131.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately November 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Old nursing song in imitation of Dean Swift. [graphic]