Pastime at Brighton [graphic].

Description

Title: Pastime at Brighton [graphic].
Contributor: Heath, William, 1795-1840, attributed name.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [25 May 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. May 25th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Pccadilli [sic]
Abstract: The King sits on a sofa with Lady Conyngham on his right knee, the large feathers of her headdress extending over his head. The couple kiss passionately as an older woman (Lady Warwick?) in the background shields her view with a fan, saying "I shall go to Warwick, and leave this Cunning-m." A stool sits on the floor by the King's feet; each arm of the sofa has a crown insignia on its end
Description: Title etched below image.
Possibly by William Heath, to which the British Museum catalogue attributes many prints from this time period with S.W. Fores's address spelled "Picadilli" in imprint.
Four lines of text below title: Oh powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man; in some other a man a beast ... - vide Merry wives of Windsor.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 11 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
With various pencil annotations at bottom of sheet, including identification of the figures of "Lady Cunningham" and "Lady Warwick". Annotations in black ink consist of "Ly. Conynhgham" written above title, and date "25 May 1820" written in lower right.
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 24.9 cm, on sheet 37.5 x 25.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English