The one eyed coronation [graphic].

Description

Title: The one eyed coronation [graphic].
Alternative Title: Frontispiece to The one-eyed coronation, or, A peep into Westminster Abbey
Creator: Marks, John Lewis, attributed name
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [July 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A brandy-faced Archbishop places a large crown on the head of George IV, who sits in profile to the right on a double coronation chair, the seats back to back; the seat on the left is filled with a huge bottle of Brandy (here pertaining to the King not the Queen as in British Museum Satires No. 14175, &c). The coronation is described as 'One-eyed' (as in British Museum Satires No. 14193) because of the Queen's exclusion, see British Museum Satires No. 14196, &c. See British Museum No. 14199, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Tentative attribution to J.L. Marks and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Frontispiece to a satirical pamphlet entitled: The one-eyed coronation, or, A peep into Westminster Abbey.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 95 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 "July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of one line from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below 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 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 21.9 x 13.8 cm, on sheet 22.5 x 14.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English