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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 23, 1820.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 25. George Humphrey shop album. Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "From two huge green bags, pear-shaped and broad-based, emerge respectively the heads of the King and Queen. They stand on the surface of a table forming the base of the design. The King's bag (left) is the larger; with averted head he looks sideways at his wife with an expression of terrified fury. She looks towards him with demure provocation. He wears a crown, she a triple ostrich plume in her hat to show that she is denied her status. Round the vast girth of the King's bag is a buckled garter; round the Queen's a blue (Garter) ribbon (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13802) inscribed '. . . Droit. Honi . Soit. Qui . Mal. y . Pense.' By the former bag is a paper: 'Ordered to lie [scored through] lay on the table'; by the latter: 'Secret Committe [sic]--'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Mounted on page 51 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 28 x 40.9 cm., and With identifications of "George IV" and "Q. Caroline" written in pencil below image, as well as the explanation "the green bags with reference to their divorce were ordered to lie on the table" written in pencil below title.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bags, Tables, Crowns, Feathers, Belts (Clothing), and Ribbons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Ah! Sure such a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature" Old Sherry : dedicated to Old Bags / [graphic]