"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A young man seated on a settee embraces a young woman who lies across his knees, her head resting on the arm of the settee (right). She kisses him, putting her arm round his neck."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Titles etched below images., For a later state with altered signatures, see no. 8738 and no. 8739 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th Augt. 1785 by T. Smith, No. 6 Wardour Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Military officers, Flutes, Hugging, and Kissing
Print shows Caroline, wife of King George IV, hugging and kissing Bartolomeo Bergami, her Italian lover
Description:
Title from item., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., and Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
