When a Prince, few were like him!!! Now a king, compleatly, without his equal!!!! [graphic]

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Title: When a Prince, few were like him!!! Now a king, compleatly, without his equal!!!! [graphic]
Creator: Vowles, S., active 1820-1825, printmaker
Published / Created: [29 August 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 29 Augt. 1820 by one of the Society for Exposing of Vice
Abstract: "Caricature on George IV, seated on his throne, to whom John Bull presents the Queen's letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es".
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 23.4 x 33 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 76 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "29 Aug. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet.
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 26.6 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English