The pageantry put off, or, The raree show adjourned [graphic].

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Title: The pageantry put off, or, The raree show adjourned [graphic].
Alternative Title: Raree show adjourned
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [13 July 1820]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Pub. July 13, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Description: "The Queen (left), irradiated, wearing a gown patterned with astrological symbols, and holding a wand inscribed 'Vox Populi', steps from a circle of cloud, an apparition which terrifies the King and three of his Ministers (left). The King wears coronation robes, his crown rises from his head. The Queen says with a commanding gesture: "That Cap becomes you not alone [sic] Off with the Bauble tread it under foot! ['Taming of the Shrew', V. ii] tis not the time for Pageantry & Waste, while thousands starve for Want? & while your Royal Mistress suffer [sic] Scorn, Reproach & Persecution, from the Dastard Hands of Secret Enemies." The Ministers are Canning (?), Castlereagh, and Sidmouth. The King's chair is overturned. See British Museum Satires No. 13769, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.
Title from etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.2 cm, on sheet 25 x 34.7 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1818"; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 45 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Caroline," "Geo. IV," "Londondery [sic]," and "Sidmouth" identified in black ink below image; date "13 July 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of four 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 24.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.2 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English