The loyal married ladies address to the **** [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The loyal married ladies address to the **** [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Loyal married ladies address to the King
- Creator
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Contributor
- Marks, John Lewis, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately February 1821]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
- Abstract
-
"George IV sits on the throne, surrounded by kneeling women; he takes the hand of Lady Conyngham, who proffers their address: "Loyal Address of the Married Ladies." She says: "We the humble and Loyal Married Ladies feel ourselves bound in due veneration to your most sacred person to present to you our sincere thanks for the many tokens of Love we the Loyal Married Ladies have laid under and we humbly acknowledge the favours our Husbands as [sic] experienced through the medium of us the Loyal Married Ladies!!!--" Behind her, a second lady, resembling Lady Hertford, looks startled. With them is a third, perhaps Mrs. Quentin. Behind the throne, which he clasps, stands Hertford (or Conyngham, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847) holding a staff topped by antlers; he gapes at the speaker, saying, "I never heard a speech from a Lady so Cunning--." The King adds "Hum!" On his right stands Bloomfield, looking slyly sideways at his master. Both wear frilled muslin boudoir-caps. There is no dais, and on the right two grovelling women kiss, one the King's left foot, the other his thigh. A third kneels beside them. On the left is a black woman, who says: "God bless Massa he kiss his black servant in the kitchen at Brighton [see British Museum Satires No. 13208, &c.], my good Massa, make no distinction, Black or White, Massa Love'm all." On the extreme left is the profile of a noseless prostitute. On the King's throne is half a (bisected) crown, emblem of the repudiation of Queen Caroline, see British Museum Satires No. 13826."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "Which both by Art and Nature made is, "The sport of sense, the toy of ladies. Royal Fable.
Watermark, mostly trimmed: 1819[?].
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."
Typed extract of thirteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf). - 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 : plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 35.6 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Watermarks (Paper) 1819 - 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
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834
Quentin, Georgina
Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822
Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846 - Subject (Topic)
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Adultery
Mistresses
Thrones
Women
Kneeling
Kissing
Antlers
Prostitutes
Crowns - 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
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
Quentin, Georgina > Caricatures and cartoons
Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846 > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Mistresses
Thrones
Women
Kneeling
Kissing
Antlers
Prostitutes
Crowns
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
1819
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17416543
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245846