Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 1."--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 14 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
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),
"Heading to a printed broadside. Four Ministers, summoned by the King, sit at a table bending over a crown broken into two pieces. Sidmouth (right), tilting forward his seat, which is a commode, holds his clyster-pipe; in his pocket is a bottle labelled 'Strong Mixture'. He says: "There seems to have been a flaw in it for some years it only required a slight tap to do all the mischief." Liverpool, next him, says: "Some Foreign Cement or a decoction of steel lozenges [see British Museum Satires No. 13513] properly applied may stick them together for the present, but I'm afraid it won't last long, the parts seem of opposite compositions." Castlereagh says, with a sinister smile: "By the Ghost of my Father I will hold it together by a Tringular [sic] Proceeding. & whip it all round" [see British Museum Satires No. 14135]. Wellington, dressed as a field-marshal, and wearing cavalry boots with huge spurs, sits in a chair decorated with military emblems; he says: "Steel filings and leaded paste is the only Composition to be depended on." At his feet are bayonets and cannon-balls, with (left) a cannon, and a huge ball inscribed 'Bolus'. Behind Sidmouth stands George IV (right) in consultation with Eldon; he weeps, holding his handkerchief to his eye, and says, pointing to his Ministers: "Cant Sid my Tool and L--r--pl, Some how contrive to mend it." Eldon, in Chancellor's wig and gown, holds the lower end of the mace against his chin with a puzzled scowl. He answers: "Dash my Wig if I know what to do! my head's in Chancery." Beside him are two 'Old Green Bags done with' [see British Museum Satires Nos. 13735, 13986]. At the King's feet is a paper: 'Straight Jacket'. By Sidmouth's chair are papers: 'A Blister for the Radicals if they Kick up a Row'; 'A Gagging Bandage', with a pot of 'Poison for the Q . . .' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13868]. Also the words 'Filth', 'Dirt'. On the extreme left, John Bull, a stout and formidable 'cit', is seated on a bale inscribed 'Knowledge is Power' [see British Museum Satires No. 14005]. One hand is on his hip, the other on a bludgeon of 'English Oak'. He says, frowning at the Ministers: "I think the following prescription would be the best Cement, a handful of reformation; a large portion of the abolition of Sinicures [sic], a ladle full of the reduction of Taxes, with a plentiful solution of the Oil of Just Claims, and attention to the wants of an industrious part of the Community, would more safely ensure a permanent union with the separate pieces than all the cement or steel lozengers [sic] in the world." The Queen looks in through a small window, Wood looking over her shoulder; they watch the proceedings, tense and indignant. Above the King's head is a shelf of 'Chinese Toys from Hot Creek': a little pagoda flanked by figures of (left) a fat lady and a thin man (the Conynghams) and (right) a squatting obese man (the King). The last two of seven verses (of a 'New Version'): "She claims a share "To all (I swear!) "That I possess;--but mind her "Good C--tl--gh, "Look sharp--d'y' see "There's Radicals behind her. "A stronger pill "'S required still "Than G--ff--d's famous lotion; "Your brains well shake, "The corners rake, To give the jade a motion."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Disasters of a green-bag chief!!!
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
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, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., and Conyngham, Henry, Marquess, 1766-1832.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Tables, Crowns, Medical equipment & supplies, Bayonets, Cannons, Cannon balls, Crying, Ceremonial maces, Bags, and Windows
"Heading to a broadside printed in two columns. A scene in the grounds of Brandenburgh House (see British Museum Satires No. 13852). Bergami (see British Museum Satires No. 13731), dressed as a courier, capers, flourishing a whip with a long heavy lash. He points complacently to the house, where a tiny figure, the Queen, extends welcoming arms. He has thick curly hair and moustache, and from his neck hangs a miniature portrait (of the Queen). Alderman Wood, as an old woman, dressed as in British Museum Satires No. 13736, advances towards him, holding out his furred alderman's gown. On the right is the river, with a large house on the opposite bank. The verses (87 ll.) grossly attack the Queen; they end: Let that Wooden Sluggist, that old Brewer's Druggist, Return to his business once more, Sir; In a Politic School, be no longer a fool, And an advocate for an old W-, Sir: For I swear by the Gods, the King has the odds In his favour, for the loyal are many, And the Q- will at length, have to trust in the strength, Of her great Mighty Courier B-."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Messengers, Whips, Miniatures (Paintings), and Robes
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Third in a series of four prints about the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, page xlviii, note 1., "No. 3"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 14 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. by Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
"Caricature broadside with a satire of two men bowing to present a petition to Queen Caroline above three columns of letterpress."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement and price from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1975,0118.29., "Price one shilling"--Following imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 42 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Printed and Published by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs., Mounted on page 49 of: George Humphrey shop album., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.3 x 34.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly suitor in old-fashioned dress (right) and a youngish fashionably dressed woman (left) sit on upright chairs, the only furniture visible in an elegant room. He looks towards her with a gesture of deprecating reproach; she bends towards him, holding at arm's length to the left a cross and chain taken from an open jewel-box which she holds. A French window is behind her, through which appear the tops of hollyhocks. A descending staircase is seen through an open door on the extreme right. On the wall are whole length portraits of elderly husbands in well-known plays: Sir Peter Teazle ['Sch. for Scandal']; Lord Ogleby [Colman and Garrick, 'Clandestine Marriage']; [Da]vid Dawe [Cumberland, 'Wheel of Fortune']."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Four lines of verse below image, two on either side of title: When late I attempted your pity to move, why seemed you so deaf to my prayers, perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; but why did you kick me down stairs.
"A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 13895. The Queen has reached the top of the column; she is blindfolded and wears a fool's cap; but the column is shattered by the radicals, and she falls backwards, dropping sceptre and firebrand. The pedestal tilts, the column is broken in three, and the summit is being hauled down by a rope tugged at by a cheering mob of radicals with pikes. Flames and towering clouds of smoke ascend from a large fire at its base, on which a Bible inscribed 'I H S' and books of 'Laws' and 'Religion' are burning. The Black Dwarf (Wooler, see British Museum Satires No. 12988), kneeling, blows it with bellows. Crown, Bible, and cushion fall from the column. Hunt cheers the catastrophe, waving his cap, as do others. There is a tricolour banner topped by a skull and inscribed 'Blood & Plunder'. Cobbett (?) is now on the top of the Queen's ladder, with (?) Wood who cheers from a lower rung."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State from British Museum catalogue. For an earlier state published 28 October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine, see no. 13902 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., Companion print to: The radical ladder., and Mounted on page 5 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),, and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
Subject (Topic):
Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Liberty cap, Blindfolds, Fires, Bellows, and Crowds
"The Princess of Wales, squat and fat, wearing a short transparent dress, adjusts her hair at a large glass above a console table on which lies her black mask. Bergami stands beside her, holding a scarf and a box of 'Essence Bergamy'; he wears orders (see British Museum Satires No. 13810, &c.). She asks: "Comment me trouves tu Mon cour" [sic]? He answers: "Je t'aime mieux comme" / "cela, mon Ange". Through a window reaching to the floor (right) is seen Vesuvius."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dressing for a masked ball at Naples
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on page 4 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Obesity, Mirrors, Grooming, Masks, and Volcanoes