A struggle for the horns! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A struggle for the horns! [graphic]
- Creator
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Contributor
- Marks, John Lewis, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately September 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Abstract
-
"In the foreground John Bull, a drink-blotched 'cit', and George IV tug at a large pair of antlers. The King (right): "I tell you Bull I will wear them--I know they will become me--what am I allways to be disappointed." John wears a large white favour in his hat inscribed 'The Queen'; he says: "I'll be D--n'd if you do wear them yet, however much you may deserve them so it is useless contending G--e." At his feet is a large bludgeon: 'John Bull's Oke'. Behind them, a woman, apparently Mrs. Bull, strikes Majocchi, so that his nose gushes blood, saying: "You're one of the Villians from Cotton Garden" [see British Museum Satires No. 13824, &c.]. He falls backwards, saying: "Non mi Ricordo" [see British Museum Satires No. 13827]. In the middle distance behind John (left), stands a woman arm-in-arm with a sailor, who is next a soldier; she waves her handkerchief, saying; "The Queen for ever"; the other two wave their hats, shouting: "Go it John we'll stand by You." Behind the King (right) stand four witnesses: three villainous-looking fops and a woman; they are 'Inhabitants of Cotton Garden'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 24.4 x 34.6 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 82 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of six 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 23.9 x 34 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Page 41. George Humphrey shop album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Humphrey, G., 1773-1831?, collector.
- Collection Date
- [London], [not after 1821]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820 - Subject (Topic)
-
John Bull (Symbolic character)
Adultery
Antlers
Pulling
Fighting
Witnesses
Sailors
Soldiers - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Antlers
Pulling
Fighting
Witnesses
Sailors
Soldiers
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13883464
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245844