Quite well again [graphic]

Description

Creator

Marks, John Lewis, printmaker

Contributor

Marks, John Lewis, publisher.

Published / Created

[approximately March 1820]

Publication Place

London

Publisher

Pubd. by J.L. Marks, No. 2 Sandy's Row, Bishopsgate

Abstract

"George IV, indecorously sprawling, sits on a settee between the Duchess of Richmond (left) and Lady Hertford (right), an arm round each. On the garter at his knee: 'honi . . .' Both ladies exclaim: "God! save the King," the latter's hands clasped as if in supplication. Identifications are given by a book at the feet of the Duchess: 'Second Edition The Spruce Widow in two sheets', and by pictures above the head of each (left to right): 'Richmond', a country inn, with a stag's head sign; 'Solomon in his Glory', the King (crowned) surrounded by fat ladies (the two most prominent wearing coronets), all eager for kisses; 'Hertford', a landscape coloured to indicate a sunset and partly covered by a curtain. Empty wine-bottles lie on the floor."--British Museum online catalogue

"On the death of George III the new king was seriously ill. For the ladies see British Museum Satires No. 13222, &c. For some time he had been seeing less of Lady Hertford and had become attached to Lady Conyngham, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue

Description

Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
"Turn over"--Etched in lower right corner, beneath title.
Publisher's advertisement written in ink in lower left corner of plate: Just pubd. "How to get un-married" &c.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 57 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Lady Conyngham" and "Lady Hertford" identified in ink in lower margin; date "1820" written in lower right. Typed extract of ten 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.

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