The degraded honoured & the honoured degraded, or, The black dogs under g-v-t well dressed and turned out [graphic].

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Title: The degraded honoured & the honoured degraded, or, The black dogs under g-v-t well dressed and turned out [graphic].
Alternative Title: Degraded honoured and the honoured degraded
Black dogs under g-v-t well dressed and turned out
Black dogs under government well dressed and turned out
Contributor: Benbow, William, 1787-1864, publisher.
Published / Created: [November 1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by W. Benbow, corner of St. Clement's Church Yard, Strand
Abstract: "Satire on the government as a pack of performing dogs under the whip of John Bull presenting their homage to the Queen enthroned."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 39 x 58 cm.
Mounted on leaf 23 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Wood," "Wellington," "Liverpool," "Londondery [sic]," "Eldon," and "Sidmouth" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written in lower right corner.
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 30.1 x 46.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English