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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Remigration
Published
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
wood engraving
187 x 103 mm
Peel 2078
Notes
Printed directly below image: 'A hundred thousand welcomes!' / Coriolanus.
Printed below image and quotation: REMIGRATION. / Still pursued, when a 'wanderer.' / her child sleeps in death, / And her best friend, in England, her king, / yields his breath; / This gives her new rights-- / they neglect and proscribe her; / She threatens returning-- they then try to bribe her! / The bullies turn slaves, and, in meanness, fawn on her; / They feel her contempt, and they vow her dishonour; / But she 'steers her own course,' comes indignantly / over, /And shouts of the nation salute her at Dover!
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 quotation text and verse still attached.
Printed below image and quotation: REMIGRATION. / Still pursued, when a 'wanderer.' / her child sleeps in death, / And her best friend, in England, her king, / yields his breath; / This gives her new rights-- / they neglect and proscribe her; / She threatens returning-- they then try to bribe her! / The bullies turn slaves, and, in meanness, fawn on her; / They feel her contempt, and they vow her dishonour; / But she 'steers her own course,' comes indignantly / over, /And shouts of the nation salute her at Dover!
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 quotation text and verse still attached.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Queen Caroline steers a small boat, rowed by a sailor, through huge waves towards the cliffs of Dover. A whale with the head of George IV swims towards her spouting great columns of water at the boat, while four smaller creatures swim menacingly towards it, with the heads of Sidmouth (left), Liverpool, with a spiked profile like a narwhal, Castlereagh, and Eldon.
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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