A judge of adultery, or, A peer of the realm starting for the Queens trial [graphic].

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Title: A judge of adultery, or, A peer of the realm starting for the Queens trial [graphic].
Alternative Title: Peer of the realm starting for the Queens Trial
Pier of the realm starting at the Queens Trial
Contributor: Fores, H., active 1820-1833, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 1820 by H. Fores, Panton St.
Abstract: "Caricature of a man in top hat and coat holding gloves and passing through a door."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image; the word "peer" has the first "e" etched above the line (replacing a scored-through "i"), and the word "for" is likewise etched above the line (replacing the scored-through word "at").
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Three lines of quoted text beneath title: "Cuckolds are no such monsters now-a-days ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 91 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Marqs. Conyngham" identified in ink below image; "very scarce; suppressed" written in ink at bottom of sheet.
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 35.4 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English