A scene at Hamilton Place, or, Cunning condescension!! [graphic]

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Title: A scene at Hamilton Place, or, Cunning condescension!! [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cunning condescension!!
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created: [1821?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "George IV stands on the doorstep of a London house, his hat under his arm. Lord Conyngham, standing beside him, and bowing low, motions him towards the open door. The King asks: Is your Wife at Home, holding up his right hand so that the fingers simulate horns above the Marquis's head. The latter, who wears a court suit, answers: At your Service! Lady Conyngham peeps from a ground-floor window, saying, He's coming 'pon my Honour. John Bull (right), a sturdy fellow in ill-fitting brown wig and gaiters, and with a heavy cudgel for walking-stick, walks towards them along the pavement. He registers astonishment, saying, Dash my Wig! A footman looks up from the area (left), saying, Cuckoo and holding up two fingers derisively. On the wall: Hamilton Place. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate marks.
Twenty-four lines of verse are engraved on a second plate printed below; they begin "My island home dear Frank you know, is here thy smiling looks ..." and end "Thy charms will make each place appear, to me my island home."
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 77 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Geo. IV," and "Ld. Conyngham" identified in ink below title; date "1820" written in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of nine 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 16.6 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 23.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English