Lady Cecilia Johnston, shown three-quarter length, turns slightly left but looking back over her shoulder as she reaches for a carafe on an elaborately carved hutch in a fashionably decorated room. She wears a dress with lace sleeves, her hair up in a...
Description:
Title written below image, a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to Lord Nunham, 7 July 1777 in reference to Lady Cecilia Johnston.
Caroline lies on a sofa within a tent, dressed in her nightclothes and wearing a miniature of Bergami around her neck; her feathered hat rests on the ground, and on the small table beside her sit bottles of "Brandy" and "Essense of Bergamo" and a cont...
Alternative Title:
Tentation
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Sofas, Miniatures (Paintings), Bottles, Candles, and Books
Satire on the the criminal conversation between the Duke of Cumberland and Lady Grosvenor with Cumberland wearing a fool's cap; a servant spills a glass of wine on the Duke. The scene takes place in a bedchamber with a curtain around the bed, with a t...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 and Grosvenor, Henrietta Grosvenor, Countess, -1828
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bon...
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lean and grotesquely ugly old parson, wearing cap and gown, sits in his college room with a pretty young woman on his knee. She puts an arm round his neck and warms a foot at a blazing fire, on which stands a large coffee-pot. Her (large) straw bon...
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat elderly woman walks (left to right) over rough cobbles, in the teeth of a strong wind against a deluge of rain; her contour is global and fills the greater part of the design. She holds a lighted lantern and clutches a bottle of cordial and a b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Midwives, Obesity, Rain, Winds, Lanterns, Bottles, Chimney sweeps, and Watchmen
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A fat elderly woman walks (left to right) over rough cobbles, in the teeth of a strong wind against a deluge of rain; her contour is global and fills the greater part of the design. She holds a lighted lantern and clutches a bottle of cordial and a b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Midwives, Obesity, Rain, Winds, Lanterns, Bottles, Chimney sweeps, and Watchmen
"The King is on the throne (right), with five advisers seated at a round table at the base of the dais; all are thrown into confusion by the arrival of a top-booted messenger (left) who rushes into the room, hair on end, yelling, "The Queen's Arrived!...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yd., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, and Manners-Sutton, Charles, 1755-1828
Subject (Topic):
Divorce, Politicians, Bishops, Messengers, Tables, Crowns, Wigs, Bottles, and Fear
