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Author/Creator:Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
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Title:A private address, or, Address to the sun [graphic].
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Publication:[London] : Pub. Oct. 20, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic], [20 October 1820]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 32.5 x 23 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Status:No information available
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Notes:Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
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Provenance:Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; September 2014.
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:laid paper
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Notes:Title etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Summary:"Probably based on G. Cruikshank's 'Boney's Meditations . . .', British Museum Satires No. 12593 (1815), an adaptation of Gillray's 'Gloria Mundi', British Museum Satires No. 6012. The place of Napoleon is taken by George IV (right) who stands on the globe, staggering back from the rays of the sun which contains (in place of his own head) a bust portrait of the Queen (left). He repeats a parody of Milton's lines from 'Paradise Lost': "--To Thee, To Thee, I call!!! but with no friendly Voice & add thy Name oh Queen!! To tell thee how I hate those beams that bring to my Rememberance from what state I'm fallen." On the globe is a map with lines of latitude and longitude; the King's left foot is on a frontier between 'England' and 'Hanover' (towards which he staggers), as if to suggest that he will retire to Germany, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13974. A cherub flies above the Queen holding up a ribbon inscribed 'Innocent', and frowning down at the King. A woman resembling Mrs. Quentin in British Museum Satires No. 13897, emerging from behind the globe, tugs anxiously at the King's coat-tail."--British Museum online catalogue.
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In_: Humphrey, G., 1773-1831?, collector. George Humphrey shop album. [London], [not after 1821] Page 38.
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Variant and related titles:Address to the sun
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 13896
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Subjects:George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Quentin, Georgina--Caricatures and cartoons.
Globes.
Sun.
Putti.
Ribbons.
Adultery.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831?--Ownership.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1820.
Etchings--England--London--1820.
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Also listed under:Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
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