Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, is greeted by people from Marylebone. Etching by Th. Hook, 1820.

  • Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841.
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[1820]
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589425i
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On the right are the buxom Queen Caroline and (extreme right) Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, her chamberlain. Left and behind, unrefined working class people from Marylebone who have come to greet her: the print ridicules their pretentions. The queen takes the hand of a stunted man with splayed legs and a bottle labelled 'gin' in his pocket. Two other men approach her for her hand. A cleric standing to right of her with one hand raised, holding a paper inscribed 'Socinian greed' under his arm and holding 'answe(rs)' in his hand, is identified in the British Museum catalogue as Robert Fellowes, reported to have written the Queen's replies to Addresses. A clumsy fat woman falls over in her attempt to approach the Queen losing a shoe and knocking over several men in the process. In the centre a man approaches the Queen holding an address inscribed with the parody-working-class names "Samuel Soot", "Titus Tripe", and "Jerry Sneak"

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[London] : [W. Wright], [1820]

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1 print : etching ; image 11.5 x 20.9 cm

Lettering

The free and easy sort shook well The r-l hand like friends The sheep-faced, sidling backwards fell upon their nether ends. Part 6. T. H. fect.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 10, London 1952, no. 13934

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Wellcome Collection 589425i

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