The courier so rough, and so hairy a new version of an old song. [graphic]

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Title: The courier so rough, and so hairy a new version of an old song. [graphic]
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, H., active 1820-1833, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately September 1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for H. Fores, (successor to W. Holland), 16, Panton Street, Haymarket ...
Abstract: "Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. A scene in the grounds of Brandenburgh House (see British Museum Satires No. 13852). Bergami (see British Museum Satires No. 13731), dressed as a courier, capers, flourishing a whip with a long heavy lash. He points complacently to the house, where a tiny figure, the Queen, extends welcoming arms. He has thick curly hair and moustache, and from his neck hangs a miniature portrait (of the Queen). Alderman Wood, as an old woman, dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 13736, advances towards him, holding out his furred alderman's gown. On the right is the river, with a large house on the opposite bank. The verses (87 ll.) grossly attack the Queen; they end: Let that Wooden Sluggist, that old Brewer's Druggist, Return to his business once more, Sir; In a Politic School, be no longer a fool, And an advocate for an old W-, Sir: For I swear by the Gods, the King has the odds In his favour, for the loyal are many, And the Q- will at length, have to trust in the strength, Of her great Mighty Courier B-."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from letterpress text below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Imprint continues: ... where folios of caricatures are lent out for the evening.
Two columns of verse in letterpress below title, beginning: The courier B-, unequall'd by any, Who abroad, and at home, hath made sport, Sir ...
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 60 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Count Bergami" identified in pencil below image; date "1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Several of the blank spaces in the first column of printed verse have been filled in using pencil, to complete the censored names. Typed extract of sixteen 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 of 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 16.3 x 22.3 cm, sheet 40.1 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English