Queen Caroline Britain's best hope!! England's sheet-anchor!!!. [graphic]

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Title: Queen Caroline Britain's best hope!! England's sheet-anchor!!!. [graphic]
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [19 October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published October 19th, 1820, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Abstract: "Caricature with Caroline standing holding an anchor of the Constitution with a soldier and sailor either side of her, in the ray of the sun."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 35.4 x 25 cm.
Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1819"; hand-colored.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 103 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
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 : plate mark 35.2 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English