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The September 2020 issue of Antique Collecting featured an article by us on collecting Drolls and Mezzotints,
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On this page we present a selection of prints concerning King George IV and his wife, Queen Caroline to mark the 200th
anniversary of her death in 1821. Caroline is often referrred to as the ‘Injured Queen’ and these prints show some of the
issues in the relationship. Click here for a short but detailed article on the issues of the marriage.
The Antique Collecting March 2021 issue has an article by us on ‘Queen Caroline, The Injured Queen’ and some of the prints are
featured here. Click right for article
‘Le Gloire des Honnetes Gens!! (The Glory of
Honest People!!’
Four designs on one plate, separated by intersecting
lines, each having a separate title, inscription, and
border. Subject is the behaviour of Caroline Princess
of Wales whilst travelling in Europe.
A hand-coloured etching, 'Sr Facto del. G Ck scupt/
Pubd June 15th 1820 by G. Humphrey 27 St James's
Street.'
Stock No SAP0860 Price £450
Caroline of Brunswick
print, 'Love at first sight'
Caroline of Brunswick is seen
dancing with Bergami in an
unseemly manner for the
wife of George IV, published
1821, 26 x 20.5cm. There is
sone foxing on this print
Stock No SAP0906
Price £150
Caroline of Brunswick
print
'A Wooden Substitute, or
Any Port in a Storm'
Caroline of Brunswick is
seen with Alderman Wood
behaving in a manner
inappropriate for a Queen of
England, att Theodore Lane,
pub 1821, 26 x 20cm
Stock No SAP0907
Price £150
Two prints concerning Queen Caroline
after her death
Left Queen Caroline’s Funeral Procession
and to right Britannia weeping at her tomb.
Pub 1821 by P & P Gally, London, in period
glazed ebonised frames of the period, 15.3 x
20 cm
Stock No SAP0886 Price £550
Queen Caroline as Boadicea, Queen of Britain
Caroline is seen here overthrowing her enemies,
humbly dedicated to Caroline Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland. Coloured etching, 25cm x 36 cm.
Published by John Fairburn, after George Cruikshank,
November 1820, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, London.
The cartoon attacked the Pain and Penalties Bill over
the divorce issue in 1820 to deprive Caroline of her
position as Queen and dissolve her marriage to George
IV. The Pains and Penalties Bill was a way using
Parliament without using the formal proofs essential
in a court of law. Caroline was allowed to attend the
hearing but not allowed to give evidence. However, the
Bill was eventually defeated in Parliament. Caroline
was, nevertheless, barred from George IV’s coronation
and died shortly afterwards.
Stock No SAP0917 Price £550
John Bull the Judge or the Conspirators At the Bar
Caricature with John Bull, playing the part of the Lord
Chancellor, condemning Queen Caroline's accusers
who stand before him. November 1820, J Fairburn,
Broadway Ludgate Hill, London, 24 x 34cm
Stock No SAP0920 Price £550
The Abyssinian Monster or the Invisible Being
drawn from his Den
Pub J Dawson, Camden Town, London, pub Dec
1820. 26 x 34 cm. George IV is shown as a
grotesque sea monster, for which the following
description is given below image: "He is of
immence size, his head and face bear the
appearance of a man, he has the neck of a bull,
the body of a huge sea hog, the legs of an
elephant, and the tail of a porpoise." The beast
lies helpless on the shore facing right, emitting a
plume from his mouth containing the words
"debauchery", "trifling", "vice", "folly", etc. Queen
Caroline's defense lawyers reign in the animal,
Brougham on the left wielding a broom and
Denman on the right holding a chain attached to
the beast's collar.
Stock No SAP0919 Price £600
A Scene from Don Giovanni
A print showing George IV, in the title role of Mozart's
opera, surprised by the sudden arrival of his wife,
Caroline, as Donna Anna, lately returned from Italy,
during the wedding feast scene, at which a number of
bare breasted women are present; on the left, Lord
Castlereagh, playing the role of Leporello, holds a long
list of the King's female conquests. Caption continues:
Don Giovanni by His M-y, Donna Anna by a celebrated
actress, her first appearance on this stage these 7
years, Leporello by Derry Down Triangle, the other
caricters [sic] by the Corps de Ballet. Fores, 23 July 1820,
16 Panton Street. Lord Castelreagh was called 'Derry
Down Triangle' for his part in the 1800 Union of Ireland
and Britain, he sold his country out! Issues also here
with Catholic Emancipation
Stock No SAP0918 Price £500