A total eclipse, or, The Moon passing the Sun's disc!! [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A total eclipse, or, The Moon passing the Sun's disc!! [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Moon passing the Sun's disc!!
- Contributor
- Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [October 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published October 1820 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Abstract
-
"George IV stands full-face on a cloud above the Pavilion; his legs wide apart; under his right foot is the word 'Decency'; by the left, 'Decorum'. An irradiated crescent moon inscribed 'Carolina' covers his face between mouth and forehead, its horns pointing upwards, above the apex of his curled wig. In his right hand is a large Green Bag (see No. 13735, &c.) inscribed 'Slander'. In the left he holds up a bottle of 'Noyau'. Across the base of the design stretches the east front of the Pavilion (see Summerson, 'John Nash', 1935, plate x) with the word 'Brighton'. This is backed by the sea, with ships; the horizon is just below the King's cloud, which curves upwards, framing the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1820.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 99 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "Oct. 1820" written in ink 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 34.3 x 23.3 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Trials, litigation, etc
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1820 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England), - Subject (Topic)
-
Clouds
Bags
Libel & slander
Moon
Eclipses
Bottles
Sailing ships
Official residences - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Trials, litigation, etc
Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
Clouds
Bags
Libel & slander
Moon
Eclipses
Bottles
Sailing ships
Official residences
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
19th century
J. Whatman > 1820
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17423022
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245892