Isaac Robert Cruikshank
British, b.1789, d.1856
Preparing The Witnesses - A View In Cotton Garden
- 1820
- Etching
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 204 x 356mm
- 74/25
Tags: barrels (containers), bathtubs, bottles, cartoons (humorous images), drinking, masks (costume), men (male humans), people (agents), playing cards, political art, politicians, text (layout feature), wigs, words
This print depicts the witnesses in the trial of Queen Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821), consort of King George IV, being prepared to give evidence of her immorality, thus facilitating a divorce from the King. The witnesses are Italian and are set to testify of her adulterous affairs while exiled in Italy.
Item 13824 in 'Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum', volume X, 1820-1827, by M. Dorothy George (British Museum, 1952)
Published in 'The Strand', August 1820.
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Art and politics
As New Zealand prepares to go to the polls on the eve of what has surely been the most colourful election campaign season in the nation's history, we present a selection of works from Christchurch Art Gallery's collection on the theme of politics.