"A family party walking past the entrance to Bagnigge Wells: A fat citizen, his wig awry and dripping with perspiration, carries a little girl who holds a whip. His stout wife walks behind (right) holding a fan in one hand, a tasselled cane in the other, she smiles complacently. In front, a small boy drags a small four-wheeled chair in which sits a doll-like child holding a doll. The background is the corner of a brick house (right) showing part of a bow-window inscribed "Dealer in Coffee", and a gate inscribed "Bagnigge Wells" with an ogive-shaped decoration surmounting the architrave. Behind are trees. The design evidently derives from Hogarth's "Evening".-- British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum online catalogue., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum online catalogue., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Families, Fathers & children, Couples, Walking, and Clothing & dress
Print showing George IV in a rage against family members (Frederick and William) who are unwilling to lend their support for the Bill of Pains and Penalties and his divorce from Caroline; he smashes a bottle of wine over the head of Frederick and prepares to throw another bottle at William. A woman, possibly Lady Conyngham, offers words of encouragement from behind a drape, while a man leaning through a window says, "Hollo Georgy, mind what y'our after if you offend Fred: he has got a Red Rod in Pickle for you."
Alternative Title:
Family quarrels
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 48 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Duke of York," "Prince Leopold," "George IV," and "Lady Conyngham" are identified in pencil at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 23, 1820, by King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., and William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Family, Families, Divorce, Adultery, Anger, Brothers, Mistresses, Throwing, Bottles, Draperies, Pineapples, Military uniforms, and British
"George IV sits on Lady Conyngham's lap, kissing her amorously; he wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings. Lady Elizabeth (right) bends over him, supporting his elbow, while her sister, Lady Maria Harriet, stands behind the sofa, close to her mother. All three women are in evening dress. In the foreground (right) Lord Francis, tall and fashionable, stands directed to the right, looking furtively over his right shoulder. He holds a large purse, and is slipping coins from it into his trouser-pocket; he says: Well as this Purse must go to Knight-on [the K scored through] I'll make the most of it. At his feet is an open book: Lord C . . . Advice to his Son * Get money . . . it Honest if you can--. The words are partly hidden by a smaller book: Cunningham Poems. Behind, on the extreme left, and directed to the left, Lord Conyngham, with small horns and large ass's ears, sits on a chamber-pot inscribed Chamberl . . . [ain], holding a long wand of office. He scowls over his shoulder at his family, saying, It's a Blessing to be Happy and Contented. Behind him is a (pictorial) fire-screen mounted on a pole which terminates in a crown: Conyngham crawls on hands and knees, blindfolded and bound; his wife sits on his back, with the King on her lap, embracing her. Behind the closely grouped heads of the King and the three ladies are hanging bookshelves, two of the books being open: A Lecture upon Horns facing a stag's antlers, and Jerry Sneak [the hen-pecked husband in Foote's Mayor of Garratt]. On the floor in the foreground are an open book: A Mothers advice to her Daughters [cf. British Museum Satires 14401] and a paper: A List of Choice Plays She stoops to Conquer. All in the Wrong. Bold stroke for a Wife. Every Man in his Humour--Careless Husband. Way to keep Him, Tender Husband, School for Wives [scored through], Inconstant &c &c &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Imprint truncated; publisher's name possibly erased from plate., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 25 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Lady Conyngham," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by [...]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839, Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843, Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
