All my eye [graphic]

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Title: All my eye [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: [May 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 1821 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Abstract: "A parody of G. Cruikshank's 'My Eye', see British Museum Satires No. 14168. The eye is as before but much enlarged, filling the design. It contains a printing-press, inscribed 'Radical Press', and on it rests the Queen's bust portrait wreathed in laurel, closely copied from British Museum Satires No. 14150. Below the eye: 'See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press. I'll watch them [him] tame. Shakespeare' ['Othello', III. iii; quoted in British Museum Satires No. 14168]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched at top of image.
Text at bottom of image: See Hone's eulogium on the Radical Press.
Text in lower right corner of image: I'll watch them tame. Shakspeare.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching ; sheet 14.9 x 22.3 cm.
Printed on wove paper.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 69 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Q. Caroline" identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "May 1821" 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 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 : sheet 15.2 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English