A touch of the sublime!!!, or, The Pell-Mell boar and the powers of brandy! [graphic]

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Title: A touch of the sublime!!!, or, The Pell-Mell boar and the powers of brandy! [graphic]
Alternative Title: Pell-Mell boar and the powers of brandy!
Creator: Vowles, S., active 1820-1825, printmaker
Contributor: Griffin, J., active 1820-, publisher.
Published / Created: [30 September 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 30th Septr. 1820 by J. Griffin, outside Middle Row, Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn Lane
Abstract: "Heading to a lithographed broadside. The interior of a boarded sty in which a great boar, with the head of George IV, lies upon straw, boar and straw being spotted with black. Castlereagh empties a bucket of brandy into an overflowing trough, while Sidmouth leans over the half-door to squirt the animal with his clyster-pipe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849). The former says: "Friend Sid-- the Augean Stables were nothing to clense, compar'd to this Stye!!!" Sidmouth: "Aye, my worthy Fellow Servant, you will find the Stye, your Masterpiece! and with all my care, I can't make this Beast appear decent, he is so cover'd with filth!!" The first and last of five verses: 'In fam'd Pell-Mell [Carlton House] is kept a Boar, Which no strong tie can bind, No Savage Beast e'er known before, Was like it in its kind: Its breech so large, 'twould fill a barge. Its craw much larger still; To fill which full, One Mister Bull Pays dear for Brardy-Swill! . . . This Brute, unlike all other Boars, A faithless treacherous he Befouls its stye, and wastes its stores With each foul Boorish She! While belching still, its foul-breathed will, Its true-mate's life it seeks; And in the stretch of beastly lech Each tie of Nature breaks!!!'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Five numbered stanzas of verse below title: In fam'd Pell-Mell is kept a boar, Which no strong tie can bind ...
Three lines of text above imprint: The above hymn was written in a pious mood, on a saintly subject, and sung with pure devotion by a holy-assemblage of faithful worshippers ....
"Price one shilling"--Below imprint.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 89 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Geo. IV," "Sidmouth," and "Londondery [sic]" identified in ink below image; date "30 Sep. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. The word "Suppressed" is written twice at bottom of sheet, once in ink in lower center (beneath price statement) and once in pencil in lower right. 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 : image 17.1 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 36.7 x 23.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English