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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).
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.
Hone, William, 1780-1842, publisher.
Hone, William, 1780-1842. Queen's matrimonial ladder.
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