George IV, looking into a full length mirror, is startled by the sight of the likeness of his estranged wife, Caroline looking back at him over the shoulder of his reflection in the mirror. He wears a crown, his coronet and feathers discarded on the floor beside him. The carpet, chair, and table-cloth are decorated with the Royal Arms
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
George IV, looking into a full length mirror, is startled by the sight of the likeness of his estranged wife, Caroline looking back at him over the shoulder of his reflection in the mirror. He wears a crown, his coronet and feathers discarded on the floor beside him. The carpet, chair, and table-cloth are decorated with the Royal Arms
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 27 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32.9 x 23.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
George IV, looking into a full length mirror, is startled by the sight of the likeness of his estranged wife, Caroline looking back at him over the shoulder of his reflection in the mirror. He wears a crown, his coronet and feathers discarded on the floor beside him. The carpet, chair, and table-cloth are decorated with the Royal Arms
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 34.3 x 23.6 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark "Weatherley & Lane 1818"; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 2 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The figure of "Geo. IV" is identified in ink above title; date "11 Feb. 1820" is written in lower right. Typed extract of nine lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 11, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
British caricature showing bishop and other men around table toasting to looking out for themselves, regardless of justice. The Prince Regent? of England arises saying, "By holy Paul--shadows to night have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, than can the substance of ten thousand foes, arm'd all in proof and led by Caroline!!!" and "Caricature on George IV who starts awake with a vision of his parents admonishing him, while at the side politicians plot his downfall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 102 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Londondery [sic]," "Canning," "Wellington," "Eldon," "Liverpool," "Sidmouth," "Geo. III," "Pss. Charlotte," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Oct. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Published October 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Roger, who and Corvus Pegasus together had laid their heads when half seas over ..., and Second sheet attached to print 12 x 19 cm.
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Royal Mail. Between Calais and Paris -worked with post-horses, and quitting the latter every afternoon at 4 o'clock: -its return of course depending on the arrival of the mail packet at Calais ..., and Second sheet attached to print 9 x 17 cm.
"Caricature in two scenes, one with Queen Caroline receiving loyal addresses, the other with a grave-digger presenting a text to George IV sailing on his ship with Lady Conyngham."--British Museum online catalogue
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 3 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Caroline" and "Geo. IV" correctly identified in ink below image, with the female figure on the far right incorrectly identified as another depiction of "Caroline"; date "Oct. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. October 1820 by T. Dolby, 299 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Kneeling, Yachts, Rowboats, Gravedigging, Pickaxes, Flags, and Public opinion
"Caricature with the oak of England, weighed down by George IV and his mistresses swinging on its branches, being undermined by devils, watched by an appalled John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old oak in danger
Description:
Title etched below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1983,0305.33., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 59 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "1820" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published September 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Adultery, Mistresses, Trees, Oaks, Swings, Devil, Axes, Soldiers, Bridges, and Castles & palaces
"George IV (left), covered with orders, flees in terror from a figure (right) composed of rectangular slabs of different size, all inscribed 'Address', except for the head, which is inscribed 'Queen', and the feet: 'Feeling' and 'Sense'. This figure extends an arm towards the King, from its feet rays of light slant towards him. P. 19: S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, That told what a cowardly action deserves; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
S, for the shaking he felt in his nerves, that told what a cowardly action deserves ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.