"My picture is designed to prove, "The changes of precarious love. Cunningham [graphic].

Description

Title: "My picture is designed to prove, "The changes of precarious love. Cunningham [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Lord Conyngham, well dressed in a top hat and holding a pair of gloves, walks in front of a fence and the open window of a building behind it; sheets of paper inscribed "List of the Contents in the House" are on the sidewalk at his feet. George IV -- with the body, beard, and horns of a goat -- prods him from behind with his horns. A larger lady and a black man are seen laughing in the window in the background; posted on the wall to the left of the window is an advertisement for a Theatre Royal performance of "the farce of Husbands and Wives in which will be introduced a concerto of Horn's."
Description: Title from quoted verse etched beneath image.
Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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."
Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Ld. Conyngham" identified in ink below image; date "1820" written in pencil in lower right.
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 25.1 x 20.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English