"Majocchi, with brown face, debased features, and villainous squint, grotesquely dressed as a dandy, stands full-face, holding out a large rolled document: 'Orders for the Milan Commission' [see British Museum Satires No. 13755, &c.] and a large purse filled with gold coins: 'Secret Service Money'. He wears a small high-crowned hat: 'made by the Dandy Military Tailor in Pall Mall' [George IV, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13237, &c.]. On the lapels of his coat are two portrait medallions, one of 'Mrs Q' [see British Museum Satires No. 13889], the other of the 'K--g'. From a pocket hangs a long paper: 'Minutes of a conversation with a fat goodlooking Gentleman in Pall Mall on the Day George the III was Buried.' A long cylinder attached (?) to a coat-tail is inscribed 'Perjury . . . Per . . . Perjury'. He wears long trousers of hussar pattern, coat with small tails open over a tight white waistcoat: all his clothes are inscribed 'Government Stores'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Non mi ricordo
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 36 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 8th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadill [sic]
Subject (Name):
Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Quentin, Georgina.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Documents, Purses, Coins, Hats, and Medals
"Majocchi, with brown face, debased features, and villainous squint, grotesquely dressed as a dandy, stands full-face, holding out a large rolled document: 'Orders for the Milan Commission' [see British Museum Satires No. 13755, &c.] and a large purse filled with gold coins: 'Secret Service Money'. He wears a small high-crowned hat: 'made by the Dandy Military Tailor in Pall Mall' [George IV, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13237, &c.]. On the lapels of his coat are two portrait medallions, one of 'Mrs Q' [see British Museum Satires No. 13889], the other of the 'K--g'. From a pocket hangs a long paper: 'Minutes of a conversation with a fat goodlooking Gentleman in Pall Mall on the Day George the III was Buried.' A long cylinder attached (?) to a coat-tail is inscribed 'Perjury . . . Per . . . Perjury'. He wears long trousers of hussar pattern, coat with small tails open over a tight white waistcoat: all his clothes are inscribed 'Government Stores'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Non mi ricordo
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 34.9 x 24.8 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 96 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Theodore Majocchi" identified in ink below image; date "8 Oct. 1820" written in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. Oct. 8th, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadill [sic]
Subject (Name):
Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Quentin, Georgina.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Documents, Purses, Coins, Hats, and Medals
Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. The King, a whiskered child, sits on the floor of a nursery and plays with Sidmouth, who sits in a chair. Around them on the floor lie toys, along with papers inscribed "Bill of Pains," "Bergami Blister," and "Loyal Ads." A fireplace is seen in the background on the left, above which hangs a portrait of "Mrs. Q." Through a window on the right a street sign "To St. Pauls" is visible
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Date from manuscript annotations below image and in lower right corner of sheet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Here the Q---n goes up, up, up, Up towards a crown, oh ..., Publisher's advertisement below imprint: And may be had at all caricature shops. N.B. Just published, price 1s. - The contented peers, or King's own., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 19 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Sidmouth" and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image, under which duplicate identifications are written in pencil. Date "abt. Nov. 1820" added in ink below plate mark; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for and published by Langham, 3, Red Lion Street, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Quentin, Georgina.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political satire, English, Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), Children, Toys, Fireplaces, and Windows
"George IV, dressed as a Turk, marches arrogantly past a row of ladies of his harem, holding a large goblet whose contents are spilling. He wears a jewelled turban with the high peak of a fool's cap, terminating in a bell. The end of his long furred robe is held by a thin man (left) wearing a turban decorated with antlers to indicate Lord Conyngham; the latter's arms and legs are bare, and he shambles along, carrying a decanter. The King says: "Variety is charming. Constancy is not for me, so Ladies pray take warning." The seven ladies, all fat and all in quasi-Turkish dress with turbans, watch him intently."--British Museum online catalogue and "Illustration to a verse satire on the life of George IV, in which the villain is Queen Charlotte. The design may derive from prints of the Prince and Lord Jersey in 1796, especially Gillray's 'Grand-Signior retiring' (British Museum Satires No. 8807). In British Museum Satires No. 8809 there is a picture of the Prince as a Turk among his harem. Among the seven here depicted, but scarcely characterized, are probably, besides Lady Conyngham and Lady Hertford, the Duchess of Richmond, and Mrs. Quentin. The print appears in British Museum Satires No. 14030; a similar print is in British Museum Satires No. 14049."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Frontispiece to: Hudibras, the younger. Sultan Sham, and his seven wives. London : Printed and published by W. Benbow, 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 5 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Manuscript title "Front. to Sultan Sham & his seven wives" written in ink at bottom of sheet. Figures of "Ld. Conyngham" and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Benbow, 269 Strand
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834., Richmond and Lennox, Charlotte, Duchess of, 1768-1842., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., and Quentin, Georgina.