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George Cruikshank
Accusation / [G. Cruikshank].
wood engraving
4 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2075
Published:
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Detached from The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Trimmed, with quotation text and verse still attached.
Summary:
George IV, as a watchman, stands outside the door of a house holding a pole with a large bag inscribed "Beware of the Report of a Bad House"; Queen Caroline sits in the open window holding out a torch inscribed "Defence" and setting fire to the bag. Behind her stand Brougham and Denman.
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