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Degradation

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George Cruikshank
1792-1878

Degradation

Published

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

wood engraving
162 x 102 mm
Peel 2080
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.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

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.

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