Doctors, bishops, judges, generals, and statesmen at hard work, or, A sitting committee [graphic]

Description

Title: Doctors, bishops, judges, generals, and statesmen at hard work, or, A sitting committee [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sitting committee
Shitting committee
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [July 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Abstract: "Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satires No. 13850) watch derisively. Behind him is the Pavilion."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Plat [sic] 7"--Upper left corner.
1 print : etching ; sheet 27.1 x 42.1 cm.
Printed on wove paper with watermark "Ivy Mill 1817"; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 40 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bloomfield," "Liverpool," "Wellington," "Eldon," "Londondery [sic]," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "July 1820" written in lower right corner. 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 : sheet 27.5 x 43 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English