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1. The beggar's petition [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 39. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Heading to a printed broadside that begins: "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, whose worn-out limbs have borne him to your door ..." The King is shown as a haggard beggar, his clothes torn and a pack on his back. He holds out his inverted crown with his left hand, seeking donations; his right hand grasps the cane he is leaning on. The sign post behind him says "To Bradenburg [sic] House" and points to the right, the direction in which the King travels. Brandenburgh House is seen in the background on the right, the Queen looking sternly out the window at the disheveled King. A sign at the gate to the house says "Beware of steel traps and sping [sic] guns." In the left background is a smaller house labeled "The Cottage".
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text below image., Date inferred from the depiction of Queen Caroline at Brandenburgh House, where she lived in 1820-21., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Library of Congress, call number: PC 2 - Beggar's petition (A size) [P&P]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 39 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Published by J. Dawson, Camden Town
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Beggars, Crowns, Staffs (Sticks), Traffic signs & signals, Houses, Gates, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The beggar's petition [graphic]
2. The cradle hymn new version / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately July 1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.07.00.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. The King, a bloated and whiskered infant, sleeps in a cradle, rocked by Sidmouth (right), a lean old woman wearing a cap and bag-wig, who sits in a rocking-chair, his clyster-pipe (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849) on the ground. The cradle is surmounted by a pagoda with bells, and ornamented by two large crocodiles, representing the Chinese dragons of the Pavilion, cf. British Museum Satires No. 12749. On it are also a sun, with a fool's cap in its disk, between crescent moons. Round the cradle lie toys: soldiers, mounted lancers, &c., on wheels, a cannon, a sceptre, a crown with a toy windmill stuck in it. With these are papers: 'Divorce'; 'Protocal' [sic]; 'Send her to Hell'. The infant holds a coral and bells and a corkscrew. Castlereagh sits over the fire warming a napkin. Canning (see British Museum Satires No. 13737) walks off to the left, disgustedly carrying the pan of a commode decorated with a crown and 'G.R.' On the chimneypiece are pap-boat, bottle of 'Dolby's Carminative, &c'. (Dolby was a radical bookseller, 'Dalby's carminative' a well-known remedy for infants). A large 'Green Bag' hangs on the wall. In a doorway behind Sidmouth, inscribed 'French Dolls', stand two young women, in evening dress, stiff and impassive."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title printed in letterpress below image., First edition? For the eighth edition, see no. 13764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Date of publication from description of later edition in the British Museum catalogue., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Hush! GREAT BABE! lie still and slumber, Troops of lancers guard thy bed, Chinese gimcracks, without number, Nicely dangle o'er thy head. ..., "Price, with the engraving, coloured, 1s."--Below verses., Publisher's advertisement above imprint statement: "The Devil's ball; or, There never were such times." Words only, 2d. - with coloured engraving, 1s. 6d.", and "(Entered at Stationers' Hall.)"--Below imprint.
- Publisher:
- Published by T. Dolby, 299, Strand, and 34, Wardour Street, Soho
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Canning, George, 1770-1827
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Political satire, English, Cradles, Rocking chairs, Toys, and Fireplaces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cradle hymn new version / [graphic]
3. The political mouse-trap, or, A great ***** in an uproar : addressed to the rat-killer of St. James's. A new song, to the tune of, There was an old woman at Grimstone
- Published / Created:
- [1763]
- Call Number:
- 763.12.06.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Satire on Samuel Martin's duel with Wilkes. On the left, two Scotsmen support Lord Sandwich who is holding up a copy of Wilkes's Essay on Woman saying, "This will do for him I warrant ye". In front of them the diminutive figure of Samuel Martin fires a shot at a mouse representing Wilkes. In the centre, behind Martin, a group of four men express their horror at the Essay: Kidgell proclaiming, "I'll publish a Narrative about it", Bishop Warburton holding up a copy and condemning it as blasphemy, and Lord Lyttleton crying, "O 'tis so shocking I can't bear it." In the centre, a Scot (Bute?) wearing a bonnet with a feather draws his sword at the mouse. To the right, Britannia, naked to the waist, swoons as a rat representing Bute attacks her heart; she is attended by Newcastle, Temple, Pitt and Cumberland. Engraved inscriptions and speech-balloons, letterpress title and verses in two columns, and one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Great ***** in an uproar and Great house in an uproar
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image plate mark (17.5 x 23.5 cm)., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title, separated vertically with an ornamental border. When a certain great ***** was alarm'd at a mouse, they vow'd that they'd quickly ***** him ..., and Publisher's advertisement below verses, following imprint: ... where may be had, The British antidote to Caledonian poison, 2 vols. Price 5s.
- Publisher:
- Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Martin, Samuel, -1788., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Warburton, William, 1698-1779, and Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The political mouse-trap, or, A great ***** in an uproar : addressed to the rat-killer of St. James's. A new song, to the tune of, There was an old woman at Grimstone