A late arrival at Mother Wood's [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. June 19, 1820, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
[19 June 1820]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.7 x 38.9 cm, on sheet 29 x 42 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 13734

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: 1821 -- Male costume: 1821-- Parsons.
Caricatures II ; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-267.
Manuscript "267" in upper center of plate.

Abstract:

"Queen Caroline, stout and flamboyant, stands on the balcony over the porch of Wood's house in South Audley Street, looking down complacently with folded arms at the cheering crowd which fills the street. Alderman Wood stands cringingly behind her. A boy sits on a lamp-bracket, looking up, saying, "I've got a good place Jack I can see the whole of her." A sailor climbs one pillar of the porch, a little chimney-sweep swarms up the other. A man on horseback says: "Come down you Smutty." Another man shouts: "Clap my Boy! Clap her!!" A boy with newspapers inscribed 'Times', bawls: "Never Vas sich Times as these" [a catch-phrase]; cf. British Museum Satires No. 13729. The street is densely packed; spectators wave from the opposite windows and balcony. In the distance is a church, on the roof of which are spectators; one looks through a telescope, another asks "Can you see it." On the extreme right a parson on horseback is assailed with mud and brickbats."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, G. 1773-1831? [Publisher]

Topics:

Balconies
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Cheering
Chimney sweeps
Clergy
Crowds
Humphrey, G. 1773-1831
Sailors
Telescopes
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1820
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1820

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

George Humphrey shop album

Call Number:

820.06.19.01+

Orbis Record:

9308171

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr12204

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10969015

PID:

digcoll:974742