The blanket hornpipe, by Signor Non Ricordo a new farce, now performing with thundering and unbounded applause, by the Ladies of the Metropolis, at the Theatre Rl. Palace Yard / [graphic]

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Title: The blanket hornpipe, by Signor Non Ricordo a new farce, now performing with thundering and unbounded applause, by the Ladies of the Metropolis, at the Theatre Rl. Palace Yard / [graphic]
Creator: Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [September 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by Benbow, Sep. 1820, corner of St. Clement's Church Yd., Strand
Abstract: "Five burlesqued and bedizened women toss, 'for Virtue's sake', the King high from a blanket, egged on by the two sentries (see British Museum Satires No. 13809) who stand before the screen of Carlton House."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1819.
Mounted to 39 x 58 cm.
Mounted on leaf 88 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "Sep. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of 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 31.3 x 41 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English