The depraved husband : a dream

Description

Title: The depraved husband : a dream
Published / Created: [approximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed and published by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate-Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Letterpress text, printed in two columns, beginning: It was a cold December night, and the beating of the rain and sleet against the window alone ...
With a wood engraved illustration on first page showing George IV with pointed ears, holding up a glass in his left hand and a bottle of alcohol in his right, looking defiant as a man holding a staff seems to plead with him. A weeping Queen Caroline can be seen in the background on a pier, a small boat in front of her and a ship further out in the harbor. Above the image is printed "Oh, what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground. - Midas." Beneath are three additional lines of quoted text: "In the divorce, his contrary proceedings are all unfounded, wherein he appears as I would wish mine enemy."
Publisher's advertisement at foot of second page: Just published, the following dreams: (by the same author.) 1. The profligate son. -- 2. The conspirators. -- 3. The degraded King. With appropriate cuts.
"Price 3d. coloured, - 2d. plain."
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 13 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Geo. IV" identified in ink beneath illustration.
Provenance: Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone." William Reese Company; February 2024.
Extent: 1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : 23 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English