Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Preparing the witnesses a view in Cotton Garden / [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
- Dolby, Thomas, 1782-1856, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [August 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. August 1820 by T. Dolby, 132 Strand
- Abstract
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"Italian witnesses, in a large bare room or warehouse, where three are being washed in a large bath by Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Liverpool. The bath is inscribed: 'Waters of Oblivion. Non mi Recordo [sic]--Ministerial Washing Tub--!' The three witnesses are villainous-looking, and coloured brown. Castlereagh empties a bucket over the head of one, saying: "Can the Etheopean change his Colour." Sidmouth, plying comb and scrubbing-brush, says: "Or the leper his Spots." Liverpool turns to a lawyer (right) saying: "I never had such a dirty job in my life." The lawyer, Gifford the Attorney-General, answers: "We must have them perfect in their Story before they go." He holds a document inscribed 'Milan' [see British Museum Satires No. 13755, &c.]. A second lawyer sits at his feet, mending a pair of breeches. He says: "They are truely a filthy set, we must clear them of Vermin." The discarded garments of the men in the tub lie on the ground, with combs, a lump of 'Itch Ointment', and a box of 'Sulphor'. There are also two boxes: one (left) of 'Windsor Soap', the other (right), 'New Rigging from Monmouth Street' (where second-hand clothes were sold). Three ragged ruffians wait their turn, seated on the ground. Two play cards; one says: "Quel Maledetto Sacco"; the other responds "Ah! quel Sacco" (the Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735). On the wall behind them hang 'Italian Masks and Daggers just imported.' A high shelf runs round the room, on which stand a pile of 'Dutch Cheese', bottles of 'Italian Oil' and 'Botled Frogs', casks of 'Shalots and Garlick', 'Sour Grout', 'Portable Soup', 'Salt Herrings', 'Butter', a huge basket of 'Eggs', and three jars of 'Pickle'. By the wall on the extreme right, next the lawyers, is a cannon pointing through an aperture."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 53 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Sidmouth," "Londonderry," "Liverpool," and "Eldon" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1820" written in ink in lower right. Typed extract of five 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 : sheet 21 x 36.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman Turkey Mills - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826 - Subject (Topic)
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Interiors
Warehouses
Witnesses
Ethnic Stereotypes
Wash tubs
Bathing
Pails
Combs
Lawyers
Brooms & brushes
Trousers
Sewing
Card games
Smoking
Eating & drinking
Gin
Food
Barrels
Eggs
Daggers & swords
Cannons - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 > Caricatures and cartoons
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826 > Caricatures and cartoons
Interiors
Warehouses
Witnesses
Ethnic Stereotypes
Wash tubs
Bathing
Pails
Combs
Lawyers
Brooms & brushes
Trousers
Sewing
Card games
Smoking
Eating & drinking
Gin
Food
Barrels
Eggs
Daggers & swords
Cannons
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
19th century
J. Whatman Turkey Mills
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17392937
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245760