Cuckold Cunning**m frightend. at his w-f-s caricature [graphic].

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Title: Cuckold Cunning**m frightend. at his w-f-s caricature [graphic].
Alternative Title: Cuckold Cunningham frightened at his wife's caricature
Published / Created: [1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Lord Conyngham stands by the counter of Benbow's shop holding out an open book to the shopman with a terrified gesture: "Mr Benbow, Pray who is this!" Benbow, behind the counter, touches the antlered figure of British Museum Satires No. 14029, and one of the fat ladies, answering, "This is Lady H----d and this is Lady C----m." His right hand rests on a pile of caricatures on the counter. A grinning shopman behind the L-shaped counter (right) holds up two fingers to simulate horns above Lord Conyngham's head. The walls of the shop are lined with books; by the counter three bills are displayed, one above the other: [1] 'Just Published 1s 6d Sultan Sham and his Seven Wives' [British Museum Satires No. 14029]; [2] 'Cobbett's Register Sold here also Peep at the Peers' [? British Museum Satires No. 14108]; [3] 'The K. the determiner of the Q'; [4] 'Queen & her Pawns agains the King and his Pecc' [sic, British Museum Satires No. 13946]."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Description: Title etched below image; the word "Cuckold" is partially scored through.
Date from that assigned in the British Museum catalogue to another version of the same design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four numbered stanzas of verse below title: 1. Twas the eye of a cucold [sic] of fame and renown ...
For another version of the same design, etched by J.L. Marks and published by W. Benbow, see No. 14030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
"Ld. Conyngham" identified in pencil below image; date "1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
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 21.5 x 23.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English