Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

All the majesty of the British empire!!!!

Charles Jameson Grant
active 1830-1852

All the majesty of the British empire!!!!

Published

[London] : [publisher not specified], [1832]

wood engraving
172 x 233 mm
Peel 2162
Notes
Detached from The caricaturist, no. 1, London, 1832.
Printed below, left: His Most Illustrious Majesty William the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c. &c.
Printed below, right: Her most lovely majesty Queen Adelaide.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

King William IV (left), in crown and robes, sits in an arm-chair, awkward and undistinguished. Queen Adelaide, ungainly in a trimmed décolletée dress, and with feathers in her hair, left hand at her waist makes a contemptuous gesture of admonition or dismissal towards the King.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Pickburn, J., printer.
Classification
Department