The beggar's petition [graphic]

Description

Title: The beggar's petition [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Smith, W. active 1807-1841, printer.
Dawson, J., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town; and sold by every bookseller and newsman in the kingdom and Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Seven Dials
Abstract: Heading to a printed broadside that begins: "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, whose worn-out limbs have borne him to your door ..." The King is shown as a haggard beggar, his clothes torn and a pack on his back. He holds out his inverted crown with his left hand, seeking donations; his right hand grasps the cane he is leaning on. The sign post behind him says "To Bradenburg [sic] House" and points to the right, the direction in which the King travels. Brandenburgh House is seen in the background on the right, the Queen looking sternly out the window at the disheveled King. A sign at the gate to the house says "Beware of steel traps and sping [sic] guns." In the left background is a smaller house labeled "The Cottage".
Description: Title from letterpress text below image.
Date inferred from the depiction of Queen Caroline at Brandenburgh House, where she lived in 1820-21.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
"Entered at Stationers' Hall. Price one shilling"--Below imprint and above printer's statement.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: T. Edmonds 1819.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 64 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image.
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 17.7 x 23 cm, on sheet 41.4 x 23.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English