The broken crown, or, The disasters of a green-bag chief!!! new version. [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The broken crown, or, The disasters of a green-bag chief!!! new version. [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Disasters of a green-bag chief!!!
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hodgson, Orlando, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [November or December 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for O. Hodgson, 43, King Street, Snow Hill
- Abstract
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"Heading to a printed broadside. Four Ministers, summoned by the King, sit at a table bending over a crown broken into two pieces. Sidmouth (right), tilting forward his seat, which is a commode, holds his clyster-pipe; in his pocket is a bottle labelled 'Strong Mixture'. He says: "There seems to have been a flaw in it for some years it only required a slight tap to do all the mischief." Liverpool, next him, says: "Some Foreign Cement or a decoction of steel lozenges [see British Museum Satires No. 13513] properly applied may stick them together for the present, but I'm afraid it won't last long, the parts seem of opposite compositions." Castlereagh says, with a sinister smile: "By the Ghost of my Father I will hold it together by a Tringular [sic] Proceeding. & whip it all round" [see British Museum Satires No. 14135]. Wellington, dressed as a field-marshal, and wearing cavalry boots with huge spurs, sits in a chair decorated with military emblems; he says: "Steel filings and leaded paste is the only Composition to be depended on." At his feet are bayonets and cannon-balls, with (left) a cannon, and a huge ball inscribed 'Bolus'. Behind Sidmouth stands George IV (right) in consultation with Eldon; he weeps, holding his handkerchief to his eye, and says, pointing to his Ministers: "Cant Sid my Tool and L--r--pl, Some how contrive to mend it." Eldon, in Chancellor's wig and gown, holds the lower end of the mace against his chin with a puzzled scowl. He answers: "Dash my Wig if I know what to do! my head's in Chancery." Beside him are two 'Old Green Bags done with' [see British Museum Satires Nos. 13735, 13986]. At the King's feet is a paper: 'Straight Jacket'. By Sidmouth's chair are papers: 'A Blister for the Radicals if they Kick up a Row'; 'A Gagging Bandage', with a pot of 'Poison for the Q . . .' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13868]. Also the words 'Filth', 'Dirt'. On the extreme left, John Bull, a stout and formidable 'cit', is seated on a bale inscribed 'Knowledge is Power' [see British Museum Satires No. 14005]. One hand is on his hip, the other on a bludgeon of 'English Oak'. He says, frowning at the Ministers: "I think the following prescription would be the best Cement, a handful of reformation; a large portion of the abolition of Sinicures [sic], a ladle full of the reduction of Taxes, with a plentiful solution of the Oil of Just Claims, and attention to the wants of an industrious part of the Community, would more safely ensure a permanent union with the separate pieces than all the cement or steel lozengers [sic] in the world." The Queen looks in through a small window, Wood looking over her shoulder; they watch the proceedings, tense and indignant. Above the King's head is a shelf of 'Chinese Toys from Hot Creek': a little pagoda flanked by figures of (left) a fat lady and a thin man (the Conynghams) and (right) a squatting obese man (the King). The last two of seven verses (of a 'New Version'): "She claims a share "To all (I swear!) "That I possess;--but mind her "Good C--tl--gh, "Look sharp--d'y' see "There's Radicals behind her. "A stronger pill "'S required still "Than G--ff--d's famous lotion; "Your brains well shake, "The corners rake, To give the jade a motion."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from letterpress text below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
"Price one shilling"--Below imprint.
Watermark: Fellows 1819.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 65 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "J. Bull," "Ald. Wood," "Q. Caroline," "Wellington," "Londonderry," "Liverpool," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV," and "Eldon" identified in ink below image. 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.
- Extent
- 1 print : image 16.1 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41 x 25.8 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Page 38. George Humphrey shop album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Humphrey, G., 1773-1831?, collector.
- Collection Date
- [London], [not after 1821]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Poems
Broadside poems
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) Fellows 1819 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England.
- Subject (Name)
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Conyngham, Henry, Marquess, 1766-1832. - Subject (Topic)
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John Bull (Symbolic character)
Politicians
Tables
Crowns
Medical equipment & supplies
Bayonets
Cannons
Cannon balls
Crying
Ceremonial maces
Bags
Windows - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Caricatures and cartoons
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 > Caricatures and cartoons
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Conyngham, Henry, Marquess, 1766-1832
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Politicians > England
Tables
Crowns
Medical equipment & supplies
Bayonets
Cannons
Cannon balls
Crying
Ceremonial maces
Bags
Windows
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
19th century
Fellows > 1819
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13880776
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245794