King Henry VIII [graphic]

Description

Title: King Henry VIII [graphic]
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Contributor: Bailey, John (Printer), publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by J. Bailey, 116, Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Caricature of George IV as Henry VIII
Description: Title etched above image.
Frontispiece to: The Court of England, or, History of King Henry VIII and his wives. London : Printed and published by J. Bailey, [1820 or 1821].
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image: Henry of haughty mind and sturdy mein, with fury reign'd and often changed his Queen ...
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 50 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Sheet annotated in ink with the phase "Frontispiece to History of" above title, and with the name "Geo. IV" below image. Date "1820" added in ink in lower right.
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 16.7 x 10.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English