"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
