An attempt to exhibit the leading events of the Queen's life in cuts and verse
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Description
- Title
- An attempt to exhibit the leading events of the Queen's life in cuts and verse
- Contributor
- Catnach, James, 1792-1841, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [December 1821]
- Publication Place
- London and England London
- Publisher
- Printed and sold wholesale and retail by J. Catnatch, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials
- Abstract
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"Broadside; the text in five columns: small cuts I-X on the left and right, each with an eight-line verse below it; cuts XI and XII above and below the three centre columns. Cut I. The Queen's arrival in England, and Marriage. The Prince leads her ashore from a small boat. Cut II. Taking farewell of Charlotte [1814]. Mother and daughter weep, turning from each other; the Princess approaches a ship's boat, Cut III. Her Return--Landing at Dover [June 1820]. She is rowed to shore by two sailors. Cut IV. Her Trial in the House of Lords. A simplified but recognizable view. Cut V. Her Acquittal. She drives in an open carriage past Carlton House. Cut VI. Procession to St. Paul's. A similar carriage scene with St. Paul's in the background. Cut VII. The Highlanders' Address. Highlanders in a carriage with banners (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13934). Cut VIII. Refused Admittance into the Abbey. She gestures at the partly closed door between a sentry and the rejecting doorkeeper. Cut IX. Death-Bed of the Queen. The bed surrounded by weeping mourners. Cut X. Embarkation of Her Body at Harwich. The coffin is swung by tackle into a ship's boat. Cut XI. The Queen's Funeral Procession at Brunswick. The coffin, with crown and royal arms, is borne towards a church door (right) where girls scatter flowers. Cut XII. Queen Caroline's Tomb. Britannia weeps, and her Lion registers anger, beside the tomb of Caroline The Injured Queen of England, topped by a large urn on which is her bust portrait. The text includes the funeral prayer, 'A Dirge' and 'An Elegy . . .' (28 11.): 11. 7-10: 'A seperation hardly to be borne, Her only Daughter from her arms was torn! And next discarded--driven from her home, An unprotected Wanderer to roam!' The verses below Cut XII end: 'For the King shall be Judg'd with the poor of the earth, And, perhaps the poor man will be greater than he. Until that great day we leave Caroline's wrongs, Meantime, may, "Repentance" her foes o'ertake; O grant it kind POWER, to whom alone it belongs' AMEN. Here an end of this Hist'ry we make."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Caption title.
"Quod Jas. C-tn--h, Dec. 10th, 1821."--Bottom of sheet.
Woodcuts with accompanying letterpress text, mostly in verse.
"Entered at Stationer's Hall."--Below imprint in square brackets.
"Price 2d."--Upper right.
For the first edition, see No. 14255 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10. - Provenance
- Pickering & Chatto; November 2021.
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : sheet 45.8 x 33 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Edition
- Twelfth edition.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- File 53 C292 821At++
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Trials, litigation, etc
Poetry
Broadside poems
Elegies
Poems
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Woodcuts England London 1821 - Material
- 12 woodcuts ;
- Resource Type
- text and still image
- Subject (Name)
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), - Subject (Topic)
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Death and burial
Arrivals & departures
Carriages & coaches
Parades & processions
Deathbeds
Funeral processions
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Trials, litigation, etc
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Death and burial
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Poetry
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)
Arrivals & departures
Carriages & coaches
Parades & processions
Deathbeds
Funeral processions
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16069866
- Object ID (OID)
- 33117842