Caroline [graphic]

Description

Title: Caroline [graphic]
Creator: Vowles, S., active 1820-1825, printmaker
Contributor: Hodgson & Co. (Publishers), publisher.
Published / Created: [6 November 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 6, 1820, by Hodgson, 43, King Stt., Snow Hill, London
Abstract: "The Queen stands full face, at the base of a pillar (right), holding up a scroll: 'Firm in my Innocence and secure of my Peoples Love, I smile at my Enemies impotent attempts to injure me, And Ride Secure Amid The Storm.' In her left hand is a rolled document: 'Defence'. She wears a feathered hat and an ermine-bordered robe over her dress. The pillar, part only being within the design, is wreathed with olive alternately with bands on each curve of which is inscribed one of the places making addresses to her: 'City of Londo[n]', 'City of West[minster]', 'Southwar[k]', 'County of Midd[lesex]'. On the base is an irradiated sun in a laurel wreath. Beside the Queen (left) is a pile of cylindrical documents, each inscribed 'Address'. The Royal Standard hangs behind her head, its staff projecting from behind the pillar."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 13 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Date "6 Nov. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of nine lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath 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 34.3 x 24.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English