Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

"The end"

Image not available
George Cruikshank
1792-1878

"The end"

Published

[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]

wood engraving
52 x 95 mm
Peel 2088
Notes
Printed below image: "Cats' Meat!" / English Cry.
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).
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

King George IV, wearing a night-cap and with one arm in a sling, lies on his back in a cat's-meat barrow, pushed by a winged boy, a degraded Cupid. Three cats, wearing coronets, look hungrily towards the barrow.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Hone, William, 1780-1842, publisher.
Hone, William, 1780-1842. Queen's matrimonial ladder.
Classification
Department