The profligate son : a dream

Description

Title: The profligate son : a dream
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Letterpress text, printed in two columns, beginning: Ruminating on the days which have long past over me ...
With a wood engraved illustration on first page showing George IV in a tattered uniform, sitting on a stool in an alley in front of a sign saying "Remember the poor debtors"; another sign above him reads "Fleet Market," and the pawnbrokers' symbol hangs on a wall to the right. Antlers, dice, bottles, and papers (including one reading "Debts of honor") are on the ground at the King's feet. A crowd of angry men waiting for loan repayment can be seen in the background. A caption from Psalm lii. 7 is printed below: "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength ..."
Publisher's advertisement at foot of second page: Just published, the following dreams: (by the same author.) 1. The depraved husband. -- 2. The conspirators. -- 3. The degraded King. With appropriate cuts.
"Price 3d. coloured, - 2d. plain."
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 12 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink beneath illustration.
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 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : 23 x 18 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English