Print shows personifications of Europe, Africa, America, and Asia pointing their fingers at a blushing Britannia paying penance for corruption atop a stool of repentence along with Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; King George IV; Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool; Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh); Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. A crowd of mostly women is gathered under the stool, some with glasses and bowls and "Political caricature on the Royal Divorce: George IV and Caroline sit with the cabinet on a stool, mocked by the four Continents, while Britannia blushes; below a waterfall of Corruption falls to pollute Westminster."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 40 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Liverpool," "Wellington," "Q. Caroline," "Geo. IV," "Sidmouth," and "Londondery [sic]" identified in ink within image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10, 1821, by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Westminster Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Symbols, Corruption, Punishment devices, Punishment & torture, Politicians, Embarassment, Bowls (Tableware), and Drinking vessels
Seeking truth through alchemy, philosophical speculation, mysticism
Description:
Title from text in image., Alternate title supplied by curator., From: Henricus Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae., Pencil notation verso: [Illegible] Dr. H Khunrath 1602., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Four fragments pasted around the inset of Jacob and Laban's flock, from a tankard belonging to the Clare Market Club. (See Paulson no. 25). The four fragments are probably impressions from a large silver platter and show Juno, Neptune, Tellus, and Vulcan
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
Description:
Title, questionable attribution, and date from Paulson., An unique impression., Sheets trimmed to design., Ms. note mounted below: The Four Elements, represented in Four Compartments, under the figures of Vulcan, Juno, Tellus, & Neptune. These are impressions from some large Piece of Plate, very probably an oblong silver Tea-Table. The smallest is merely the center of the Tankard. See p. 3. Where I found it I have left it., Ms. note in pencil at bottom of sheet: Sold at Gulston's Auction, for £4.14.6f the Tankard. See p. 3. Where I found it I have left it., and On page 6 in volume 1.
