Which is the dirtiest so foul the stains will be indelible. [graphic]

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Title: Which is the dirtiest so foul the stains will be indelible. [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [5 September 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Sep. 5th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Abstract: "The King (right) and Queen (left) hurl mud at each other. By the former (who wears jack-boots) is a bucket of 'Italian Filth' [see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.]; the Queen's (similar) bucket is inscribed 'Filth from St Giles's, St James, Portman Sqr, Hamilton Place [the Conynghams' address, see British Museum Satires No. 13847] &c &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching ; sheet 22.3 x 32.1 cm.
Printed on laid paper with the watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored.
Window mounted to 23.5 x 33.5 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 79 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "5 Sept. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of three 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 : sheet 23.4 x 33.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English