The Mother Red Cap public house, in oppsition [sic] to the Kings Head [graphic] / G. Cruikshank fect.
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 2].
- Copyright Date:
- April 25, 1821.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 15 x 22.6 cm
- Notes:
- CtY-LW
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
State from British Museum catalogue. For an earlier state published 11 November 1820 as a plate to The Loyalist's magazine, see no. 13975 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Title etched above image. - Abstract:
- "On the left is a pleasant old-fashioned tavern, 'The Kings Head', with a half length portrait of George IV in crown and robes. Ministers are seen within the open window, Castlereagh's profile on the left. A sturdy John Bull in top-boots stands outside, watching with distaste a disorderly and drunken rabble crowding round the door and (broken) window of the opposite house, the sign 'Mother Red Cap', a half length portrait of Queen Caroline, raddled and disreputable, a tricolour cockade in her conical hat. From the end of the beam supporting the sign hangs a pear (emblem of Bergami, see British Museum Satires No. 13869). The house (right) is a ruinous timber structure, shored up by beams. The crowd have a banner of a woman's shift inscribed 'Un Sun'd Snow NB "The Times" Taken in Here.' A man plays drum and pan-pipes. One man empties a bottle of spirits inscribed 'Queens Mixture' down the throat of a drunken fellow lying on his back. A fat man has a tankard of 'Qu[een's] Entire'. The two inns are respectively placarded 'The Original Brunswick House of Call for Loyalists--Pure Wine--Good Spirits --Sound Ale'; and 'The Brunswick Radical House of Call Italian Wines Bergamy Perry [cf. British Museum Satires No. 13869] No Adulteration! NB Good accomodation for all sorts of Cattle. Whitbread's Entire [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10414]--Small Beer.' In the background is a church tower among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, descr
- Variant Titles:
- Mother Red Cap public house, in opposition to the Kings Head
Mother Red Cap public house, in oppsition to the Kings Head - Topics:
- Alcoholic beverages.
Banners.
Churches.
Crowds.
Crowns.
Intoxication.
Pears.
Politicians--England.
Robes.
Street musicians.
Taverns (Inns) - Topics:
- Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami,--Baron.
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart,--Viscount,--1769-1822--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.
Whitbread, Samuel,--1764-1815. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1821.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1820. - 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:
- 13885432
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr35254
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 13975A
- OID:
- 16817020
- PID:
- digcoll:4772018
