A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [19 June 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.8 x 39 cm, on sheet 27 x 40.7 cm.
Mounted to 39 x 58 cm.
Mounted on leaf 24 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Identifications of "Alderman Wood & Qu. Caroline" written in pencil on mounting sheet, beneath lower left corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted to the left of print. - 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 print : plate mark 25.7 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 29 x 42 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Page 16. George Humphrey shop album.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Humphrey, G., 1773-1831?, collector.
- Collection Date
- [London], [not after 1821]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 - Subject (Topic)
-
Balconies
Crowds
Cheering
Sailors
Chimney sweeps
Clergy
Telescopes - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 > Caricatures and cartoons
Balconies
Crowds
Cheering
Sailors
Chimney sweeps
Clergy
Telescopes
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9308171
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245674