The choice of Hercules [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- The choice of Hercules [graphic].
- Creator
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
- Published / Created
- May 24, 1821.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"Bergami (left), dressed as a courier, stands full-face, arms raised in astonishment; he smiles down compacently at the Princess (right), who is short, fat, very décolletée, and grossly caricatured; she puts her right arm behind his waist, pointing to the right with a coarse grin of invitation. Below the title: 'The Dame was fair; but bold and forward was her mein. Unguarded roved her eye: All soft and delicate she lightly tripped along; the clear texture of her Robe betraying every Limb and adding to the charms it seemed designed to shade. She, free and debonair, hanging round his waist (she could not reach his Neck) with winning kindness thus addressed him. Dear Youth retire with me from Toils and Perils free Leave Honor to the Wretch! Pleasures were made for Thee."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched above image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 74 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bergami" and "Caroline" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "24 May 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. - 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 of 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." William Reese Company; February 2024.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 29.9 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 30.2 x 22.7 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron - Subject (Topic)
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Adultery
Smiling
Boots - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Smiling
Boots
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17477811
- Object ID (OID)
- 33246061