The Queen's matrimonial ladder
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William Hone
The Queen's matrimonial ladder
woodcut
'Toy' 12 1/8 x c. 2 7/16 in. Each compartment, c. 3/4 x 2 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2090
Published:
[London] : [Printed by and for William Hone, Ludgate-Hill], [1820]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
A cardboard "toy" sold with The Queen's matrimonial ladder : a national toy with fourteen step scenes and illustrations in verse, with eighteen other cuts (London: William Hone, 1820).
Summary:
A strip folded at the hinge of the "ladder"; each rung, with its title, forms the base of a tiny scene, with white figures on a black ground.
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