Falstaff and his ragged regiment, or, The witnesses arrived [graphic].

Description

Title: Falstaff and his ragged regiment, or, The witnesses arrived [graphic].
Alternative Title: Witnesses arrived
Contributor: Fores, H., active 1820-1833, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 June 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. June 20, 1820, by H. Fores, 16 Panton Str., Haymarket
Abstract: "Satire on the royal divorce: George IV as Falstaff in armour facing a motley assemblage of testifers."--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 ; sheet 23.1 x 33.5 cm.
Printed on wove paper with watermark "R. Barnard 1815"; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 25 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
With pencil annotation "The Kings witnesses" beneath image, referring to the figures depicted in the center and on the left side of the design; additional pencil annotation identifies the figure of "Geroge IV" on the right side of the design. Date "20 June 1820" added in black ink in lower right corner.
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 23.2 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English