Cunning-m outwitted, or, Fair play at Brighton [graphic].

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Title: Cunning-m outwitted, or, Fair play at Brighton [graphic].
Alternative Title: Cunningham outwitted
Conygnham outwitted
Fair play at Brighton
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 July 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 24, 1820, by Be[nbow], corner of St. Clements Church [Yard]
Abstract: The King sits on a couch with Lady Conyngham on his left knee, the large feathers of her headdress extending over their heads. The couple gaze at each other amourously as a woman holding a candle (a maid?) enters through a doorway on the left. On the wall behind the woman hangs a picture of an estate with the name "[C]unningh[am]" written on the frame. Another picture on the wall to the right shows a man, probably Lord Conyngham, full-length and facing away from the viewer, antlers on his head and the speech bubble "I dont see it" in the upper left. A document on the floor to the right of the couch reads "Hertford," with a speech bubble to the immediate left reading "The right owner is." A canopy bed is seen through the open door on the left side of the design
Description: Title etched below image.
Description based on an imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and also mutilated in lower right corner, with portions of the imprint statement lost. Missing text supplied from ink annotations on the repaired corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Window mounted to 24.1 x 34.1 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 49 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
The figures of "Lady Conyngham" and "Ld. Conyngham" are identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "24 July 1820" written 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 23.1 x 33.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English