The padlock to be or not to be a queen is the question. [graphic]

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Title: The padlock to be or not to be a queen is the question. [graphic]
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [3 April 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published April the 3rd, 1786 by S.W. Fores at his Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
First state of the print ; title unaltered with additional periods and exclamation points. Cf. British Museum catalogue no. 6941.
Unverified attribution to George Townely Stubbs on verso of print.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Motherhill, fl. 1786 -- Allusion to Catherine Wade, fl. 1786 -- Female costume: Riding habit -- Morganatic marriages -- Allustion to Isaac Bickerstaff's The Padlock -- Padlocks and chains -- Country churches -- Travesties: Hamlet -- Allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Allusion to Wanton Tom: or, The merry history of Tom Stitch the taylor.
Watermark in center of sheet.
Provenance: Old Print Shop ; June 1, 1961 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 29.1 x 41 cm
Edition: [1st state].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subjects: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1786
England > London > 1786

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