All my eye [graphic]

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Title: All my eye [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: [May 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 1821 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Abstract: "A parody of G. Cruikshank's 'My Eye', see British Museum Satires No. 14168. The eye is as before but much enlarged, filling the design. It contains a printing-press, inscribed 'Radical Press', and on it rests the Queen's bust portrait wreathed in laurel, closely copied from British Museum Satires No. 14150. Below the eye: 'See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press. I'll watch them [him] tame. Shakespeare' ['Othello', III. iii; quoted in British Museum Satires No. 14168]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched at top of image.
Text at bottom of image: See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press.
Text in lower right corner of image: I'll watch them tame. Shakspeare.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 45 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; September 2014.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.2 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic): Eyes
Printing presses
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Eyes
Printing presses
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership

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