The filthy bag so green O : a mock-Italian-serio-comic-dramatic song

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Title: The filthy bag so green O : a mock-Italian-serio-comic-dramatic song
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and published by T. Wallis, Camden Town, and sold by all booksellers and news-vendors
Description: Title from item.
Letterpress text, printed in two columns; partly in verse.
Directly beneath title are eighteen quoted lines from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, beginning: "Queen.-- I do believe, induced by potent circumstances ..."
Verses to the song are printed in the left column beneath Shakespeare quote; they begin: In a House of Fears, hard by, Lord! how the Italians lie! ...
In the right column beneath Shakespeare quote are the details of a mock auction; the text begins: To roguish lawyers, false swearers, common informers ... To be sold by auction, without reserve,-- by Mr. Milan Commission, at the House of Fears ... Lot 1. A quantity of pure consciences ...
With a woodcut illustration at head depicting a John Bull figure dumping out the contents of a green bag, with tiny figures (members of the Milan Commission or witnesses against the Queen?) tumbling to the ground. He says: "Halu boy! here's a royal mess of no mi ricordo for you." A dog looks aggressively at the tiny figures, its speech bubble reading: "No, no. I'm a queen's boy-- send them to hell to make soup for her enemies." Four common folk watch the scene from the right, a man commenting to his wife: "Damn me Poll, that's just what I said they'd come to." Beneath the image is the quote: "We say the King is wise and virtuous!!!" - Shakespeare.
"Price three pence."
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 33 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
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 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 37 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English