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- Published / Created:
- [October 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "George IV stands full-face on a cloud above the Pavilion; his legs wide apart; under his right foot is the word 'Decency'; by the left, 'Decorum'. An irradiated crescent moon inscribed 'Carolina' covers his face between mouth and forehead, its horns pointing upwards, above the apex of his curled wig. In his right hand is a large Green Bag (see No. 13735, &c.) inscribed 'Slander'. In the left he holds up a bottle of 'Noyau'. Across the base of the design stretches the east front of the Pavilion (see Summerson, 'John Nash', 1935, plate x) with the word 'Brighton'. This is backed by the sea, with ships; the horizon is just below the King's cloud, which curves upwards, framing the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Moon passing the Sun's disc!!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 99 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "Oct. 1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
- Publisher:
- Published October 1820 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Clouds, Bags, Libel & slander, Moon, Eclipses, Bottles, Sailing ships, and Official residences
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A total eclipse, or, The Moon passing the Sun's disc!! [graphic].
