The "green bag" hobby to frighten the innocent, or, My jockey the order of the day!!! [graphic].

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Title: The "green bag" hobby to frighten the innocent, or, My jockey the order of the day!!! [graphic].
Alternative Title: My jockey the order of the day!!!
Contributor: Langham, I. M., active approximately 1803-1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately November 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Langham, 3 Red Lion Street, Holborn
Abstract: "George IV rides a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399, &c.), the seat of which is a green bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735). From the bag projects Majocchi's head, with the steering-bar attached to his mouth. The King asks: "Do you know all you have to swear?" Majocchi answers "Non mi Ricordo" [see British Museum Satires No. 13827, &c.]. By the machine, leading the way 'To Cotton Garden' (placard on a tree-trunk), walk Gifford, holding under his arm a large 'Bill of [Pa]in's &c' and Copley, both in wig and gown. Behind walks Sidmouth, squirting his clyster-pipe at the back of the King's head; he says: "We shall loose the Trial because these Italian Devils cannot recollect one day what they are told to swear the other." On the extreme left and at the tail of the procession walks Castlereagh, both hands on Sidmouth's shoulders. He says: "I wish they would take me instead I think I could manage it.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 95 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV," and "Theodore Majocchi" identified in ink below image; date "Oct. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of two 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 : sheet 24.7 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English