Caricature of Queen Caroline, bedraggled and drunk as she sits slouched in an arm chair, her foot resting on a stool; she wears a hat with three ostrich feathers and around her neck hangs a small portrait (indistinct image) and holds a large glass of brandy while a servant (Alderman Wood wearing the fur-trimmed robes), his eyes cross-eyed, stands beside the chair in attendance with a decanter in hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., Digit "6" in day of publication "26" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: To brandy I flew to seek relief, but he's ne'er the less before me, ah no, no, no, brandy cannot cure, the pains I endure for Bergami., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1821.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Caricature of Queen Caroline, bedraggled and drunk as she sits slouched in an arm chair, her foot resting on a stool; she wears a hat with three ostrich feathers and around her neck hangs a small portrait (indistinct image) and holds a large glass of brandy while a servant (Alderman Wood wearing the fur-trimmed robes), his eyes cross-eyed, stands beside the chair in attendance with a decanter in hand
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., Digit "6" in day of publication "26" in imprint is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: To brandy I flew to seek relief, but he's ne'er the less before me, ah no, no, no, brandy cannot cure, the pains I endure for Bergami., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple and roulette ; sheet 29.8 x 20.7 cm., Printed on wove paper., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 100 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Caroline" and "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image; date "26 July 1821" written in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Titles etched below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs on one plate., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons and devils., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 222 x 313 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles etched below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Two designs on one plate., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons and devils.
"The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." The other two, one flourishing a candle, the other a full glass, sing: "We'll drown her in the bowl the bowl" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12181]. Behind them is a table with decanters and a melon; a bottle is in the King's chair; broken bottles lie on the floor. On the right is the bed; in a chamber-pot are papers: 'The Queens Affair' and 'State Papers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Later state; publisher's street address "24 Little St. Martins Lane" has been scored through and partially burnished from plate but is still legible at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state with unmodified imprint, see no. 14017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., and Mounted on page 28 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
"The King, dead drunk and much dishevelled, is carried to bed by three fat and tipsy peeresses, wearing coronets; the foremost, who supports his legs, probably Lady Conyngham (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847), says: "I'm as great as the Queen." The other two, one flourishing a candle, the other a full glass, sing: "We'll drown her in the bowl the bowl" [cf. British Museum Satires No. 12181]. Behind them is a table with decanters and a melon; a bottle is in the King's chair; broken bottles lie on the floor. On the right is the bed; in a chamber-pot are papers: 'The Queens Affair' and 'State Papers'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Later state; publisher's street address "24 Little St. Martins Lane" has been scored through and partially burnished from plate but is still legible at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state with unmodified imprint, see no. 14017 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., 1 print : etching ; sheet 22 x 33.9 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 23.6 x 35.5 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 32 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Date "12 Dec. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. Dec. 12, 1820, by John Marshall Junr
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
Caricature of George IV in the Brighton Pavilion, sitting on a sofa next to Marchioness Conyngham and groping her; he has an amourous look on his face, while she looks unamused. A portrait of Queen Caroline hangs on the wall behind them, her face obscured by a purse(?) hanging from above the picture frame. An older woman (Lady Warwick?) stands on the right by an open door, glancing over sideways at the scene and saying "I shall retire: is Warwick come to this? Oh this Cunning-- poor Hertford, ho[w] I pity her well may she exclaim false Lothario." Roses are seen through the doorway on the right; a round table with decanters of 'Brandy' is seen on the left, in front of a large window with curtains
Alternative Title:
Peep into the Chinese temple
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other item) on leaf 12 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The figures of "Marchioness Cunningham" and "Lady Warwick" are identified in brown ink in lower margin. Date "May 1820" written in lower right, in black ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1820 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England)
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear 96 Cheapside and Printed by W. Clerk 202 High Holborn
Subject (Topic):
Hangover, Hangover cures, Sick persons, and Alcoholic beverages
"PHYSICORUM: An old man's elongated head, wearing the old-fashioned wig of a doctor. To this is attached a garland of bunches of labelled medicine-bottles and pill-boxes. The 'Drafts are sleeping, purging, composing, emollient, opening, soporific, strength[ening]'. Below are clyster-pipe, syringe, decanter of 'Restorative Drops', and 'Priscription Puffs'. NUNINA: The head of a nun with up-cast eyes. Below are a crowned skull, hourglass, scourge, crucifix, rosary, and book. PUBLICORUM: The jovial drink-blotched head of a publican. To it are attached pipes, 'Tobacco Box', bottles of 'Rum', 'Brandy', and 'Rack'; a tankard; at the base is a punch-bowl filled with lemons."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate numbered 'No. 3' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Publicans -- Doctors' wig -- Medical instruments: clyster-pipe -- Syringe -- Medicine bottles -- Pill boxes -- Crowned skulls -- Rosaries -- Pipes -- Tankards -- Punch-bowls -- Spirits: brandy -- Rum -- Beverages: 'Rack.', Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physicians caricatured., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 179[8 or 9].
Publisher:
Pub. 15 Augt. 1800 by R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Nuns, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, Medicines, Skulls, Hourglasses, Crucifixes, Pipes (Smoking), Tobacco products, Drinking vessels, and Alcoholic beverages
