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C1814
The Ratification of Peace or the Military Mediator.
Artist:
Rare caricature of a scene in Carlton House (the King’s London residence) with the Prince Regent his arms extended in a graceful gesture, receives the Duke of York holding the hand of Princess Charlotte. She partly conceals herself behind her … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Ratification of Peace or the Military Mediator.
Date:
C1814
Artist:
Condition:
Crease at lower right corner, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
330mm
x 222mm
Paper Size:
461mm
x 278mm
Platemark Size:
350mm
x 245mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1814
Description:
Rare caricature of a scene in Carlton House (the King’s London residence) with the Prince Regent his arms extended in a graceful gesture, receives the Duke of York holding the hand of Princess Charlotte. She partly conceals herself behind her uncle, but looks towards her father. The Duke is in uniform and holds his hat and says: Here is the Fugitive! I have been preaching to her (and a d_d good Sermon it was, else wherefore am J a Bishop) upon which I have articled there is to be no floging on her return!
The Regent says: I ratiy [sic] the Treaty Peace is made. On the floor beside him is an open book: ‘Triumph of Temper—by Geo Prince‘. Behind the chair, crouches the Bishop of Salisbury, in gown and mitre; from his raised right hand he lets fall a birch-rod, in his left hand is a bulky rolled document headed ‘A Sermon on the Perrogative of a Father’. He kneels on a paper: ‘Honor thy Father’; by this is a book: ‘description of Salisbury [Ca]thedral’]
The Princess, wears a fashionable mauve pelisse (Regency long coat copied from the Hussars uniform) with a trimming of olive-leaves in her small straw bonnet and says: No Preachee and Flogge to Pa!
At Connaught House on the night of 12-13 July Princess Charlotte was induced to go to Carlton House. The artist has illustrated the account given by the (pro-Regent) ‘Morning Herald’ of 14 July. She accepted ‘the proffered conciliation of an Illustrious Uncle . . . who was the bearer of an olive branch from an afflicted Father, and had the happiness to reconduct her to his arms . . .’. ‘Examiner’, 1814, p. 450. On 19 July the Duke of Sussex put a series of questions to Liverpool on the removal of Princess Charlotte, suggesting that she was kept in confinement; on 25 July he withdrew them, on learning that she had been riding in Windsor Park, and ‘hoping that more conciliatory dispositions were entertained’. ‘Parl. Deb.’ xxviii. 755-8, 835-7. The situation was further improved by a farewell visit of Princess Charlotte to her mother, who had declared her intention of leaving England for a visit to Germany. See ‘Examiner’, 31 July. Reproduced, Shane Leslie, ‘George IV’, 1926, p. 98. Reference; M. Dorothy George, ‘Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum‘, IX, 1949
References:
Bills, M. The Art of Satire. London 2006:.
McPhee, C. Infinite Jest : Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. New York 2011 ::.
Robinson, R. Caricature and the Regency Crisis: An Irish Perspective ::.
Collections:
British Museum London: 1868,0808.8166
Bills, M. The Art of Satire. London 2006:.
McPhee, C. Infinite Jest : Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine. New York 2011 ::.
Robinson, R. Caricature and the Regency Crisis: An Irish Perspective ::.
Collections:
British Museum London: 1868,0808.8166
Charles Williams (1790 - 1830)
Williams was a British caricaturist, etcher and illustrator. He was the main caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the London publisher S. W. Fores. In his earlier works, Williams used the pseudonyms Ansell or Argus; with George Cruikshank and others he illustrated, The Every-Day Book by William Hone. Williams was the first of many who caricatured the 1st Duke of Wellington, publishing a print of him in September 1808, during the Peninsular War, in which the Duke cuts off the pigtail of French general Jean-Andoche Junot, defeated at the Battle of Vimeiro. Almost all of his prints are anonymous. He worked for a number of publishers simultaneously, including; Fores, W. Holland, E. Walker, ,the Knight family and Tegg. Pseudonyms: Ansell, Argus, C. Lamb, Timothy Squib, Tom Truelove,
