Royal gambols!!, or, The old oak in danger [graphic].

Description

Title: Royal gambols!!, or, The old oak in danger [graphic].
Alternative Title: Old oak in danger
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [September 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published September 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Abstract: "Caricature with the oak of England, weighed down by George IV and his mistresses swinging on its branches, being undermined by devils, watched by an appalled John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1983,0305.33.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 59 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "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 : sheet 24 x 34.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English