- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 30, 1821.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 44. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A parody of British Museum Satires No. 10979 by Gillray. Queen Caroline and her supporters, realistically depicted, sleep round the dinner-table after dessert (at Brandenburgh House), their dreams are supported on clouds which hide the upper part of the wall. The Queen (left), dressed much as in British Museum Satires No. 14103, but with trailing draperies, lies back in an arm-chair, arms extended, her knees crossed and shoes kicked off. She wears the accustomed miniature of Bergami, see British Museum Satires No. 13858; her bracelets are inscribed 'C B'. Lieut. Flinn leans on the back of her chair, looking down at her protectingly, the only one awake. At her right hand sleeps Joseph Hume, identified by a paper in his pocket: 'Humes motion upon Queenboro'. Facing him and on the Queen's left sits Lady Anne Hamilton, wearing a feathered (Scots) bonnet. In an arm-chair facing the Queen Alderman Wood (right) leans back, one thin leg on the table. On his right is Dr. Parr; on his left Hownam, in naval uniform, bestrides his chair with his back to the table, his head buried in his hands which are folded on the back of his chair (inscribed 'C R'). Decanters are labelled 'C BR'; a (gold) centrepiece for fruit is supported by three naked nymphs. On the floor are glasses and many more decanters: 'Brandy' (by the Queen); 'Rum', 'Madeira', 'Port' by Wood. The carpet is patterned with hearts and arrows. In the centre of the wall is a large fireplace flanked by fire-screens, each with a half length portrait surmounted by a crescent. On the chimneypiece are three dancing figurines: the Queen apparently as Columbine (see British Museum Satires No. 14120) between a Turk (Mahomet, see British Museum Satires No. 13929) and a Harlequin (Bergami as in British Museum Satires No. 14120). Two bell-pulls terminate in satyrs' heads; similar heads decorate the chairs. The pictures are (left) a half length of Bergami as a courier above two smaller pictures: a tent on a ship, see British Museum Satires No. 13818, and the Queen walking with Wood. On the right a half length of Bergami after his promotion above a picture of Bergami and the Queen walking together, and one of Bergami rowing her in a boat (on Como). A globe enclosing a lamp mounted with rams' heads hangs from the ceiling. On the cloud, behind the lamp, is a vision of loaves and fishes, above, an open book inscribed 'Bless the [Qu]een'. The topmost dream is a coronation, realistically depicted: the King, crowned, and Queen kneel face to face, the Archbishop about to place a crown on her head. Peeresses stand behind the Queen, peers behind the King. On the right and left are two disks of light, which illuminate the scenes below. One is 'R I G H T S' (the letters in a circle) above a view of Buckingham House ('the Queen's House'). The other is 'P R I V I LE G E S': the Queen, wearing a crown, stands on a dais, a lady kisses her hand, other ladies stand on the left and right. Below the title: 'Thus Queen Mab Gallops Night by Night Thro' Lover's brains, & then they dream of Love; Sometimes she gallops oe'r a Courtiers Nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a Place, And sometimes comes she as a tythe pigs tail Tickling the parson as he lies asleep; But, 'tis the baseless fabric of a Vision, that leaves not a rack behind. Altered from Shakespeare.' ['Romeo and Juliet', I. iv; 'Tempest', IV. i.]."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Castles in the air! Glorious prospects!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 44 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Tables, Chairs, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Dreaming, Miniatures (Paintings), Hats, Bottles, Drinking vessels, Fruit, Floor coverings, Fireplaces, Figurines, Light fixtures, Coronations, and Bishops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Delicious dreams! [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- June 1st, 1821.
- Call Number:
- 821.06.01.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Caricature of Queen Caroline, accompanied by Bergami, crowning with a wreath a bust with a Phrygian cap in the palace of Murat, accompanied by Pauline Borghese to whom a courtier hands a card labelled 'Principessa Paulina'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The loyalty, well held to fools, does make our faith mere folly.", For a smaller version of this design, etched by George Cruikshank as one of four designs on a single plate, see no. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825, and Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1767-1815.
- Subject (Topic):
- Castles & palaces, Interiors, Sculpture, Liberty cap, and Wreaths
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > National love! [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- August 6th, 1821.
- Call Number:
- 821.08.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A burlesque coronation of the Queen. She sits enthroned on a dais, raising her right foot with tipsy joviality. In her right hand as sceptre is a rod topped by a tiny cask which a naked Bacchus bestrides. The orb in her left hand is a decanter; on her head is a tilting punch-bowl. She watches her champion Wood (left) (acting the part of Dymoke, cf. British Museum Satires No. 14193), a grotesque figure in armour on a caparisoned ass (see British Museum Satires No. 14146). He has just thrown down the glove, pulling his braying mount on to its haunches, and looks up with a fatuous stare at the Queen. His helmet is topped by an owl from which clouds of smoke ascend (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14196). John Bull (right), a 'cit' wearing an ill-fitting wig and top-boots, stoops to pick up the glove, supporting himself by a cudgel inscribed My God My King a[nd my] Country. Between these two foreground figures stands a ragged newsboy holding his horn, the paper in his cap inscribed Brandy burgh [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14191] Gazette; slung from his shoulders is a large sheaf of his newspaper, Brandyburg Gazette Extraordinary--Baron B.....i to be Il Baron par Excellence--Ad- W - - d to be Earl Log [see British Museum Satires No. 14189]--Lady A H [Anne Hamilton] to be Spinster for Life--L. H - - d to be Marquis Doodle. Attendants are grouped round the Queen on the dais, which is under festooned curtains. These are (left to right): Denman and Brougham, in wig and gown, applauding and gesturing; two turbaned Turks; Bergami, handsome and complacent, at the Queen's right hand. Slightly behind are a simian face, Lady Anne Hamilton wearing the feathered Scots cap of British Museum Satires No. 14175, and another woman, Italian in appearance (probably Countess Oldi). Behind the Queen's chair on the right are two hooded figures, the more prominent, who holds a decanter, being Viscount Hood, the other perhaps Keppel Craven. Two naval officers must be Hownam and Flinn. On the canopy of the throne behind the Queen are her arms; the quarterings are wine-glasses, bottles, a tent (see British Museum Satires No. 13818), and a bath containing a tiny figure (see British Museum Satires No. 13819). The supporters are a satyr and a goat; the motto, Bergami and My Bottle [see British Museum Satires No. 14175]. On the extreme left, supported on Gothic arches, is a gallery crowded with ladies, as in Westminster Abbey at the Coronation. On a lower level, seen through the arches of the Abbey, is a dense proletarian crowd with banners, pikes, and caps of Liberty. The characters are indicated by inscriptions divided by vertical lines, as in British Museum Satires No. 14182, and centred by a cartouche. These are (left to right): Mobility in Attendance. The Champion of Absolute Wisdom [see British Museum Satires No. 13899] on his renowned Steed. The Keepers of her Majesty's Conscience [her Counsel]. Her Majesty's Lord Great Chamberlain Her Majesty's Privy Counsellor Knight Commander of the Bath Chief Performer of the Canopy Service and Courier Extraordinary [Bergami]. Hooded Doodles in Waiting [Lord Hood and his companion]. Barons of the Bedposts. Performers of the Canopy Service [the naval officers]. In the cartouche: If any Person of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Puppet C . r . l . . e Columbina [see British Museum Satires No. 14120] of Brandy-burgh House, of the United Kingdoms of Soberness and Chastity, Defender of the easy Virtues &c &c the Right of being Crowned with a crown Bowl of Imperial Punch, or that she should not enjoy the same, here is her Champion, who saith he doth not care a Drug, being ready in person to lay a bet that she is, and in this wager will venture his Eighteen Pence against a Shilling wherever, and whenever his Adversary may choose."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Grand coronation of Her Most Graceless Majesty Caroline Columbina ...
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Numeral "6" in publication date is etched backwards., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with loss of text. Missing text added in ink to repaired corner, in a modern hand., and Mounted on modern backing.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Hamilton, Anne, Lady, 1766-1846, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, Craven, Keppel Richard, 1779-1851, Dionysus (Greek deity),, and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Coronations, Scepters, Armor, Crowds, Draperies, Ethnic stereotypes, Interiors, Liberty cap, Podiums, Reception rooms, and Turbans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The grand coronation of Her Most Graceless Majesty C-r-l--e Columbina, the first queen of all the radicals &c &c &c, July 19th, 1821 [graphic].