Isaac

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The cradle hymn. New version

1820réf. 44636London: T. Dolby 299 Strand and 34 Wardour Street Soho 1820. Broadside approx. 42 x 27 cm; hand-colored engraving approx. 16 x 23 cm text in double column 12 verses lightly creased at edges small sections of left side chipped occasional spots overall very good or better. A colorful satire depicting an infant version of a chubby King George IV shown in a cradle with the 'green bag' hanging on the wall in the background. The first verse reads "Hush! Great Babe! lie still and slumber Troops of Lancers guard thy bed Chinese gimcracks without number Nicely dangle o'er thy head." The King a bloated and whiskered infant sleeps in a cradle rocked by Sidmouth right a lean old woman wearing a cap and bag-wig who sits in a rocking-chair his clyster-pipe cf. British Museum Satires No. 9849 on the ground. The cradle is surmounted by a pagoda with bells and ornamented by two large crocodiles representing the Chinese dragons of the Pavilion cf. British Museum Satires No. 12749. On it are also a sun with a fool's cap in its disk between crescent moons. Round the cradle lie toys: soldiers mounted lancers &c. on wheels a cannon a sceptre a crown with a toy windmill stuck in it. With these are papers: 'Divorce'; 'Protocal' sic; 'Send her to Hell'. The infant holds a coral and bells and a corkscrew. Castlereagh sits over the fire warming a napkin. Canning see British Museum Satires No. 13737 walks off to the left disgustedly carrying the pan of a commode decorated with a crown and 'G.R.' On the chimneypiece are pap-boat bottle of 'Dolby's Carminative &c'. Dolby was a radical bookseller 'Dalby's carminative' a well-known remedy for infants. A large 'Green Bag' hangs on the wall. In a doorway behind Sidmouth inscribed 'French Dolls' stand two young women in evening dress stiff and impassive."--British Museum online catalogue. OCLC locates Harvard and Yale only. T. Dolby, 299, Strand, and 34, Wardour Street, Soho unknown books