"Death, a skeleton with the head of the King, crowned and wearing royal robes, stands full face; in the right hand he holds up a paper: 'Pains and Penalties'; in the left hand is a javelin. Round the left leg coils a serpent, in place of the Garter, inscribed 'Honi Pense'. Under the left foot is a paper: 'Divorce'. The figure is framed by heavy clouds, from which dart lightning flashes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Prosecutor of Her Majesty
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of quoted text below title: "What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on? Who shrouds this mysterious being, this retiring phantom, this uncertain shape?" Mr. Brougham, vide Times Octr. 20th., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching and soft-ground etching ; sheet 34.9 x 24.3 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 1 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "Oct. 1820" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of eleven lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Skeletons, Crowns, Robes, Spears, Snakes, and Lightning
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
George IV, with the body a rooster, stands on the "Green Bag" of evidence and looks back over his shoulder at the Queen; from his beak is a speech bubble reading "Rejected Bill," while an eagle with the words "Public Disapprobation" on its wings snatches the crown off his head. To the right of the king are two hens with human faces, likely representing George IV's mistresses. Queen Caroline, likewise with the body of a hen, stands triumphantly atop a pillar inscribed "The Law and the People"; she wears a crown and stands in a column of light that descends from the heavens. Two axes lean against the pillar, while the sword and scales of Justice rest at its base. Ships are seen sailing on the ocean in the background; the Royal Pavilion at Brighton is recognizable on the shore to the right
Alternative Title:
Royal hen, and the dunghill cock
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 10 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "Nov. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published November 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Chickens, Roosters, Eagles, Bags, Crowns, Mistresses, Sailing ships, Official residences, Axes, Justice, Scales, and Daggers & swords
"Queen Caroline reaches the top step of a flimsy double-ladder, pushed by the foremost of a train of gnome-like Jacobins who scramble up behind her or wait (right) to ascend. She holds a blazing firebrand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14145) emitting clouds of smoke, with which she tries to reach the royal crown (irradiated), which rests on a cushion and Bible, on the summit of a pillar representing the Constitution. A mitre and crosier are carved on the pillar which is spiralled with a band inscribed (reading upwards) 'Commons', 'Lords', 'King'. On the square base are the equally balanced scales of Justice. The Queen wears a feathered hat and an enormously long cloak, under which the Radicals on the ladder are sheltering. These wear caps of Liberty (or Folly) with tricolour cockades; one has a dagger, one a pike, one (Hunt) a bludgeon, one holds the shaft of a banner, inscribed 'Democracy Republic', topped by a cap of Liberty. The rungs of the ladder are: 'Spa Fields Riot'; 'Smithfield', Hunt climbs from one to the other; 'Hunts Procession'; 'Peter[loo]'; 'Cato Stre[et', see No. 13707, &c.]; 'Queens Arrival' [see No. 13730, &c.]; 'Radical Address' [see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.]; 'Mob Government' [the top]. The back of the ladder (reading downwards): 'Revolution'; 'Anarchy'; 'Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from British Museum catalogue. For an earlier state published October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine, see no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Companion print to: The funeral pile., and Mounted on page 4 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Spa Fields Riot, London, England, 1816, Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Capes (Clothing), and Liberty cap
"The King stands waist-deep in a broad-based Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), holding up his arms, and exclaiming: "A Rat! A Rat! my Kingdom for a Rat!!!" Huge rats climb up the bag and nibble at it, others run towards it, or emerge from holes. Ministers are imprisoned in the bag with the King, and struggle to get out. Near the base (left) emerge the head and arms of Castlereagh; he says: "Knaw away my fine fellows and extricate me." Above him is Sidmouth, crying: "I wish I could find some hole large enough to creep out at." Eldon's head and hands emerge from three holes; he asks: "Was the Pillory ever made for me? will no Rat assist me? let me out to consider of it." Above him is Liverpool, saying: "We shall certainly be all smother'd in this Infernal Bag." The Devil is between Castlereagh and Eldon, shovel in hand; he says: "I can make a hole for myself to creep out at." Each rat has an inscription: 'Church' and 'Corruption' are on the bag, flanking the King. Other nibblers are 'Pension', 'Place', 'Sinacure' [sic], and 'Dr Slop' [Stoddart, i.e. the 'New Times']; near the last is the 'Courier', and behind (right) the 'Vice C--' [Leach]. John Bull and Mrs. Bull, a farmer and his wife, stand on the left and right; John holds the chain of his savage dog, still attached to its kennel but eager to get at the rats; he says: "Odzooks, I'll let my Dog loose and worry them all." Mrs. Bull points angrily, and shouts: "Destroy the Vermin John--let our Dog loose.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How to get out of the bag
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 54 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Londonderry," "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," and "Eldon" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "Aug. 1820" written in ink in lower right. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted above print.
Publisher:
Published August 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
Leach, John, John Bull (Symbolic character), Rats, Bags, Politicians, Devil, Shovels, Dogs, and Kennels
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Second in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 2"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 14 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Second in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 2"--Upper right corner., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 12.3 x 17.3 cm, on sheet 12.8 x 17.7 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with two other prints) on leaf 9 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and With pencil annotation "of the Queens Trial" following title.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 4"--Upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 14 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Fourth in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 4"--Upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching ; sheet 12.6 x 17.4 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored. Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted (with two other prints) on leaf 9 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
"Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. A sequel to No. 13764. George IV, a whiskered infant, lies feverish and fractious in a cot decorated with Chinese figures and hung with bells. He is surrounded by Ministers. Sidmouth, holding a doctor's gold-headed cane, feels his pulse, saying: "Dredful sympton's [sic] a raging Pulse." A bottle labelled 'Dolbys Carminative' (as in British Museum Satires No. 13764) projects from his pocket. Liverpool, with pap-boat and spoon, says: "I thought how it would be, that Foriegn Emetick has been too strong for his weak Nerves." Castlereagh, standing between two lawyers, puts a hand on the Babe's forehead, saying: "how hot his poor dear head feels." One lawyer (? Copley) tries to push back a leg within the cot, saying: "If he could but stand on his Legs once more we might have hopes, but I'm afraid he has Caught the Rickets--" The other (? Gifford): "A sae [sic] voyage by all means Brou--ms drops should have been taken with more caution as they are very Searching." An old woman (left) holds out a ribbon: "Here's the R--y--l Leading Strings," while an apothecary (right) using a large pestle and mortar says: "O! what a fogo what a mixture what a mess." Behind him are shelves ranged with druggist's jars. In the foreground toys are scattered, chiefly military, as in British Museum Satires No. 13764; they are: 'Royal Play things'. There is also a rocking-horse on which are two toy lancers. In front of the fire napkins are hanging, and on the mantelshelf are medicine-bottles and a doll. In the foreground is an overturned child's commode, the pan inscribed 'Royal Stole'. ...."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Great babe taken ill
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Attribution to Robert Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Nine stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Run, Sid-th, run; send for a nurse, the R-y-l Babe's quite ill ..., "Price one shilling. Entered at Stationers' Hall"--Below imprint., Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: N.B. More good things in preparation, by the same author., Watermark: Gater 1818., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 38 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Liverpool," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV," and "Castlereagh" identified in black ink below image; date "July 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. Blanks within the letterpress text have been completed in ink, spelling out the censored names "Sidmouth," "Brougham," "Liverpool," and "Sidmouth" (a second time), as well as the word "Royal" in two places. Typed extract of four lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Published by C.E. Pritchard, Islington Green
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political satire, English, Cots, Bells, Sick children, Staffs (Sticks), Lawyers, Pharmacists, Medicines, Rocking chairs, Toys, and Fireplaces
