Perdita

scanned from Anne K. Mellor's chapter "Mary Robinson and the Scripts of Female Sexuality" in Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism

The Prince of Wales first saw Robinson when she performed in Winter's Tale. This cartoon mocks his lovenote to her which was a cut out heart with the words "Unalterable to my Perdita through life" printed on it. He signed it, in blood, "Florizel." In the lower left-hand corner the King laments his son's fall to this seducing woman, while on the right Robinson's husband supports her lovers (Lords North and Fox and Tarleton) on his horns.