Old nursing song in imitation of Dean Swift. [graphic]

Description

Title: Old nursing song in imitation of Dean Swift. [graphic]
Contributor: Langham, I. M., active approximately 1803-1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately November 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for and published by Langham, 3, Red Lion Street, Holborn
Abstract: Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. The King, a whiskered child, sits on the floor of a nursery and plays with Sidmouth, who sits in a chair. Around them on the floor lie toys, along with papers inscribed "Bill of Pains," "Bergami Blister," and "Loyal Ads." A fireplace is seen in the background on the left, above which hangs a portrait of "Mrs. Q." Through a window on the right a street sign "To St. Pauls" is visible
Description: Title printed in letterpress below image.
Date from manuscript annotations below image and in lower right corner of sheet.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Here the Q---n goes up, up, up, Up towards a crown, oh ...
Publisher's advertisement below imprint: And may be had at all caricature shops. N.B. Just published, price 1s. - The contented peers, or King's own.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 19 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Sidmouth" and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image, under which duplicate identifications are written in pencil. Date "abt. Nov. 1820" added in ink below plate mark; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner of sheet.
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 : image 15.6 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 38.3 x 24 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English