The dream

Description

Title: The dream
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
Published / Created: [1820?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street
Description: Title from item.
Etched illustration by George Cruikshank, entitled "Rumjumdildopunt's Dream!!!", is printed at top beneath imprint; it depicts George IV having a bad dream concerning Queen Caroline, with the Queen and the ghost of George III appearing at his bedside, and demons seen flying above the headboard. With letterpress description of the dream printed below.
Letterpress text, printed in two columns, beginning: It was Thursday morning, the watchman of the Mall was hoarsely bawling the hour of five ...
"Price sixpence"--Following imprint.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 8 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "1820" written in ink beside etched illustration; "Nov. 1820" added in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Additional ink annotations identify the public figures (politicians, royal mistresses, and Royal Family members) alluded to in the text.
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 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 34 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English