The Mother Red-Cap public house, in opposition to the King's Head [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The Mother Red-Cap public house, in opposition to the King's Head [graphic].
- Contributor
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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher. - Published / Created
- August 4, 1821.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Abstract
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"On the left is a pleasant old-fashioned tavern, 'The Kings Head', with a half length portrait of George IV in crown and robes. Ministers are seen within the open window, Castlereagh's profile on the left. A sturdy John Bull in top-boots stands outside, watching with distaste a disorderly and drunken rabble crowding round the door and (broken) window of the opposite house, the sign 'Mother Red Cap', a half length portrait of Queen Caroline, raddled and disreputable, a tricolour cockade in her conical hat. From the end of the beam supporting the sign hangs a pear (emblem of Bergami, see British Museum Satires No. 13869). The house (right) is a ruinous timber structure, shored up by beams. The crowd have a banner of a woman's shift inscribed 'Un Sun'd Snow NB "The Times" Taken in Here.' A man plays drum and pan-pipes. One man empties a bottle of spirits inscribed 'Queens Mixture' down the throat of a drunken fellow lying on his back. A fat man has a tankard of 'Qu[een's] Entire'. The two inns are respectively placarded 'The Original Brunswick House of Call for Loyalists--Pure Wine--Good Spirits --Sound Ale'; and 'The Brunswick Radical House of Call Italian Wines Bergamy Perry [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13869] No Adulteration! NB Good accomodation for all sorts of Cattle. Whitbread's Entire [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10414]--Small Beer.' In the background is a church tower among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a smaller version of the same design
- Description
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Title etched below image.
A smaller version of this design, signed "G. Cruikshank fect.", was published 11 November 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine; see no. 13975 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. This larger version is briefly mentioned at the end of the above catalogue entry: "This was also published by Humphrey as a caricature without verses, 4 Aug. 1821 ..."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 101 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "4 Aug. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of seven lines from the British Museum catalogue description for No. 13975 (which mentions this print) 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 of 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 26.1 x 38.2 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England.
- Subject (Name)
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815. - Subject (Topic)
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Politicians
Taverns (Inns)
Crowns
Robes
Crowds
Intoxication
Alcoholic beverages
Pears
Banners
Street musicians
Churches - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815
Politicians > England
Taverns (Inns)
Crowns
Robes
Crowds
Intoxication
Alcoholic beverages
Pears
Banners
Street musicians
Churches
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
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
- 17482205
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245901