The Hampshire green bag opened, or, The secret spring of ultra-loyal addresses, discovered and exposed [graphic].

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Title: The Hampshire green bag opened, or, The secret spring of ultra-loyal addresses, discovered and exposed [graphic].
Alternative Title: Secret spring of ultra-loyal addresses, discovered and exposed
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [January 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and published by S.W. Fores, 41, Piccadilly
Abstract: "Heading to a printed broadside. Four well-dressed men hold open a large bag, resting on the ground, in which stands a fifth, in profile to the right, who says indignantly to one of the openers: "Oh here you are--now for the Truth, the whole Truth & nothing but the Truth, by whose authority did you make Tools of the Clergy, to create divesions [sic] among their Parishione's [sic], & become sources of discord instead of Peace Makers." The other draws back disconcerted, answering: "Indeed it was not my master but the Pit Club, to whom the Nation is so much indebted." The first speaker rejoins: "Yes to whome the Nation is indebted 9 Hundred Millions." A slanting blast issues from the bag to the left, carrying into the air Wellington astride a cannon, who turns round to look anxiously down at the bag, and is followed by a cannon supported on clerical arms and legs and ridden by a bishop. The latter says: "my Minor Cannon are of little use." A little man (? Canning) runs in the blast, below Wellington. Smoke surrounds the bag. The text is the speech of Mr. Marsh at the Hampshire meeting on 12 Jan., when petitions to both Houses in favour of the Queen were resolved on. The plate illustrates a passage from the facetious printed speech: 'Besides the Ultras had a terrible weight of metal for the fight. They could muster all the great guns from Portsmouth; and if these did not do execution enough, they had at hand the little canons of Winchester.'"--British Museum online catalog
Description: Title from letterpress text below image.
Attribution to William Heath and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Five lines of text beneath title: See the following witty and elucidating speech of Mr. Marsh, at the Hampshire meeting, January 12, which was attended by 6000 persons ...
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Two columns of letterpress text at bottom, beginning: Mr. Marsh came forward, and was received with great applause. ...
"Price one shilling"--Following imprint statement.
Watermark: J L 1817.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 42 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "12 Jan. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of fourteen 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 : image 18.4 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 38.1 x 24.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English