A treat for the ladies, or, An extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture [graphic].

Description

Title: A treat for the ladies, or, An extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture [graphic].
Alternative Title: Extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture
Published / Created: [1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Caricature with George IV as an auctioneer selling his royal crown with cuckold's horns to a group of ladies."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.18.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local subject terms: Crowns with cuckhold's horns -- Royal arms -- Furniture -- Auctioneer -- Costume: male, female, 1820 -- Coronets -- Cuckold's horns.
1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 34.2 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 72 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "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 : sheet 25 x 35 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English