A modest address to a certain great assembly

Description

Title: A modest address to a certain great assembly
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1820]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed and published by S.W. Fores, 41, Piccadilly
Description: Title from text in letterpress.
Text consists of verses in praise of Canning for his loyalty to the Queen.
"The following address was composed by a nobleman who resides near Guildford, Surrey--not the noble lord, who declared the bill of pains and penalties ought to have been thrown out, but had not the courage to vote against it. The noble author of the address was one who was unable to take his seat, from indisposition."
The illustration, with the etched title "A Canning address" (with the "u" of "Cunning" scored through and an "a" etched above), is an unsigned etching of George Canning speaking a eulogy of and bowing to Queen Caroline.
"Price one shilling."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Printed on wove paper with watermark: Fellows 1817.
Mounted on leaf 93 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Canning" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image. Blanks within the printed verses have been completed in ink, spelling out all of the censored names and words; the note "Canning resigd. Dec. 1820" has been written beside the first occurrence of his name in the first column.
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 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 40 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English