A reward O, for non mi ricordo, or, The exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates a new song - tune "Bartholomew Fair" / [graphic]

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Title: A reward O, for non mi ricordo, or, The exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates a new song - tune "Bartholomew Fair" / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates
Exaltation of my jockey and his brave confederates
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created: [August 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Heading to a printed broadside in support of Queen Caroline, with a depiction of the Queen in the upper left, riding in a chariot pulled by a lion under a banner reading "Innocence and Triumph." The Italian witnesses against her are being led in chains to the gallows, the man at the back of the line remaking "This is past a joke O! Majocc"; a hangman smoking a pipe awaits them at the top of a ladder, noose in hand. Three figures with bags over their heads are already hanging, with a fourth hanged figure being fed by a devil with a pitchfork into the flaming mouth of a demon on the right, a "Green Bag" falling into the flames next to him. Another victim is skewered by a second devil standing inside the demon's mouth; the words "Milan Commission Receiving Office" are written amid the flames. A John Bull figure with a walking stick watches the scene from the right, remarking: "Well now if this h'ant a sight that pleases John Bull - Go & be hang'd to ye you Italian scoundels - come to swear an innocent womans life away." In the center foreground, a dog tears at a second "Green Bag" with its mouth
Description: Title printed in letterpress below image.
Remnants of etched title are visible beneath image, suggesting that the plate was originally larger and cut down at some point.
Date of publication from manuscript note "Aug. 1820" in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Song printed in letterpress in two columns below title, beginning with the line "Oh, there never was such times!" and ending "Here's the triumph of brave Caroline our Queen O."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 58 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
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 : image 13.8 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 38.9 x 23.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English