A scene in The beggers [sic] opera wih a new cunning-m actress [graphic]

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Title: A scene in The beggers [sic] opera wih a new cunning-m actress [graphic]
Alternative Title: Scene in The beggers opera wih a new cunning-m actress
Scene in The beggars opera wih a new Cunningham actress
Creator: Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, printmaker
Contributor: Marshall, John, Junior, active 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 August 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Aug. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Abstract: George IV stands at the center of the design, a smirk on his face and an arm around each of his two mistresses: Lady Hertford on left, and Lady Conyngham (who reaches up to touch his chin) on the right. Two pictures on the wall in the background identify the women: "Hertford Lodge" on the left, and "Cunningham Castle" on the right. Caroline looks in at the scene through a window on the right, her speech bubble reading "What do I behold." The King wears ornaments on his chest that include a corkscrew; a tapped barrel on wheels rests on a table on the left, a glass sitting underneath its spigot
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: Edmeads & Pine 1801.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 62 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Lady Hertford," "George IV," "Lady Conyngham," and "Caroline" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "12 Aug. 1820" written in ink in lower right.
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 24.6 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25 x 35.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English