"Lord Conyngham stands by the counter of Benbow's shop holding out an open book to the shopman with a terrified gesture: "Mr Benbow, Pray who is this!" Benbow, behind the counter, touches the antlered figure of British Museum Satires No. 14029, and one of the fat ladies, answering, "This is Lady H----d and this is Lady C----m." His right hand rests on a pile of caricatures on the counter. A grinning shopman behind the L-shaped counter (right) holds up two fingers to simulate horns above Lord Conyngham's head. The walls of the shop are lined with books; by the counter three bills are displayed, one above the other: [1] 'Just Published 1s 6d Sultan Sham and his Seven Wives' [British Museum Satires No. 14029]; [2] 'Cobbett's Register Sold here also Peep at the Peers' [? British Museum Satires No. 14108]; [3] 'The K. the determiner of the Q'; [4] 'Queen & her Pawns agains the King and his Pecc' [sic, British Museum Satires No. 13946]."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the same design
Alternative Title:
Cuckold Cunningham frightened at his wife's caricature
Description:
Title etched below image; the word "Cuckold" is partially scored through., Date from that assigned in the British Museum catalogue to another version of the same design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four numbered stanzas of verse below title: 1. Twas the eye of a cucold [sic] of fame and renown ..., For another version of the same design, etched by J.L. Marks and published by W. Benbow, see No. 14030 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 90 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and "Ld. Conyngham" identified in pencil below image; date "1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834., and Benbow, William, 1787-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Stores & shops, Interiors, Counters, Caricatures, Bookcases, and Books
"Waithman stands in his shop, in profile to the right, holding a yard-stick of 2 yards, like a wand of office. He wears black court dress, with black bag attached to his short hair or coat-collar, ruffles, knee-breeches, and sword, his alderman's chain round his shoulders. From his coat-tails project a barbed tail and a roll of fringed Shawls. The right leg terminates in a cloven hoof. At his feet are rolls of Shawls and H. Ell Wide Stuff [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14194]. A long counter extends across the shop behind him, with a fashionably dressed young shopman rolling material. On the wall behind is a row of neat drawers below a shelf on which are rolls of textiles. The head seems to be copied from Dighton's earlier portrait, British Museum Satires No. 13024."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 105 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Waithman" identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "1 Sept. 1821" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of six 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):
Waithman, Robert, 1764-1833 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Interiors, Fabric shops, Counters, Sheriffs, Rulers (Instruments), Shawls, and Textiles
