The knave and the Queen!!, or, Twelfth night, 1821 [graphic].

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Title: The knave and the Queen!!, or, Twelfth night, 1821 [graphic].
Alternative Title: Twelfth night, 1821
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [February 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published February 1821 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Abstract: A design in two panels, with George IV depicted on the left and Queen Caroline on the right. The King sits in a chair and holds up a large playing card (a King of Clubs), while Castlereagh holds a disk-shaped hat labeled "Cake" and topped with the head of a bishop over his head. Liverpool and Sidmouth are seen playing cards in the background, and Eldon is behind the King at a table holding a glass; full bottles of alcohol are on the table and empty ones on the floor. In contrast, the regally-dressed Queen sits in a more ornate chair with a crown on the back, holding a scepter in her left hand and holding up a large playing card (the Queen of Hearts) with her right hand; Alderman Wood stands behind her exclaiming "The Queen of Hearts by Heaven!!!" Three women watch her with admiration from a table in the background, upon which a disk-shaped hat labeled "Popularity" and topped with hearts and a small crown sits; another man on the far right of the design says "Bravo!! Bravo!!"
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 57 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Liverpool," "Sidmouth," "Castlereagh," "Geo. IV," "Eldon," "Q. Caroline," and "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image; date "14 Feb. 1821" written in lower right.
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 of 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 24.8 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 35.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English