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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 September 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 28. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The King (right) and Queen (left) hurl mud at each other. By the former (who wears jack-boots) is a bucket of 'Italian Filth' [see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.]; the Queen's (similar) bucket is inscribed 'Filth from St Giles's, St James, Portman Sqr, Hamilton Place [the Conynghams' address, see British Museum Satires No. 13847] &c &c &c.'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 22.3 x 32.1 cm., Printed on laid paper with the watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored., Window mounted to 23.5 x 33.5 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 79 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "5 Sept. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Sep. 5th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
- 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., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Mud, Throwing, and Pails
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Which is the dirtiest so foul the stains will be indelible. [graphic]
