A serio comic extravaganza lately performd. at a great house entitled Conglomoration [graphic].

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Title: A serio comic extravaganza lately performd. at a great house entitled Conglomoration [graphic].
Alternative Title: Serio comic extravaganza lately performed at a great house entitled Conglomoration
Seriocomic extravaganza lately performed at a great house entitled Conglomoration
Contributor: King, E., active 1819-1831, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 December 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Dec. 16, 1820, by E. King, Chancery Lane
Abstract: "Satire on George IV who starts back as a long petition is presented to him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: 1818.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 33 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Wellington," "Sidmouth," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; figure of "Wood" identified in pencil. Date "16 Dec. 1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
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 25.1 x 34.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English