The head of the pole!!! [graphic] / SV[owl]es delt.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. 24 Augt.1820 by one of the Society for Exposing of Vice, [24 August 1820]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 37 x 26.8 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title from text below image.
Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es".
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance
Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone."
Summary
"Caricature on George IV, standing holding a placard wearing cuckold's horns."--British Museum online catalogue.