Brandenburgh House theatricals a wood scene in a new farce now performing with the greatest eclat at the Hammersmith Theatre. [graphic]

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Title: Brandenburgh House theatricals a wood scene in a new farce now performing with the greatest eclat at the Hammersmith Theatre. [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [20 September 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Sep. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadill [sic]
Abstract: "The Queen (right) and Mrs. Wood, a stout virago and a lean one, fight, clutching each other's hair. The Queen's large feathered hat is on the floor. A curtain is draped on a pillar (right), and from behind a curtain on the left, Alderman Wood, wearing his furred gown, watches the fray, drooping apprehensively; he says: "He Jests at Scars who never felt a wound!" Mrs. Wood: "I'll teach you to play at Bergami with my Husband indeed--no--no I've read Jane Shore, & knows how things goes on in Courts, & Palace's, in Como's [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13857], Virgin's Waters, Cottages, Pavilions, Yachts, & such like. An Honest Citizen has no business in such bad place's & I'll Tear your Eyes out before you shall make a Bergami of him." The Queen shrieks: "Avaunt ye Termagant I'll stop the Tongue of Slander & Level to the Dust, the proudest Foe that dares suspect my Chastity I'd tear you limb from [sic] tho you be made of Wood." Behind, on a small chimney-piece, is a bust, perhaps that of Lady Craven."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25 x 35.4 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 87 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Ald. Wood," "Mrs. Wood," and "Q. Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "20 Sep. 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 : plate mark 24.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English