The triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution & ministerial oppression [graphic].

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Title: The triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution & ministerial oppression [graphic].
Alternative Title: Triumph of innocence over perjury, persecution and ministerial oppression
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [6 November 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Abstract: "The Queen, crowned, in royal robes and with a sceptre in her left hand, sits regally in the Coronation Chair. Justice, blindfolded and menacing, stands at her right hand; Truth, irradiated and holding up her mirror so that its rays illuminate the Queen, is on her left hand. A stone slab supporting the throne rests on eight hydra-heads with serpents' masks. The centre head is that of Eldon, with two other judges, one with a leech on the cheek indicating Leach (see British Museum Satires No. 13740). Castlereagh, very Mephistophelian, is on the extreme left, Sidmouth and Liverpool on the right; there are two unidentified heads, one presumably Harrowby. Round Queen, chair, &c. are clouds. In the upper left corner, two demons, spitting and excreting thunderbolts, carry off the King 'To Hanover'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching ; sheet 33.3 x 22.4 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark; hand-colored.
Window mounted to 34.9 x 24.1 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 11 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Leach," "Eldon," "Sidmouth," and "Liverpool" identified in ink below image; date "6 Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of ten 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 33.2 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English