"Alderman Wood, a dumpy figure with a large head, lies on his back, arms and legs in air, with mud splashing up all round him. He has fallen from a high wall adjoining the gate (left) of Brandenbourg House [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13852]. An angry lion (? in stone), with tail erect, stands on the wall by the gate, looking down at him. Two scrolls hang precariously from the coping: 1821 A Baronet, 1821 A Lord, 1823 A Duke-- 1824 * * * *, 1825 *****. and Expectations.--Wardenship of St Catherines [see British Museum Satires No. 14131, &c], Lord Mayor for Life, Prime Minister, Commander in Chief. A scroll inscribed Cornwall Mines is falling. On the ground beside him are two papers: The Alderman's Rise-- Errend Boy. Shopman. Bagman. Alderman &c &c &c &c &c &c &c, and: Old Wood to be Sold Cheap [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14147]. Through the iron gate are seen the trees and grounds of the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1821., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 106 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image; date "19 Sep. 1821" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of seventeen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Humpty Dumpty (Fictitious character), Municipal officials, Falling, Mud, Walls, Gates, Lions, and Scrolls (Information artifacts)
"A fashionably dressed man rides a stag with the head and bust of a pretty young woman with dark ringlets and roses in her hair. A lean German runs after him, holding out a pair of large antlers, saying, O, ho! my-lor, here de Horn my-lor--she friget [sic] de horn, take dem, A, ha! par-blue, by Gar I vil have de damage. The rider, turning his head in profile, and warding off the gift, answers: No. No. Baron, you may keep them yourself, and welcome, the horns become you; my dear can do without them. The German wears flat fur cap with peak, tight fur-bordered coat. The other wears bell-shaped top-hat, blue frogged coat, and white trousers. His rein is a scarf inscribed £2,500 round his mount's chest. The animal, its hind-legs splashing the German with mud, reaches a high wall fringed with spikes, inscribed Bancus Regis, resembling that of the King's Bench prison, but here indicating the Court of King's Bench. On it, below a large inscription: Hunts Matchless Blacking [see British Museum Satires No. 15150] are many bills: [1] Coy of Sussex stolen or strayed a handsome Doe of the Roebuck breed, with black hair and scut, is supposed to be stolen by some poacher. Her owner a poor foreigner says her value is £10.000--. [2] Just Published--Crim Cram. [3] The Prodigal a New farce. [4] --Theatre, Chip of the Old Block or the Amours of one of the Peers. [5] Richmond Steam Boat the Venus with excellent accomodation & a high Poop:-- 16 Horse power. [6] Astley's, The Dejected Baron after which Mr Ducrow will manage His Celebrated Horse Pegassus. [7] Try Dr Eady [a notorious quack]. [8] Sermons By the Revd Mr Irvine. [9] Just Published, A Moral Lesson, or the Horn Book for the rising generation by a young lady."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on the suit of crim. con. brought by Michael Henry, Baron de Robeck, against Lord Sussex Lennox (1802-74). His wife, Mary Margaret, 2nd d. of Valentine Browne (who had married him in 1820 when under fifteen), married Lennox, Apr. 1828, on the dissolution of her first marriage."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably published by Thomas McLean, who was located at 26 Haymarket in 1827. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 for the auther [sic], 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Name):
Lennox, Sussex, Lord, 1802-1874. and Robeck, John Michael Henry Fock, Baron de, approximately 1790-1856.
"The King (right) and Queen (left) hurl mud at each other. By the former (who wears jack-boots) is a bucket of 'Italian Filth' [see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.]; the Queen's (similar) bucket is inscribed 'Filth from St Giles's, St James, Portman Sqr, Hamilton Place [the Conynghams' address, see British Museum Satires No. 13847] &c &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 22.3 x 32.1 cm., Printed on laid paper with the watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored., Window mounted to 23.5 x 33.5 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 79 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "5 Sept. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 5th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
