The padlock ; to be or not to be a queen is the question [graphic].
- Edition:
- [1st state]
- Published/Created:
- London
Published April the 3rd, 1786 by S.W. Fores at his Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
[1786] - Physical Description:
- 1 print on laid paper: etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 38.8 cm., on sheet 29.1 x 40.6 cm.
- Notes:
- First state of the print ; title unaltered with additional periods and exclamation points. Cf. George 6941.
Unverified attribution to George Townely Stubbs on verso of print.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to John Motherhill, fl. 1786 -- Allusion to Catherine Wade, fl. 1786 -- Female costume: Riding habit -- Morganatic marriages -- Allustion to Isaac Bickerstaff's The Padlock -- Padlocks and chains -- Country churches -- Travesties: Hamlet -- Allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Allusion to Wanton Tom: or, The merry history of Tom Stitch the taylor.
Old Print Shop ; June 1, 1961 ; Acquisitions no.: 961-6-1-17.
Watermark in center of sheet. - Associated Names:
- Fores, S. W. [Publisher]
- Topics:
- Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings -- England -- London -- 1786
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1786 - 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
- Call Number:
- 786.04.03.01.1+
- Orbis Record:
- 7697489
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr05951
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Digital version
- OID:
- 10728099
- PID:
- digcoll:550155
