Mother Wood the popular procuress! / [graphic]

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Title: Mother Wood the popular procuress! / [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: June 24th, 1820.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: "Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman (as in British Museum Satires No. 13858) in bonnet with a lace frill, worn over a cap, and tippet, comes out of his house in South Audley Street, grasping in a gloved hand a large bottle inscribed 'Popularity'. He stands, directed to the right, between the pillars of the porch; above the porch in large letters: 'Refuge for the Destitute'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed only with Robert Cruikshank's name, but a collaboration with George Cruikshank is noted in the British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching ; sheet 35.1 x 24.6 cm.
Printed on wove paper.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 26 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Alderman Wood" identified in pencil below image; date "24 June 1820" added in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
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 : plate mark 35.4 x 26 cm, on sheet 36.1 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English