Heading to printed verses. George IV has just come ashore, with a boat seen on the coast behind him and the royal yacht out in the water beyond; he carries a scepter in his right hand a large green bag on his back, the ties of which resemble antlers or horns above his head. A group of men with donkey ears greet him on the left; one man holds a flag showing two cows, and another a long document with the heading "Cows." Behind the King, on the right edge of the design, three men in uniform look on.
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Date from manuscript annotation beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight stanzas of verse in three columns below title, in letterpress: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose gilded yacht has borne him to your shore ..., Four lines of text, printed in italics, at bottom of third column: The above stanzas were lately picked up on the shore near Cowes. The lines that are left out were illegible, apparently from the manuscript, which was torn, having been used in keeping a pair of refractory whiskers in good order., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil below image; date "1821" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Moss, Thomas, 1738 or 1739-1808.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Arrivals & departures, Scepters, Bags, Boats, Yachts, Flags, and Military uniforms
Caption title., In verse., An abridged version of An appeal from the bulls to the cows., Not to be confused with "Parody on the Beggar's petition"; the first two lines of the present work are: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, / Whose gilded yacht has borne him to your shore., Satire in verse on George IV., At bottom are sixteen lines in four stanzas with the heading "Song, adapted to Moore's melody. Tune--"The harp that once, in Tara's halls." These verses concern George IV's estranged wife Queen Caroline., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. Fairburn, 110, Minories
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Moss, Thomas, 1738 or 1739-1808.
