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Author/Creator:Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
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Title:Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation [graphic].
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Publication:[London] : Pubd. July 1821 by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, [July 1821]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 23.5 x 34 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
- Status:No information available
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Notes:1 print : etching ; sheet 23.1 x 32.8 cm.
Printed on wove paper with watermark "Fellows"; hand-colored.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Window mounted to 24.6 x 34.3 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 95 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "George Canning" identified in pencil below image; date "July 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of eleven lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
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Provenance:William Reese Company; February 2024.
Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front of the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone."
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 821.07.00.04
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Grosvenor Prints; September 2023.
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Digital version
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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; the name "George" is scored through and replaced by "Jack" written above.
Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue.
The identification of the jester as Canning is wrong. The jester has been identified as Admiral Sir Edmund Burke Nagle.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Summary:"George IV, crowned, and with orb and sceptre, sits on a coronation chair in Westminster Abbey (right). The Archbishop, well characterized, stands beside him, holding his mitre, his right hand on the chair. On the King's right hand stands Londonderry (Castlereagh) in Garter robes; other peers stand behind him. All watch the antics of Canning, dressed in parti-coloured clothes as a merry-andrew or buffoon. He kneels on the dais at the King's feet, arms flung wide; at his feet is a high-crowned hat with a peacock's feather; on the back of his tunic are the letters M P and P C. He declaims: The delight of the Nation at the Celebration of your Majesty's Coronation, the Exultation throughout the Creation exceeds all Imagination. the Expectation to which the Anticipation of this Consumation has given occasion is beyond Contemplation; we offer the Oblation of our Congratulation, without Hesitation or Trepidation; no Tribulation can effect a Cessation of the Sensation which pervades every Station; no Situation in whatever Deprivation will utter an Execration for the Association are in Preparation to effect an Extirpation of all Defamation. We hope the Expectation of a Decollation will produce Annihilation of all Deviation from strict Regulation; we submit to Subjugation without Hesitation, and we offer our Oration with gratefull Adoration upon this Jollification. The King composedly touches (or kicks) Canning's chin with his toe. Peeresses stand in a gallery across the north transept, holding their coronets. Above them is a second and more crowded gallery."--British Museum online catalogue.
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Variant and related titles:Adulation, or, A coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
Coronation oration by the Jack Pudding of the nation
Coronation oration by the George Pudding of the nation
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14199
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Subjects:George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822--Caricatures and cartoons.
Nagle, Edmund, Sir, 1757-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Interiors.
Coronations.
Spectators.
Crowns.
Scepters.
Bishops.
Miters.
Robes.
Kneeling.
Feathers.
Fools & jesters.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956--Ownership.
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898--Ms. notes.
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875--Ownership.
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Genre/Form:Watermarks (Paper)
Satires (Visual works)--England--1821.
Etchings--England--London--1821.
Annotations (Provenance)--19th century.
Watermarks (Paper)--Fellows.
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Also listed under:Fores, S. W., publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16785874