Iohn Bull's trump [graphic].

Description

Title: Iohn Bull's trump [graphic].
Alternative Title: John Bull's trump
Contributor: Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: [August 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published August 1820 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline: John Bull dances holding a card with the Queen of Hearts, while other hearts dance around his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with roulette ; plate mark 25.1 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 26 x 20.5 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 51 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "Aug. 1820" written in ink 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 : plate mark 24.9 x 20 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English