"The Prince of Wales stands full-face, in shirt and nightcap, his back to the bridal bed (right) in which the Princess lies with an expression of smiling expectancy. The Prince stands dismayed, with his right fingers to his mouth. On a table beside him (left) are two (?) mustard-pots and a bottle of 'Cantharides'. On the wall showing between the curtains of the bed is a picture of Leda and the swan. The bed is ornate with fringed curtains, and the Prince of Wales' feathers and motto at the head. Her stockings, shoes, a garter, and a garment draped over a chair are beside the Princess; the Prince's clothes lie at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: who has just fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile, admittance one shilling., Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: bed curtains -- Pictures amplifying subject: Leda and the swan -- Medicinal: cantharides potion -- Prince of Wales's marriage, 8 April 1795., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR and date 1794 below., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. April 15, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Allegorical prints, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Interiors, and Sleepwear
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
"George IV sits on the throne with Caroline beside him; his arm is round her shoulders and he turns to her to say: "(He that findeth a wife findeth good.) My dear Q***n, If constancy & love can make any amends for my past follies, I still may hope of a Reconciliation, do not go abroad again, to stay at home, is a great sign of the loyalty of marriage. ''Beneath the glitt'ring weight of crowns he'd groan", "Unless the genial bed relieve the throne." You may depend on it, I have turn'd up all those wanton Devils, I am sick of fat, I think no better of them than M. Raggou's Mistress who was whore to the whole troop. "A worthy Woman, saith Solomon is a Crown to her Husband!" He is caricatured, wearing royal robes and ruff. The Queen, who wears a small crown and royal robes, is handsome, affectionate, and unrecognizable. Her foot is on the royal footstool, and the crown is beside her. Leaning against the dais is an open book: 'Proverbs. She will do him good not evil all the days of her Life.' In the foreground (right) lies a portfolio of 'Bought up Caricatures'. On a projecting print is 'Marks fect', which serves as signature. The King's left arm is extended towards a crowd of angry and weeping women who are in a landscape which serves as background. Five in the forefront wear coronets. These say: "Oh! the wicked deceiver he shall know that women are either Angels or Devils"; "Oh! the Jerry Sneak" [from Foote's 'Mayor of Garratt']; "Let me come past, let me come past I'm going to drown'd myself"; "I shall hang myself"; "I wont go home to the Old Stick of my husband he can do nothing for me"; "Who would have thougt [sic] it after I experienced so much of his favour." One of the undifferentiated crowd says: "I shall go to the Magdalen" [asylum]. In the background are tiny figures: on the left a woman hangs from the branch of a rotten tree, above water in which one woman is almost submerged; another is about to plunge in, while a third runs towards it. On a hill on the right six lean and antlered men wearing court-suits dance holding hands; one says: "Dance away my Bucks, we shall have all our Ribs returned.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal libertine reclaimed, or, The anticipation of a reconciliation and Anticipation of a reconciliation
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower right portion of image., and Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Prince's St., Soho
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 sits on the throne with Caroline beside him; his arm is round her shoulders and he turns to her to say: "(He that findeth a wife findeth good.) My dear Q***n, If constancy & love can make any amends for my past follies, I still may hope of a Reconciliation, do not go abroad again, to stay at home, is a great sign of the loyalty of marriage. ''Beneath the glitt'ring weight of crowns he'd groan", "Unless the genial bed relieve the throne." You may depend on it, I have turn'd up all those wanton Devils, I am sick of fat, I think no better of them than M. Raggou's Mistress who was whore to the whole troop. "A worthy Woman, saith Solomon is a Crown to her Husband!" He is caricatured, wearing royal robes and ruff. The Queen, who wears a small crown and royal robes, is handsome, affectionate, and unrecognizable. Her foot is on the royal footstool, and the crown is beside her. Leaning against the dais is an open book: 'Proverbs. She will do him good not evil all the days of her Life.' In the foreground (right) lies a portfolio of 'Bought up Caricatures'. On a projecting print is 'Marks fect', which serves as signature. The King's left arm is extended towards a crowd of angry and weeping women who are in a landscape which serves as background. Five in the forefront wear coronets. These say: "Oh! the wicked deceiver he shall know that women are either Angels or Devils"; "Oh! the Jerry Sneak" [from Foote's 'Mayor of Garratt']; "Let me come past, let me come past I'm going to drown'd myself"; "I shall hang myself"; "I wont go home to the Old Stick of my husband he can do nothing for me"; "Who would have thougt [sic] it after I experienced so much of his favour." One of the undifferentiated crowd says: "I shall go to the Magdalen" [asylum]. In the background are tiny figures: on the left a woman hangs from the branch of a rotten tree, above water in which one woman is almost submerged; another is about to plunge in, while a third runs towards it. On a hill on the right six lean and antlered men wearing court-suits dance holding hands; one says: "Dance away my Bucks, we shall have all our Ribs returned.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal libertine reclaimed, or, The anticipation of a reconciliation and Anticipation of a reconciliation
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower right portion of image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Mounted on page 48 of: George Humphrey shop album., and 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 44.7 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Prince's St., Soho
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 sits on the throne with Caroline beside him; his arm is round her shoulders and he turns to her to say: "(He that findeth a wife findeth good.) My dear Q***n, If constancy & love can make any amends for my past follies, I still may hope of a Reconciliation, do not go abroad again, to stay at home, is a great sign of the loyalty of marriage. ''Beneath the glitt'ring weight of crowns he'd groan", "Unless the genial bed relieve the throne." You may depend on it, I have turn'd up all those wanton Devils, I am sick of fat, I think no better of them than M. Raggou's Mistress who was whore to the whole troop. "A worthy Woman, saith Solomon is a Crown to her Husband!" He is caricatured, wearing royal robes and ruff. The Queen, who wears a small crown and royal robes, is handsome, affectionate, and unrecognizable. Her foot is on the royal footstool, and the crown is beside her. Leaning against the dais is an open book: 'Proverbs. She will do him good not evil all the days of her Life.' In the foreground (right) lies a portfolio of 'Bought up Caricatures'. On a projecting print is 'Marks fect', which serves as signature. The King's left arm is extended towards a crowd of angry and weeping women who are in a landscape which serves as background. Five in the forefront wear coronets. These say: "Oh! the wicked deceiver he shall know that women are either Angels or Devils"; "Oh! the Jerry Sneak" [from Foote's 'Mayor of Garratt']; "Let me come past, let me come past I'm going to drown'd myself"; "I shall hang myself"; "I wont go home to the Old Stick of my husband he can do nothing for me"; "Who would have thougt [sic] it after I experienced so much of his favour." One of the undifferentiated crowd says: "I shall go to the Magdalen" [asylum]. In the background are tiny figures: on the left a woman hangs from the branch of a rotten tree, above water in which one woman is almost submerged; another is about to plunge in, while a third runs towards it. On a hill on the right six lean and antlered men wearing court-suits dance holding hands; one says: "Dance away my Bucks, we shall have all our Ribs returned.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Royal libertine reclaimed, or, The anticipation of a reconciliation and Anticipation of a reconciliation
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed by the printmaker in lower right portion of image., Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 24.8 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.2 x 35.2 cm., Printed on wove paper., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 51 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Caroline," "Geo. IV," and "Royal Mistresses" identified in ink below image. Typed extract of sixteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Prince's St., Soho
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German woman holds a massive sceptre in both her hands raised above her head ready to strick her opponent. All the figures have speech bubbles above their heads referencing the rights of the people, the Prince's morganatic marriage, Catholics, and the issue of money going to Germany
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from later state. Cf. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times. London, Chatto and Windus, [1873?], p. 107., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of subtitle., Earlier state, with the Prince of Wales's uncensored speech. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7501., and Watermark: L Taylor.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
Two stout ladies, dressed in long gowns, confront each other. Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) with her second the Prince of Wales faces in a confident manner the scowling and clumsy Mrs. Schwellenberg whose second, Pitt offers her a lemon. The furious German woman holds a massive sceptre in both her hands raised above her head ready to strick her opponent. All the figures have speech bubbles above their heads referencing the rights of the people, the Prince's morganatic marriage, Catholics, and the issue of money going to Germany
Alternative Title:
Political heat for Rege & Grege and Political heat for Rege and Grege
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Later state with the Prince's speech censored., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages: Prince of Wales's to Mrs. Fitzherbert -- Ficticious duels: Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Schwellenberg -- Allusion to Regency crisis, 1788 -- Lemons -- Literature: travesty of Nathaniel Lee's The rival queens., Watermark: Portal & Bridges., and Mounted to 27 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby 1, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Schwellenberg, Elizabeth Juliana, ca 1728-1797
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Regency, Censorship, Crucifixes, Fighting, Lemons, Royal marriages, British, and Scepters
"The interior of a large church or cathedral. Burke, dressed as a Jesuit, standing within a low, semicircular wall at the foot of a crucifix, marries the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert. The Prince is about to put the ring on her finger. Fox gives her away, holding her left wrist. Beside him (right) stands Weltje in back view but looking to the left at the ceremony. A napkin is under his left arm, bottles project from his coat-pockets, and the tags on his shoulder denote the liveried manservant. To the left of Fox appears the profile of George Hanger. On the left North sits, leaning against the altar wall, sound asleep, his legs outstretched. He wears his ribbon but is dressed as a coachman, his hat and whip beside him. All the men wear top-boots to suggest a runaway match. Behind the Prince in a choir seat is a row of kneeling monks who are chanting the marriage service. The crucifix is partly covered by a curtain, but the legs and feet are painfully distorted ... On the wall and pillars of the church are four framed pictures: 'David watching Bathsheba bathing', 'St. Anthony tempted by monsters', 'Eve tempting Adam with the apple', and 'Judas kissing Christ', the last being over the head of Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Trip to the Continent and Wife and no wife
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: The morning after marriage, or, A scene on the Continent., and Watermark: Strasburg bend & lily / W and J Whatman.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Willm. Holland, No. 66 Drury Lane, London
Subject (Name):
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, and Weltje, Louis, 1745-1810
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Churches, Clergy, Monks, Royal weddings, and Sleeping
