The Royal foraging cap, or, New Windsor uniform [graphic].

Description

Title: The Royal foraging cap, or, New Windsor uniform [graphic].
Alternative Title: New Windsor uniform
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [11 October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Oct. 11th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Abstract: "A fashionably dressed man, walking in (?) Hyde Park, draws back in astonishment on meeting Lord Conyngham, riding a spirited horse and wearing a marquess's coronet, surmounted by antlers with bells. The former says: "Why my Lord I never saw you so Gracefully set off in my Life before, where the Devil did you get that beautiful Charger." Conyngham: "It was a present from the - to my Wife & a rare Stallion it is, he has also presented my Daughter with a similar Poney." Answer: "Indeed!!! Why I never heard before that he had mounted them both!!!" Conyngham: "And this foraging Cap he made himself on purpose for me, d'ont you think it becoming?""--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Printed on watermarked paper.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 98 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Lord Conyngham" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "11 Oct. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of seven lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
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 35.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English