Kight-errant, or, The distressed Queen, Knight-errant, and Distressed Queen
Description:
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. The songs are in celebration of Queen Caroline’s return to England in 1820. The two woodcuts are a portrait of Alderman Wood in an oval border together with a crude woodcut of a lady., Printer's statement following title in first column., In verse., First line of "The knight-errant, or, The distressed Queen": When the Queen was detain'd on th[e] Gallian shore ..., First line of "Queen Caroline lov'd in our island": Queen Caroline's come ..., Bodleian Ballads online, V4292, and Edge mounted on upper half of sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843,
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. The songs are in celebration of Queen Caroline’s return to England in 1820. The three woodcuts are two crude images of a woman and a small ship., Printer's statement from first column. Additional printer's statement in second column: Pitts, printer and wholesale toy warehouse, 6 Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials., In verse., First line of "The knight-errant, or, The distressed Queen": When the Queen was detain'd on th[e] Gallian shore ..., First line of "Queen Caroline lov'd in our island": God save Queen Caroline ..., and Partially edge-mounted. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In verse; without the music., On the omission of Queen Caroline's name from the liturgy., First line: Don't I look a man of sense ..., "Price One Penny."--Below imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately. Woodcut above title in first column., Printer's statement from first column. Additional printer's statements in second column following caption title: Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Grea[t] Andrew Street, 7 Dials . Also below text in second column: Pitts, wholesale toy warehouse., In verse., First line of "The poor royal stranger": Ye fair of this island fam'd for commerce and arts ..., First line of "Britons claim her as your Queen!!": Britons! who have ever been ..., and Partially edge-mounted. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Pitts, printer and wholesale toy warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, each in its own column, separate caption titles and identical printer's statements and a woodcut above each title., In verse., First line of "The return of the rose": Weep not [the] streams of silver Thames ..., First line of "Caroline's return": O let the silver trumpet sound ..., and Laid on to stiff blue paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Lane, Bridewell-Alley, Norwich
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In verse., A slip song., In one column with a woodcut above the title., First line: Blow softly ye breezes; and waft o'er the proud billows ..., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Imperfect, sheet trimmed with loss of woodcut illustration from top edge., and Imperfect copy: Trimmed with the loss of all but the bottom edge of the woodcut above the title. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Pitts, printer, and Wholesale Toy | Warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1823]
Call Number:
Drawer 823.00.00.28+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of the House of Lords, crowded with nobles in the benches and galleries on either side, attending the trial of Queen Caroline for adultery with Pergami, her Italian secretary; George IV stands, hands on hips, in the left gallery, the editors of the Times and Courier lean over the front bench below it, Robert Gifford, attorney general, stands in front of them holding a finger to his chin thoughtfully while Spinetti interprets for a witness, Majocchi, at the bar, behind which Tyrwhitt, Long and Castlereagh, sit sifting papers to the left of the Queen's solicitor and Denman, who takes a paper from Henry Brougham, the Queen sits to the right in front of the bar, Earl Grey stands in the right aisle, pointing with his right arm towards the witness, and the artist is shown standing with a folio under his arm on the far right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Initial letters of printmaker's name form a monogram., Sheets trimmed within plate marks., Five of the six prints comprising this image were issued as illustrations in: Descriptive catalogue of the great historical picture painted by Mr. George Hayter ... London : Gold and Walton, 1823. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.7373.1-5., and Annotated in black ink by an unidentified hand with numbers by each image matching those used for the printed key to the later published state.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826,, Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820,, Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 1762 or 1763-1833,, Long, Charles, 1760-1838,, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822,, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854,, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868,, Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873,, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845,, Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871,, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Subject (Topic):
Scandals, Trials (Adultery), Government officials, Judicial proceedings, Queens, and British
Caption title., With: Scott, John. An address to Great Britain, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen., Broadside consisting of two seemingly separate publications, the second being ‘An Address to Great Britain, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen’ by John Scott. At the head of the sheet is a large woodcut portrait of Queen Caroline with the first paragraph setting out a robust attack on her accusers and a defence of her good character: ‘The cause of the Queen is now indeed placed in a triumphant attitude. The question is no longer whether her Majesty has forfeited her character as a princess and a woman, but it is now whether those who have attempted to blacken her character by the most filthy imputation shall receive the merited reward of perjury and infamy’., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Imperfect, trimmed to 47.5 x 17.5 cm with loss printer's statement., and Laid on to modern card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Carrall, printer, Walmgate, York
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.