The cunning and happy family [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The cunning and happy family [graphic]
- Creator
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [approximately November 1822]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by [...]
- Abstract
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"George IV sits on Lady Conyngham's lap, kissing her amorously; he wears a dressing-gown with ungartered stockings. Lady Elizabeth (right) bends over him, supporting his elbow, while her sister, Lady Maria Harriet, stands behind the sofa, close to her mother. All three women are in evening dress. In the foreground (right) Lord Francis, tall and fashionable, stands directed to the right, looking furtively over his right shoulder. He holds a large purse, and is slipping coins from it into his trouser-pocket; he says: Well as this Purse must go to Knight-on [the K scored through] I'll make the most of it. At his feet is an open book: Lord C . . . Advice to his Son * Get money . . . it Honest if you can--. The words are partly hidden by a smaller book: Cunningham Poems. Behind, on the extreme left, and directed to the left, Lord Conyngham, with small horns and large ass's ears, sits on a chamber-pot inscribed Chamberl . . . [ain], holding a long wand of office. He scowls over his shoulder at his family, saying, It's a Blessing to be Happy and Contented. Behind him is a (pictorial) fire-screen mounted on a pole which terminates in a crown: Conyngham crawls on hands and knees, blindfolded and bound; his wife sits on his back, with the King on her lap, embracing her. Behind the closely grouped heads of the King and the three ladies are hanging bookshelves, two of the books being open: A Lecture upon Horns facing a stag's antlers, and Jerry Sneak [the hen-pecked husband in Foote's Mayor of Garratt]. On the floor in the foreground are an open book: A Mothers advice to her Daughters [cf. British Museum Satires 14401] and a paper: A List of Choice Plays She stoops to Conquer. All in the Wrong. Bold stroke for a Wife. Every Man in his Humour--Careless Husband. Way to keep Him, Tender Husband, School for Wives [scored through], Inconstant &c &c &c."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Imprint truncated; publisher's name possibly erased from plate.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 25 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Ld. Conyngham," "Lady Conyngham," and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "Nov. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. - 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 25 x 34.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1822
Etchings England London 1822
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Name)
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839
Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843
Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876.
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830. - Subject (Topic)
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Adultery
Families
Mistresses
Kissing
Purses
Bookcases
Horns (Anatomy)
Chamber pots - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861 > Caricatures and cartoons
Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839 > Caricatures and cartoons
Athlumney, Harriet Maria Somerville, Lady, -1843 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832 > Caricatures and cartoons
Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Conyngham, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Marquess, 1797-1876
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Adultery > England > 1820-1830
Families > England > 1820-1830
Mistresses
Kissing
Purses
Bookcases
Horns (Anatomy)
Chamber pots
England > 1822
England > London > 1822
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17466305
- Object ID (OID)
- 33245949