"Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in an armchair, directed towards left, head in profile to left, his right elbow on a table covered with a tablecloth bearing coat of arms; his right hand supporting his chin; dressed in ermine-trimmed robes; in the background on the left, partial view of an organ; lettered state, after hair and beard shortened."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of King George III
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Verses etched below image: When the ear heard him, then it blessed him and when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him ... but his name liveth evermore., and Dedication etched at bottom of plate: To the British nation, this print of the father of his people is most respectually dedicated by Samuel W. Reynolds.
A mock coat of arms, perhaps for George IV, that possibly served as the tailpiece or other illustration to a verse-satire on the trial of Queen Caroline. The shield is vase-shaped and includes a mug of beer at center, tents and cannons on either side of the mug, a settee below the mug, three ships at top, scales of justice with "vice" outweighing "virtue" below the ships, and a ram at bottom. Surmounting the shield is a donkey with a owl on its back, the owl wearing a tall conical hat; the donkey stands upon a "log", a volume with "bill" on its spine, a chess board, playing cards, sheets of paper labeled "address", and a cross above which "liturgy petition" is written. Plants are seen on either side of shield; below the shield are banners in which the Latin phrases "furiis in censa feror" and "vir tutis sub umbra viti um" are written
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and publication information from potentially related prints that were published by Humphrey and are attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue. See nos. 13948-13972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Possibly a plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 12 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted with eight sheets of letterpress text, for letters R-Z, meant to face the corresponding plates in bound copies of Horrida bella.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Coats of arms, Donkeys, Owls, Books, Playing cards, Board games, Scales, Drinking vessels, Beer, Tents, Cannons, Ships, Sheep, and Couches
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of publication extrapolated from book., Plate from: Grosette, H.W. Raymond and Agnes, or, The bleeding nun: of Lindenberg : an interesting melo-drama, in two acts ... London : Duncombe, [182-?]., Respective caption text below each of four scenes on print: Baptiste preparing to murder Don Raymond. Page 15 ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1824.
Title page with an image of an artist riding on the back of a crow, paint brush in hand, with a sign hanging from his neck. The sign is decorated with a painter's palate and is inscribed: Nous prions fous les oiseaux grands et petits de laisser librement passer Roger Bookem allant de Douvres à Paris
Description:
Title from text incorporated into image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., 'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Secondary sheet attached to print with title: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro ..., and Secondary sheet 10 x 14 cm.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, collector
Published / Created:
[ca. 1835?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G (Oversize)
Container / Volume:
v.1
Image Count:
226
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of 256 mostly British satirical prints and broadsides commenting on the scandalous relations between Queen Caroline and King George IV including those commenting on the "Queen Caroline Affair" of 1820, purportedly assembled by William Gladstone and mounted in chronological order in two albums. Many of the prints and broadsides are annotated apparently in W.E. Gladstone's hand, with the exact month and date of publication and the identities of the person being satirized. Later pencil annotations have been added to mounting sheet along with extracts from the description of the print from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, these later annotations probably added by the 20th-century owner of the volumes, Ernest R. Gee
Description:
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician for over 60 years, including 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as well as 12 years as Chancellor of the Exchequer., Title devised by cataloger., Laid in volume 1, two plates removed from Impartial historical narrative of those momentous events ...r 1816 to 1823 (London: Robert Bowyer, 1823). 1) Fac simile of the autographs of the royal family: Also of those peers who voted during the investigation of the charges against Queen Caroline in the House of Lords, 1820. 2) Autographs of those peers who voted during the investigation of the charges against Queen Caroline 1820 ... ., Also laid in volume 1, one leaf (pages 39-40) of an unidentifed work that includes a table: List of names on the two engraved plates of autographs., One French print included: L'amour ainsi qu la nature n'connaissent pas ces distances lá / by Williams Jonhson., Date based on latest annotation in the album., and Bound in later 19th- or early 20th-century black morocco, boards and spine elaborately tooled in gilt.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898, collector
Published / Created:
[ca. 1835?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G (Oversize)
Container / Volume:
v.2
Image Count:
222
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of 256 mostly British satirical prints and broadsides commenting on the scandalous relations between Queen Caroline and King George IV including those commenting on the "Queen Caroline Affair" of 1820, purportedly assembled by William Gladstone and mounted in chronological order in two albums. Many of the prints and broadsides are annotated apparently in W.E. Gladstone's hand, with the exact month and date of publication and the identities of the person being satirized. Later pencil annotations have been added to mounting sheet along with extracts from the description of the print from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, these later annotations probably added by the 20th-century owner of the volumes, Ernest R. Gee
Description:
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician for over 60 years, including 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as well as 12 years as Chancellor of the Exchequer., Title devised by cataloger., Laid in volume 1, two plates removed from Impartial historical narrative of those momentous events ...r 1816 to 1823 (London: Robert Bowyer, 1823). 1) Fac simile of the autographs of the royal family: Also of those peers who voted during the investigation of the charges against Queen Caroline in the House of Lords, 1820. 2) Autographs of those peers who voted during the investigation of the charges against Queen Caroline 1820 ... ., Also laid in volume 1, one leaf (pages 39-40) of an unidentifed work that includes a table: List of names on the two engraved plates of autographs., One French print included: L'amour ainsi qu la nature n'connaissent pas ces distances lá / by Williams Jonhson., Date based on latest annotation in the album., and Bound in later 19th- or early 20th-century black morocco, boards and spine elaborately tooled in gilt.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"Husband and wife dressing in a bedroom, the tent-shaped bed-curtains forming a background. The woman is thin and has a mole on her face, the man broad, but their deficiencies are similar. She stands (left), about to raise her shift and adjust false posteriors. A false bust, false teeth, and wig, simulating natural curls, are on the table behind her, on which are also the man's wig and an eye in a tumbler of water. Both are bald. He sits (right) in shirt and breeches, about to put on a pair of stockings with false calves of fleece. Both register sour dissatisfaction with themselves and each other."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Persons in wedlock should be properly matched
Description:
Titles from text in French and English below image., Later state, with altered publication line, of no. 13455 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Print stamped with price: Price 1s., On sheet with watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and ounted to: 44.1 x 37.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 20, 1820 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bedrooms, Baldness, Marriage, Wigs, Dentures, and Artificial eyes
