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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Degradation
wood engraving
162 x 102 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2080
Published:
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printed directly below image: So let him stand ... / Byron.
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 only quotation text attached.
Summary:
A scene in church, where King George IV, wrapped in a sheet, does penance, standing on a stool. The congregation stare from two pews, behind which is the pulpit; a bishop preaches, with a minatory hand towards the culprit. Behind the King are tables of the Ten Commandments, on which the seventh, ninth, and tenth are inscribed.
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