Public opinion!! [graphic]

Description

Title: Public opinion!! [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [June 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Abstract: "Satire: a balance with George IV and his ministers with green bags on one pan being outweighed by Queen Caroline alone on the other, with John Bull cheering in the centre and soldiers toasting her at the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 35.3 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 14 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
With ink annotations in lower margin identifying figures in the image: Wilberforce, Sidmouth, Eldon, Liverpool, Londondery [sic], Caroline. Additionally annotated with the date "June 1820" 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 : sheet 24.5 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English