The filth and lies of the green bag visiting their parents and friends, or, The dandy of sixty severely beat by his wife [graphic]

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Title: The filth and lies of the green bag visiting their parents and friends, or, The dandy of sixty severely beat by his wife [graphic]
Alternative Title: Dandy of sixty severely beat by his wife
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [November 1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Benbow, 269 Strand
Abstract: "The King and his Ministers (with the Devil), Bloomfield, the Archbishop, and Wilberforce, proved guilty by the Green Bag, which shows that she's as innocent as we are Vile. The King tramples on [inter alia] a paper: on the necessity of punishing Bigamy, the only allusion to the latent danger that the Queen's lawyers might bring forward the marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 13305. Castlereagh claims to have done 'every thing in my power not only to deprive her of her rights and spotless name but of l-fe also'."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet.
Mounted to 39 x 58 cm.
Mounted on leaf 17 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Geo. IV," "Wellington," "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," and "Leach" identified in ink below image; date "10 Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of 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 : plate mark 27.8 x 43.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 44.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English