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- Published / Created:
- [12 December 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print showing George IV, horned and with wings which are spread to provide a protective, umbrella-like shell for his supporters, a gouty foot well wrapped, a ribbon around the other labeled "Infidelity - Honi Soit," holding a bottle labeled "Peoples Tears," and sitting with his mistress, "Care-away Cunningham" i.e., Lady Conyngham. In the background, to the left is a line of armed cavalry "Civil Gentleman or a Rod in Pickle," at center sits Britannia covering her face in shame, and on the right, beneath "A Storm gathering," are huddled "The People."
- Alternative Title:
- Royal cock and chickens and Father of his people!!!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 31 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Lady Conyngham" identified in ink below image; date "12 Dec. 1820" written in lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- Published Decr. 12, 1820, by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character), Adultery, Politics & government, Gout, Bandages, Horns (Anatomy), Wings (Anatomy), Bottles, Mistresses, and Cavalry
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The r-l cock and chickens, or, The father of his people!!! [graphic].