The royal extinguisher, or, The King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians [graphic] / I.R.C. invt. ; G. Cruikshank fect.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [7 April 1821]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.7 x 33.9 cm
- Notes:
- CtY-LW
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Text above image: Ah! ha! Madam Q-!, Monsr. W! Messrs. Radicals, Addressers, & Co.!! Where are you now?!!! Ah ha! ha! ha! ha!
Title etched below image.
Two lines of quoted text below title: "Confound their politick's, frustrate their knavish tricks." "God save the king"! - Abstract:
- "George IV (three-quarter length), surrounded by admiring Ministers, holds up a big extinguisher made of paper and inscribed 'Speech from the Throne', which he is about to place over a crowd of tiny Jacobins who surround the Queen and Alderman Wood. All these 'Lilliputians' are on a round table, whose top forms the base of the design except on the right. The terrified Jacobins fall on to papers inscribed 'Libels', 'Address' [twice], 'Sedition'. Alderman Wood steps on the back of one in a frantic effort to escape with the Queen whom he holds in his arms. She is a fat virago, holding up a fire-brand (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13895) inscribed 'Sedition', whose smoke rises into the extinguisher, and a large money-bag, '50 000 per Ann', labelled 'Crumbs of Consolation'. Other Jacobins flee to left and right, escaping the extinguisher, but either falling calamitously from the table, or about to be grasped by the hand of Eldon who sits at the table (left). They have banners and caps of Liberty on poles (or pikes). Among the fugitives is a Don Quixote (left) in armour, wearing Mambrino's helmet, galloping off on horseback, holding a banner. A terrified Jacobin (right) drops a 'Tailors Adress'. Ministers watch the approaching extinction with pleasure: Eldon has a grim smile, Sidmouth and Castlereagh behind him register, one eager delight, the other bland satisfaction. Wellington (right), close behind the King, smiles triumphantly, Liverpool beside him, is in profile, surprised, pleased, and imbecile. The King, three-quarter length, is a cynical Adonis, in military uniform. Behind his head is a framed picture: an irradiated sun containing features dispels dark clouds, putting bats, serpent, owl, &c., to flight; beside it is a dark disk containing the features of the Queen, in eclipse (reversing the situation in British Museum Satires No. 14012)."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians
King of Brobdingnag and the Lilliputians - Topics:
- Banners.
Crowds.
Documents.
Fire extinguishers.
Liberty cap.
Military uniforms.
Money.
Politicians--England.
Tables.
Torches. - Topics:
- Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart,--Viscount,--1769-1822--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Caricatures and cartoons.
George--IV,--King of Great Britain,--1762-1830--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831?, publisher.
Humphrey, G.--(George),--1773-1831?--Ownership.
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson,--Earl of,--1770-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Quixote,--Don (Fictitious character)
Sidmouth, Henry Addington,--Viscount,--1757-1844--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley,--Duke of,--1769-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Wood, Matthew,--Sir,--1768-1843--Caricatures and cartoons. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1821.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1821. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- George Humphrey shop album.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Orbis Record:
- 13878870
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr35216
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 14145
- OID:
- 16816991
- PID:
- digcoll:4771989
