Print showing George IV dressed as a woman sitting in a parlor greeting his female guests, one guest kneeling on a cushion and kissing his hand may be Lady Conyngham
Alternative Title:
Pleasures of petticoat government
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Robert Cruikshank; see description of later state in the British Museum online catalogue., For a later state with several speech bubbles added to the design, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.13., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Window mounted to 27.7 x 38.6 cm, the whole then mounted to 39 x 58 cm., Mounted on leaf 20 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "June 1820" written in ink in lower right corner of window mount.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
"George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King's right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King's feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock's feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty's Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning's chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation, Coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation, and Coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
Description:
Title etched below image; the name "George" is scored through and replaced by "Jack" written above., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., The identification of the jester as Canning is wrong. The jester has been identified as Admiral Sir Edmund Burke Nagle., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830
"George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King's right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King's feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock's feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty's Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning's chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation, Coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation, and Coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
Description:
Title etched below image; the name "George" is scored through and replaced by "Jack" written above., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., The identification of the jester as Canning is wrong. The jester has been identified as Admiral Sir Edmund Burke Nagle., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching ; sheet 23.1 x 32.8 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "Fellows"; hand-colored., Window mounted to 24.6 x 34.3 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 95 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George Canning" identified in pencil below image; date "July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of eleven lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830
"Caricature of a group of clerics presenting obsequiously a long scroll with an address to George IV who stands before the throne."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Speech for speech
Description:
Title etched below image., Eight lines of verse etched below title: God bless the King, God bless the cunning harlot; God bless the guards, God bless their coats of scarlet ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 53 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "6 Feb. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 6th, 1821, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Clergy, Thrones, Scrolls (Information artifacts), Kneeling, and Honor guards
"A bonassus or bison (right), with the head of Bergami, is embraced by the Queen, who kneels on one knee to kiss the large face. He affectionately places a hoof on her knee. She wears white frilled trousers, with short slashed and tasselled jacket, feathered cap, scarlet high-heeled shoes with turned-up pointed toes; the usual miniature of Bergami dangles below her waist. The scene is the beast's pen. Wood, wearing his gown, rushes up from the left, arms raised, distressed at the rencontre. A grinning beefeater stands by. On the wall is a placard headed: Her Majesty | Bonassus."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Baron in disguise
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Altho' Bonassus does not roar, his fame is widely known, for no dumb animal before, e'er made such noise in town., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 85 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Wood," "Caroline," and "Bergami" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "25 June 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
"Caricature with the Archbishop of Canterbury joining the hands of George IV and Queen Caroline while the people kneel in delight and homage."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Things as they ought to be
Description:
Title etched below image., 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 50 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Eldon," "Liverpool," "Londondery [sic]," "Sidmouth," "Geo. IV," "Caroline," and "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image.
Publisher:
Published January 1821 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, and Kneeling
"Caricature in two scenes, one with Queen Caroline receiving loyal addresses, the other with a grave-digger presenting a text to George IV sailing on his ship with Lady Conyngham."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 3 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Caroline" and "Geo. IV" correctly identified in ink below image, with the female figure on the far right incorrectly identified as another depiction of "Caroline"; date "Oct. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. October 1820 by T. Dolby, 299 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Kneeling, Yachts, Rowboats, Gravedigging, Pickaxes, Flags, and Public opinion
"The King turns his back on Prince Leopold, who departs, making an indignant speech. He bends graciously to a deputation from the Corporation of Dublin; the Lord Mayor [King, see British Museum Satires No. 14525] presents the 'Snug Ultra Loyal Address [see British Museum Satires No. 14105] of the City of Dub--.' See British Museum Satires No. 14114. 'The Times,' 29 Jan.: "At the private levée on Friday [26 Jan.] it was confidently said that an illustrious Prince was 'rumped' by an exalted personage." The Deputation from Dublin were received with affability; the Address was presented to the King on the throne on the 27th."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Courtly specimen of good manners
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1820., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 56 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Sidmouth," "Londonderry," and "Prince Leopold" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "Feb. 1821 [altered to '1827' in pencil]" written in ink beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Published February 1821 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Ireland, and Dublin.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865, King, Abraham Bradley,, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822
"The King, plainly dressed in black, tries to hide, ostrich-like, from the two Sheriffs of London, who kneel before him, holding their wands of office. The foremost, on both knees, his hand on his heart, says: We are deputed by the Corporation to wait upon your M----ty most humbly to know when it will be convenient to receive the dutiful address of your M----tys ancient and loyal City of London. The second sheriff, less obsequious, says: The Citizens are suprised at yr M----tys Backwardness, the Corporation looks blue, and the Lord Mayor is in a Brown Study. The King, poised on his toes, stoops over the throne, a plain arm-chair, as if to take cover, looking behind him from the corners of his averted eyes. He says: I'm not at home. An elderly Lord Chamberlain, also in black, leans forward on tiptoe, supporting himself on the back of the throne, one arm held out above the King's bent back with a gesture of negation to the Sheriffs and protection to the King, saying, He say's "he's not at home! The title is centred by two heraldic turtles and the City's motto: Domini Direge Nos [sic].."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher Thomas McLean was located at 26 Haymarket in 1827. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46.4 cm.
"Pitt stands in front of the throne to which he points with a hand holding a number of threads attached to the noses of his supporters, who advance through a doorway, the foremost kneeling or prostrating themselves. Across his forehead is a placard inscribed 'Interest'; he says, "Approach & Salute the Broad Bottom of Royalty!!" He holds a large flag inscribed 'Standard of venality' on which are a large earl's coronet indicating Lonsdale (see British Museum Satires No. 6579), two duke's coronets, a mitre, a baron's and a viscount's coronet, and three money-bags, each inscribed 'Cole' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 6213), followed by the words 'to be Given Away'. On the ground at Pitt's feet are the words, 'Road to Preferment'. The king kneels on the throne exposing his 'broad bottom' to the Pittites; it is irradiated and to it are attached a pair of small wings; it is further adorned with Garter star and ribbon inscribed 'Honi Soit qui mal...'. He bends forward, his body in a horizontal position, so that his head and shoulders are hidden by a curtain (left) inscribed 'Secret Influence Drying Clouts! Nursing Making toast [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7923] Rocking the Cradle, &c. &c. &c.' The crowd of Pittites advances through a doorway surmounted by a large royal crown flanked by a birch-rod and a sword. Across the doorway is inscribed 'Hall of Prerogative 1784', and over the heads of the members, 'Majority of ye New P------T We are your Devoted Slaves'. Their heads are crudely drawn and few can be identified: a man in the forefront in tartan is evidently Dundas. A man full-face in the centre of the crowd who is inscribed 'Rat Catcher' and has a rat on his forehead is John (or Jack) Robinson, see British Museum Satires No. 6427, &c. Thurlow in wig and gown kneels in profile to the left, and a man on the extreme right resembles Barré. A parson in the foreground is probably Mason, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6485."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First levee of the new Parliament
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Parliamentary levees -- Secret influence -- Members of Parliament as slaves -- Royal prerogative -- Homage -- 'Broad Bottom'., Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman., and Mounted to 29 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, May 29, 1784, by T. Hardy, Strand
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Lonsdale, James Lowther, Earl of, 1736-1802, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Robinson, John, 1727-1802, Barré, Isaac, 1726-1802, and Mason, William, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Thrones, Buttocks, Legislators, Kneeling, Crowns, Flags, and Bribery
