Love in a cottage [graphic].

Description

Title: Love in a cottage [graphic].
Contributor: Heath, William, 1795-1840.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The King sits on a sofa with the fat Lady Conyngham on his knee, and one foot planted regally on a footstool; he flourishes a glass, spilling the contents; a broken bottle lies at his feet. Beside him (right) is a table with fruit and a decanter of 'Coniac'. She embraces him, kissing his cheek."--British Museum online catalogue, description of another version of the same design
Description: Title etched below image.
Another version, perhaps a copy, of a print by William Heath entitled "Georgy's delight, or, More cunning than cautious!!!" that was published 16 December 1820 by S. Hough. See no. 14018 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Four lines of verse beneath title: Georgy loves good ale and wine, And Georgy loves good brandy, And Georgy loves his C-n-g-m, As sweet as sugar candy.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 40 x 28 cm on a piece of thick wove paper, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 10 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Dated "1820" in black ink in lower right margin.
Provenance: Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone." William Reese Company; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.5 x 25.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English