A leap year drawing room, or, The pleasures of petticoat government [graphic]

Description

Title: A leap year drawing room, or, The pleasures of petticoat government [graphic]
Alternative Title: Pleasures of petticoat government
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, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Abstract: Print showing George IV dressed as a woman sitting in a parlor greeting his female guests, one guest kneeling on a cushion and kissing his hand may be Lady Conyngham
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Robert Cruikshank; see description of later state in the British Museum online catalogue.
For a later state with several speech bubbles added to the design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.13.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Window mounted to 27.7 x 38.6 cm, the whole then mounted to 39 x 58 cm.
Mounted on leaf 20 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "June 1820" written in ink in lower right corner of window mount.
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 26.4 x 37.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English