Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker / Genre: Etchings England London 1820

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1. A peep into the green bag now on both houses of Parliament / [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [June 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 24. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "From slits in a huge green bag, labelled 'Evidence against the Q...n', peer the heads of five witnesses against the Queen. Round it stand puzzled and apprehensive Ministers discussing their plans. Castlereagh, on the extreme left, faces Sidmouth who stands with flexed knees holding a constable's staff, one hand on the bag. He says: "Well Gentlemen! we are pretty well in for it now--we must lie through thick and thin to do any good, and get as many as we can to do the same, or it is all up with us; what say you Doctor have you any specific for the occasion." Sidmouth: "Friend Derry I could as soon produce the Philosophers stone or Elixir of Life but if your brazen face can't bring us through it is a forlorn hope, however here is some chance in the Bag!" The head of a man crouching in the Bag looks up to say: "Yes I have some choice Tales to communicate what with Bargemen--Chambermaids--W....s and Rogues, whom I have had the honor to associate with. I shall be able to COOK up a high seasoned dish that his M.....y will relish." On the right of the Bag stands Canning, scratching his head with a puzzled expression; he says: "Curse that City Hop Merchant [Wood] he has thrown bitter into this Brewing with a vengeance! I'll try what a dash of my wit will do, or we shall be obliged to swallow it ourselves!" A pretty female head looks up at him from the Bag, to say: "I say Mr. Flashman! don't stand scratching your head in that manner but hear what I have to tell you when a woman is determined on revenge she will stick at nothing to accomplish it--turn me away indeed for a little amusement with Peter, when my husband was out I hate such scrupulous Modesty. I'll swear any thing you wish." Three faces appear at smaller slits, saying respectively: "I'll swear!"; "So will I!"; "So will I to any lie." Eldon (right) in Chancellor's wig and gown, walks off to the right, holding a rolled document: 'Rex [vers]us Regina'. He says with a meditative frown: "Well Gentlemen I shall go home and consult about it. I dont like to decide too hastily Look before you leap ought to be the Motto of my Seal" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 15139, &c.]. Behind Castlereagh (left) is a table with writing materials; at his feet are bundles of papers labelled 'Foreign Newspapers' and 'Foreign Correspondence private'.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.7 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25 x 35.5 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted (with one other print) to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Canning," and "Eldon" identified in black ink above title; date "June 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:: Pubd. June 1820 by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820., Cooke, William, 1757-1832., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Bags, Witnesses, Documents, Newspapers, and Tables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep into the green bag now on both houses of Parliament / [graphic]

2. A peep into the green bag now on both houses of Parliament / [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [June 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 24. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "From slits in a huge green bag, labelled 'Evidence against the Q...n', peer the heads of five witnesses against the Queen. Round it stand puzzled and apprehensive Ministers discussing their plans. Castlereagh, on the extreme left, faces Sidmouth who stands with flexed knees holding a constable's staff, one hand on the bag. He says: "Well Gentlemen! we are pretty well in for it now--we must lie through thick and thin to do any good, and get as many as we can to do the same, or it is all up with us; what say you Doctor have you any specific for the occasion." Sidmouth: "Friend Derry I could as soon produce the Philosophers stone or Elixir of Life but if your brazen face can't bring us through it is a forlorn hope, however here is some chance in the Bag!" The head of a man crouching in the Bag looks up to say: "Yes I have some choice Tales to communicate what with Bargemen--Chambermaids--W....s and Rogues, whom I have had the honor to associate with. I shall be able to COOK up a high seasoned dish that his M.....y will relish." On the right of the Bag stands Canning, scratching his head with a puzzled expression; he says: "Curse that City Hop Merchant [Wood] he has thrown bitter into this Brewing with a vengeance! I'll try what a dash of my wit will do, or we shall be obliged to swallow it ourselves!" A pretty female head looks up at him from the Bag, to say: "I say Mr. Flashman! don't stand scratching your head in that manner but hear what I have to tell you when a woman is determined on revenge she will stick at nothing to accomplish it--turn me away indeed for a little amusement with Peter, when my husband was out I hate such scrupulous Modesty. I'll swear any thing you wish." Three faces appear at smaller slits, saying respectively: "I'll swear!"; "So will I!"; "So will I to any lie." Eldon (right) in Chancellor's wig and gown, walks off to the right, holding a rolled document: 'Rex [vers]us Regina'. He says with a meditative frown: "Well Gentlemen I shall go home and consult about it. I dont like to decide too hastily Look before you leap ought to be the Motto of my Seal" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 15139, &c.]. Behind Castlereagh (left) is a table with writing materials; at his feet are bundles of papers labelled 'Foreign Newspapers' and 'Foreign Correspondence private'.."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 24 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 1820 by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820., Cooke, William, 1757-1832., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Bags, Witnesses, Documents, Newspapers, and Tables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep into the green bag now on both houses of Parliament / [graphic]

3. Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 39. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts for new boots, That a' you Rogues are swearing at her". The most prominent of the witnesses (cf. British Museum satires no. 13762) are Majocchi (see British Museum satires no. 13827) and Demont, see British Museum satires no. 13856. Over the doorway: 'Rogues Retreat'; at the corner of the building: 'Cotton Garden' [see British Museum satires no. 13824]. Behind (right) is the Thames. The Highlander's words are from the second verse of the song: 'Air Tibby Fowler o' the Glen'. The third of five verses: 'Fie upon the filthy louns! There's o'er mony swearing at her; Fifteen came frae German towns; There's eight and fifty swearing at her; Swearing at her, mumbling at her, Tumbling at her, canna hit her; Tawdry louns! its for new gowns, The hizzies a' are swearing at her.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image, Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 36 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 36.4 x 25.7 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1820"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 60 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "Aug. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
Subject (Topic):: Trials. litigation, etc, Ethnic stereotypes, Soldiers, Scottish, Kilts, Witnesses, and Threats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

4. Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1820]
Call Number:: 820.09.00.01+
Collection Title:: Page 39. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts for new boots, That a' you Rogues are swearing at her". The most prominent of the witnesses (cf. British Museum satires no. 13762) are Majocchi (see British Museum satires no. 13827) and Demont, see British Museum satires no. 13856. Over the doorway: 'Rogues Retreat'; at the corner of the building: 'Cotton Garden' [see British Museum satires no. 13824]. Behind (right) is the Thames. The Highlander's words are from the second verse of the song: 'Air Tibby Fowler o' the Glen'. The third of five verses: 'Fie upon the filthy louns! There's o'er mony swearing at her; Fifteen came frae German towns; There's eight and fifty swearing at her; Swearing at her, mumbling at her, Tumbling at her, canna hit her; Tawdry louns! its for new gowns, The hizzies a' are swearing at her.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image, Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.8 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 39.5 x 28.2 cm, and Printed on laid paper (with a watermark)
Publisher:: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
Subject (Topic):: Trials. litigation, etc, Ethnic stereotypes, Soldiers, Scottish, Kilts, Witnesses, and Threats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

5. Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [September 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 39. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts for new boots, That a' you Rogues are swearing at her". The most prominent of the witnesses (cf. British Museum satires no. 13762) are Majocchi (see British Museum satires no. 13827) and Demont, see British Museum satires no. 13856. Over the doorway: 'Rogues Retreat'; at the corner of the building: 'Cotton Garden' [see British Museum satires no. 13824]. Behind (right) is the Thames. The Highlander's words are from the second verse of the song: 'Air Tibby Fowler o' the Glen'. The third of five verses: 'Fie upon the filthy louns! There's o'er mony swearing at her; Fifteen came frae German towns; There's eight and fifty swearing at her; Swearing at her, mumbling at her, Tumbling at her, canna hit her; Tawdry louns! its for new gowns, The hizzies a' are swearing at her.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image, Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Mounted on page 39 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching ; sheet 17.6 x 26 cm., On laid paper, hand-colored., and Imperfect; sheet has been cut in half, with bottom portion (17.3 x 20.7 cm) containing the verses mounted separately beside upper portion containing the engraved plate.
Publisher:: Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
Subject (Topic):: Trials. litigation, etc, Ethnic stereotypes, Soldiers, Scottish, Kilts, Witnesses, and Threats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cary Brunswick o' the Guelph [graphic].

6. Justice [graphic].

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 August 1820]
Call Number:: 820.08.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Justice stands on a small rocky plateau surrounded by waves. She holds up a pair of scales; on one scale (left) stands the Queen, noble and dignified, in royal robes, the crown at her feet. She far outweighs the other scale, on which is a huge green bag: 'Ev[ide]nce a[gainst] [t]he [Que]en'; Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Canning stand round it, with a serpent as pendant to the crown. The Queen holds out a scroll headed 'Righ[t] ... of ... Queen' and an open book: 'Liturgy'. Castlereagh holds out to her a scroll headed '50,000 pr An'; he says: "Another Bag (now almost ready) Will make the Balance firm & steady, And certain other pond'rous stuff Will make the Lady light enough." Sidmouth flourishes a clyster-pipe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849). Canning stands behind the Bag on the extreme right; he says: "I wish to God that I was out Of this infernal mounting Scale, For plainly I percieve a rout, And that the Lady must prevail." The Queen: "Vipers Go! I can't endure you, You wrong me I assure you, Yet still I spurn the wrong, and view, With calmness all your Bag can do." Below the title : '"Do thou inspire the stroke "With prevalence divine - as thine the wrong, "Vengeance and punishment to thee belong; "The injur'd state of Innocece [sic] restore, "Crush the bold insults of aspiring pow'r, "Shine like thy radiant source, and mak the world adore.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: The new bon ton magazine, or, Telescope of the times. London : Printed for J. Johnston ..., 1818-1821., and Mounted to 36 x 27 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Subject (Topic):: Politicians, Justice, Scales, Emblems, and Bags
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Justice [graphic].

7. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [28 June 1820]
Call Number:: 820.06.28.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Mountain in labour
Description:: Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic):: Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]

8. Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [28 June 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Green Bag, see British Museum Satires No. 13735, &c., is transformed into a hillock covered with grass and foliage, but keeping the contour of a sack; it is inscribed in large letters: 'Commons Green Bag'. On the left it is watched by a group of Ministers, on the right by the Queen and her supporters. The foremost of the latter is Brougham, in wig and gown, who points a rod inscribed 'Queens Attorney General' towards the bag; a mouse crouches in a little hollow at its base. Under his arm is a large document inscribed 'Resolution ..... [Ma]jesty'. The Queen, her hands extended towards him, turns to a second barrister who stands in back-view, saying, "I should make a brave Queen to be frightened at a Mouse." The barrister, Denman, the Queen's Solicitor-General, answers: "A good Conscience is a Wall of Brass, your Majesty will not shrink at a Royal Tiger." On the extreme right, Wood, in an alderman's gown, is speaking to a lady, evidently Lady Ann Hamilton. On the extreme left is a curtain from behind which the King, his head and most of his person being hidden, speaks to Lord Eldon (who like his colleagues is gaping at the bag-mountain): "Why Bags! what's all this!" Eldon, in wig and gown, holding a large document and the Purse of the Great Seal, answers: "The Cat's out of the Bag Sire thats all." Canning exclaims: "Pro-di-gi-ous! as my Friend Domine Sampson [in Scott's 'Guy Mannering', 1815] says!" Castlereagh, very scared, says to Sidmouth: "Doctor could you not prevented [sic] this untimely Birth!" Sidmouth stoops forward, squirting a clyster-pipe at the mouse; in his right hand, like a doctor's gold-headed cane, is a constable's staff. He exclaims: "A Delivery without Nurse or Doctor by Heaven." From his pocket hangs a paper: 'Foreign Circular' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13282]. After the title: 'When mountains cry out, people may well be excused the apprehension of some prodigious Birth, this was the case the Public were all at their wits end, to consider what would be the Issue, and instead of the dreadfull Monster that they expected, out comes at last a contemptible Mouse--The Moral. Much ado about Nothing.-- Reflection. What are all the extravagant attempts and enterprises of weak Men, but morals more or less of this Fable what are mighty pretences without consideration or effect, but the vapours of a distemper, that like sickly Dreams have neither issue nor conection. and the dissapointment is not all neither, for men make themselves ridiculous instead of Terrible, when this Tympany shall come to end in a Blast, and a Mountain to bring forth a Mouse, vide L'Estrange's Esop.--'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Mountain in labour
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top edge., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24.8 x 35.2 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 29 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV," "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Brougham," "Queen Caroline," and "Denman" identified in black ink below image; date "28 June 1820" added in lower right corner. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 28th, 1820, by Richd. Fores, 74 Leadenhall St., Aldgate
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844
Subject (Topic):: Bags, Draperies, Wigs, Judges, Robes, Medical equipment & supplies, and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Magic - the green-bag metamorphosed, or, The mountain in labour [graphic]

9. Pastime at the Pavilion, or, A peep into the Chinese temple [graphic]

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:: [May 1820]
Call Number:: Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Caricature of George IV in the Brighton Pavilion, sitting on a sofa next to Marchioness Conyngham and groping her; he has an amourous look on his face, while she looks unamused. A portrait of Queen Caroline hangs on the wall behind them, her face obscured by a purse(?) hanging from above the picture frame. An older woman (Lady Warwick?) stands on the right by an open door, glancing over sideways at the scene and saying "I shall retire: is Warwick come to this? Oh this Cunning-- poor Hertford, ho[w] I pity her well may she exclaim false Lothario." Roses are seen through the doorway on the right; a round table with decanters of 'Brandy' is seen on the left, in front of a large window with curtains
Alternative Title:: Peep into the Chinese temple
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 12 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The figures of "Marchioness Cunningham" and "Lady Warwick" are identified in brown ink in lower margin. Date "May 1820" written in lower right, in black ink.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 1820 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Sofas, Bottles, Alcoholic beverages, Doors & doorways, Roses, Windows, and Draperies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Pastime at the Pavilion, or, A peep into the Chinese temple [graphic]