Heading to a printed broadside in support of Queen Caroline, with a depiction of the Queen in the upper left, riding in a chariot pulled by a lion under a banner reading "Innocence and Triumph." The Italian witnesses against her are being led in chains to the gallows, the man at the back of the line remaking "This is past a joke O! Majocc"; a hangman smoking a pipe awaits them at the top of a ladder, noose in hand. Three figures with bags over their heads are already hanging, with a fourth hanged figure being fed by a devil with a pitchfork into the flaming mouth of a demon on the right, a "Green Bag" falling into the flames next to him. Another victim is skewered by a second devil standing inside the demon's mouth; the words "Milan Commission Receiving Office" are written amid the flames. A John Bull figure with a walking stick watches the scene from the right, remarking: "Well now if this h'ant a sight that pleases John Bull - Go & be hang'd to ye you Italian scoundels - come to swear an innocent womans life away." In the center foreground, a dog tears at a second "Green Bag" with its mouth
Alternative Title:
Exaltation of my jockey & his brave confederates and Exaltation of my jockey and his brave confederates
Description:
Title printed in letterpress below image., Remnants of etched title are visible beneath image, suggesting that the plate was originally larger and cut down at some point., Date of publication from manuscript note "Aug. 1820" in ink beneath lower right corner of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Song printed in letterpress in two columns below title, beginning with the line "Oh, there never was such times!" and ending "Here's the triumph of brave Caroline our Queen O.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted on leaf 58 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Witnesses, Shackles, Chariots, Lions, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), Ladders, Devil, Demons, Fire, Bags, and Dogs
"A illustrated broadside engraved in two columns. A stalwart Highland soldier, with plumed bonnet, stands outside an open doorway (left) crowded with cringing Italians. He lunges furiously towards them with clenched fist, saying: "Filthy brutes! i 'ts for new boots, That a' you Rogues are swearing at her". The most prominent of the witnesses (cf. British Museum satires no. 13762) are Majocchi (see British Museum satires no. 13827) and Demont, see British Museum satires no. 13856. Over the doorway: 'Rogues Retreat'; at the corner of the building: 'Cotton Garden' [see British Museum satires no. 13824]. Behind (right) is the Thames. The Highlander's words are from the second verse of the song: 'Air Tibby Fowler o' the Glen'. The third of five verses: 'Fie upon the filthy louns! There's o'er mony swearing at her; Fifteen came frae German towns; There's eight and fifty swearing at her; Swearing at her, mumbling at her, Tumbling at her, canna hit her; Tawdry louns! its for new gowns, The hizzies a' are swearing at her.'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 36 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 36.4 x 25.7 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1820"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 60 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "Aug. 1820" written beneath lower right corner of image. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
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., Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820, and Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820
