In pity give three cheers! A parody on The beggar's petition. [graphic]

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Title: In pity give three cheers! A parody on The beggar's petition. [graphic]
Published / Created: [1821?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Heading to printed verses. George IV has just come ashore, with a boat seen on the coast behind him and the royal yacht out in the water beyond; he carries a scepter in his right hand a large green bag on his back, the ties of which resemble antlers or horns above his head. A group of men with donkey ears greet him on the left; one man holds a flag showing two cows, and another a long document with the heading "Cows." Behind the King, on the right edge of the design, three men in uniform look on.
Description: Title printed in letterpress below image.
Date from manuscript annotation beneath lower right corner of image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight stanzas of verse in three columns below title, in letterpress: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose gilded yacht has borne him to your shore ...
Four lines of text, printed in italics, at bottom of third column: The above stanzas were lately picked up on the shore near Cowes. The lines that are left out were illegible, apparently from the manuscript, which was torn, having been used in keeping a pair of refractory whiskers in good order.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil below image; date "1821" 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 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 : image 10.6 x 20 cm, on sheet 18.9 x 22.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English