341.
- Published / Created:
- August 12, 1821.
- Call Number:
- 821.08.12.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Queen Caroline reaches the top step of a flimsy double-ladder, pushed by the foremost of a train of gnome-like Jacobins who scramble up behind her or wait (right) to ascend. She holds a blazing firebrand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14145) emitting clouds of smoke, with which she tries to reach the royal crown (irradiated), which rests on a cushion and Bible, on the summit of a pillar representing the Constitution. A mitre and crosier are carved on the pillar which is spiralled with a band inscribed (reading upwards) 'Commons', 'Lords', 'King'. On the square base are the equally balanced scales of Justice. The Queen wears a feathered hat and an enormously long cloak, under which the Radicals on the ladder are sheltering. These wear caps of Liberty (or Folly) with tricolour cockades; one has a dagger, one a pike, one (Hunt) a bludgeon, one holds the shaft of a banner, inscribed 'Democracy Republic', topped by a cap of Liberty. The rungs of the ladder are: 'Spa Fields Riot'; 'Smithfield', Hunt climbs from one to the other; 'Hunts Procession'; 'Peter[loo]'; 'Cato Stre[et', see No. 13707, &c.]; 'Queens Arrival' [see No. 13730, &c.]; 'Radical Address' [see British Museum Satires No. 13934, &c.]; 'Mob Government' [the top]. The back of the ladder (reading downwards): 'Revolution'; 'Anarchy'; 'Ruin'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a smaller version of the same design
- Description:
- Title etched below image., A smaller version of this design, signed "G. Cruikshank fect.", was published October 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine; see no. 13895 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. This larger version is briefly mentioned at the end of the above catalogue entry: "An enlarged version was published by Humphrey, 12 Aug. 1821 ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Firebrands -- Royal crowns -- Constitution -- Mitre and crosier -- Scales of justice -- Cap of folly -- Daggers -- Weapons: pike, bludgeon -- Sticks: bludgeon., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 39.1 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 40 x 25 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Imperfect; digit "1" in the day of publication "12" in imprint has been erased from sheet., and Manuscript "61" in upper center of plate.
- Publisher:
- Published 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., and Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835
- Subject (Topic):
- Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Spa Fields Riot, London, England, 1816, Ladders, Columns, Torches, Crowns, Bibles, Capes (Clothing), Liberty cap, Daggers, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The radical ladder [graphic].