"
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