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Description

Title

The stool of repentance; the scorn of the world!! [graphic].

Contributor

Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.

Published / Created

[10 January 1821]

Publication Place

London

Publisher

Published Jany. 10, 1821, by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand

Abstract

Print shows personifications of Europe, Africa, America, and Asia pointing their fingers at a blushing Britannia paying penance for corruption atop a stool of repentence along with Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; King George IV; Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool; Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh); Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. A crowd of mostly women is gathered under the stool, some with glasses and bowls

"Political caricature on the Royal Divorce: George IV and Caroline sit with the cabinet on a stool, mocked by the four Continents, while Britannia blushes; below a waterfall of Corruption falls to pollute Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue

Description

Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1820.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 40 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Liverpool," "Wellington," "Q. Caroline," "Geo. IV," "Sidmouth," and "Londondery [sic]" identified in ink within 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 47.5 x 29.5 cm

Extent of Digitization

This object has been completely digitized.

Language

English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Cartoons (Commentary) British 1820-1830
Etchings Hand-colored 1820-1830
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1820
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Westminster Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic): Britannia (Symbolic character)
Symbols
Corruption
Punishment devices
Punishment & torture
Politicians
Embarassment
Bowls (Tableware)
Drinking vessels
Subjects: 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
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 > Caricatures and cartoons
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Westminster Palace (London, England)
Symbols > 1820-1830
Corruption > England > 1820-1830
Punishment devices > England > 1820-1830
Punishment & torture > England > 1820-1830
Politicians > Great Britain
Embarassment
Bowls (Tableware)
Drinking vessels
British > 1820-1830
Hand-colored > 1820-1830
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
J. Whatman > 1820
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: 17470079
Object ID (OID): 33245975

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