"Caricature on Queen Charlotte holding a torch of Virtue and Innocence while her enemies cower in its light."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
British Amazon vanquishing her enemies
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 30 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Geo. IV" and "Caroline" identified in black ink below image; date "1 July 1820" written in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st July 1820 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline: the Devil, holding a green bag, carries off Bergami [or George IV?] on his shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Manuscript imprint "Published by Benbow, 169 Strand" added in ink in lower right portion of image. Impression at the British Museum (registration no.: 1990,1109.37) has a pencil note by Andrew Edmunds that records another impression he had seen that bore the manuscript address of Benbow., Date from manuscript annotation in lower right corner of sheet., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 15 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and The word "Suppressed" written in ink below title; date "Nov. 1820" added in lower right.
Publisher:
Published by Benbow, 169 Strand
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
"A leech with the head and barrister's wig of Leach is coiled round an upright cylindrical document to which is tied with red tape a second bill; these are respectively 'Bill of Pains . . .' [see British Museum Satires No. 13825] and 'Divorce'. Propped against the former are two green bags (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), both closed with a large red seal on which is a 'G.R.' monogram. These are inscribed 'Fill'd with Filth and Lies!!!' and 'Lies . . . [L]ies'. With them are other large documents: 'List of Witness[es] against Q . . . N'; 'Expen[ces] & Bribes at Milan'; 'Protoc[ol]' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13764). The small shambling Wilberforce is being pushed towards the leech by Castlereagh (left), who is a pendant to the more stalwart and bulky Duke of York (right). The Duke wears uniform, holds his unsheathed sword, and has a pyramid of cannon-balls crooked in his left arm. A paper, 'Bp Osnabu[rgh]', is thrust through his sash. He says fiercely: "Rascals! Villains!! Traitors!!! I have set the Claret running in One Place, and if any of you attempt, to deprive me of My succession, I will make your Bodies, a thoroughfare for York dumplings!! alias Artillery Bolouses." Castlereagh, with a scourge hanging from his pocket, says to Wilberforce: "O dear! O dear! That Bishop quite alarms me, now my dear Christian Friend, pray do persuade that great Horse Leech to muster up all his Italian Witnesses [see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.] immediately or that Military Bishop [cf. British Museum Satires No. 11227] will send us to Kingdom come along with out Master." Wilberforce holds a book: 'New Litany &c'; a Pet[ition] To Q--N' is under his arm; a paper, 'Slave Tra[de]' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8793) hangs from his pocket. He says: "Pray Sr--Horse Leech, endeavour to stop the Q--'s mouth by bringing the whole host of Witnesses, before the L--ds, so as to Crush Her at once, otherwise that Terrable Bishop, will send us into Abrahams bosom, sooner, than We wish.""--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es"., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 69 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "D. York," "Sir John Leach," "Wilberforce," and "Londondery [sic]" identified in ink at bottom of image; date "16 Aug. 1820" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Carlile, 55 Fleet Stt
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Leach, John, 1760-1834, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Worms, Parasites, Wigs, Bags, Documents, Divorce, Military uniforms, British, Daggers & swords, and Cannon balls
"Gloomy and agitated Ministers stand round Eldon who sits glumly on a sack (the Green Bag as in British Museum Satires No. 13954), from which issues a puff of smoke. Wellington and Liverpool are conspicuous, with Sidmouth (with his clyster-pipe) and Castlereagh; two others are poorly characterized. Canning runs off in the background (right), see British Museum Satires No. 13737, &c. In the middle distance the King and a bishop distractedly embrace. Behind is the sea, with (?) the royal yacht departing. (The Queen has triumphed.) P. 24: Y, for the youths of the Archer's delight, Dumb with astonishment--pale with affright! ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Y, for the youths of the archer's delight, dumb with astonishment - pale with affright! ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lawyers, Depression (Mental state), Bags, Smoke, Medical equipment & supplies, Bishops, Beaches, Hugging, and Yachts
"The Green Bag explodes, throwing into the air Eldon, Liverpool, Sidmouth, and Castlereagh. With these fly up the clyster-pipe and scourge of the last two, and papers: 'Rastelli's Pasport' [see British Museum Satires No. 13903], 'Majocchis Evidence' [see British Museum Satires No. 13827], 'Madle Demonts Evidence' [see British Museum Satires No. 13856], 'Sacchi's Evidence'. The explosion is due to a beam from a mirror (right) inscribed 'Lens of Truth'. P. 25: Z, for the Zanies, in frantic despair, Their bag of combustion blown into the air; ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Z, for the zanies, in frantic despair, their bag of combustion blown into the air ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820., Mounted on page 13 of: George Humphrey shop album., and Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820., Majocchi, Theodore, active 1820., Rastelli, Giuseppe, active 1820., Sacchi, Giuseppe, active 1820., and Rosco.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Lawyers, Bags, Explosions, Medical equipment & supplies, Whips, Optical devices, and Documents
"A version of British Museum Satires No. 1231 with the additon of, to left behind the pulpit, a table on which lies a bag from which fall a bishop's mitre, papal tiara, cross, orb, broken sceptre and a divided crown, and at the foot of the pulpit, an open copy of the Book of Common Prayer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below image: A true blew priest a Lincey Woolsey brother ..., and Subject identified in pencil below plate line.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Bags, Pulpits, Miters, Scepters, Crowns, and Wash tubs
A full-length portrait of a man wearing a long jacket and hat. The outlines of his body and clothing are cut from a single sheet and defined using a pinpricks, with watercolor additions to the jacket and hat. The man's face, the bag of money he holds, and the platform he stands on are drawn entirely in watercolor on the mount
Description:
Title and approximate date of production from dealer's description. and Artist unidentified. The pinprick portion of the design may derive from a commercial pattern, as nearly identical examples are known (but finished differently).
The interior of a loft stacked with sacks, an angry countryman ferociously prods one with a pitchfork, while a handsome young woman stands in alarm behind him in the doorway. From the sack projects the terrified head and hands of the woman's lover; his queue indicates a military officer. A white owl flies under the rafters
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Rowlandson., Compare to a print (in reverse) published 16 May 1807 by R. Ackermann: I smell a rat, or, A rogue in grain. See no. 10814 in v. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Hiding places, Adultery, Couples, Hiding, Bags, Pitchforks, and Surprise
