His Most Gracious Majesty Hum IVth & his ministers going to play the Devil with the satirists [graphic].

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Title: His Most Gracious Majesty Hum IVth & his ministers going to play the Devil with the satirists [graphic].
Alternative Title: His Most Gracious Majesty Hum IVth and his ministers going to play the Devil with the satirists
His Most Gracious Majesty Hum the Fourth and his ministers going to play the Devil with the satirists
Contributor: Dolby, Thomas, 1782-1856, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubsed [sic] by T. Dolby, 299 Strand
Abstract: George IV and three of his ministers (Castlereagh, Liverpool, and Wellington) struggle to pull on a rope tied a mortar, which is shaped like a fantastical winged creature. Their targets are apparently the "Satirists" in the sky in the upper right, who wield pens and banners; an additional satirist, with the beaked face of a bird, is seen in the sky in the upper left, sitting on a wheeled hobby horse and ready to shoot an arrow inscribed 'Cradle Hymn" from a bow. Additional depicted figures included Gifford, wearing a wig and gown and holding a scourge; Sidmouth, using a clyster pipe to shoot at the satirists in the sky; and Canning, holding a cudgel above his head, ready to strike a fleeing Burdett. Following behind the mortar are several men, one wearing a liberty cap, two of them holding a banner inscribed "Life and amours of Madam Hunn[?]" between them. A monkey in military uniform rides a donkey towards the left edge of the design, exclaiming "Clear the way for his most gracious Majesty!" From the foreground on the left George III watches the scene; he wears a black shroud, and only his head and shoulders are visible
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D48670).
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 78 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Geo. III," "Castlereagh," "Liverpool," "Wellington," "Geo. IV," "Gifford," "Sidmouth," "Canning," and "Burdett" identified in ink below image; date "Sep. 1820?" written in pencil 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 24.1 x 37.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English