The phantom!!, or, Prosecutor of Her Majesty [graphic].

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Title: The phantom!!, or, Prosecutor of Her Majesty [graphic].
Alternative Title: Prosecutor of Her Majesty
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Abstract: "Death, a skeleton with the head of the King, crowned and wearing royal robes, stands full face; in the right hand he holds up a paper: 'Pains and Penalties'; in the left hand is a javelin. Round the left leg coils a serpent, in place of the Garter, inscribed 'Honi Pense'. Under the left foot is a paper: 'Divorce'. The figure is framed by heavy clouds, from which dart lightning flashes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Two lines of quoted text below title: "What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on? Who shrouds this mysterious being, this retiring phantom, this uncertain shape?" Mr. Brougham, vide Times Octr. 20th.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching and soft-ground etching ; sheet 34.9 x 24.3 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 1 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "Oct. 1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of eleven 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 34.4 x 24.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English