The armorial bearings of the white cat [graphic].

Description

Title: The armorial bearings of the white cat [graphic].
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: G. Humphrey?
Abstract: Satirical arms with a donkey as the crest, an owl wearing a cap on its back. The donkey stands upon a "Log" which rests upon a "Bible", a paper marked "Address", and a "Liturgy Petition" with a cross on it. The shield contains various images, including three warships, a tankard of beer, military tents next to cannons, and a ram. Hops and barley (or another grain) are present on either side of shield, akin to supporters. Latin mottos are contained within ribbons at the bottom, and read "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um."
Description: Title from text below image.
Sometimes found as a tailpiece to, and perhaps issued with, the following work: The attorney-general's charges against the late queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19th, 1820 ... London : G. Humphrey, [1820?].
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: 1819.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 13 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
With pencil annotation "Log-Wood, Brewers Drey[...?]" in upper right margin, in reference to elements of the image.
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 23.5 x 18.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English