"The Princess of Wales, squat and fat, wearing a short transparent dress, adjusts her hair at a large glass above a console table on which lies her black mask. Bergami stands beside her, holding a scarf and a box of 'Essence Bergamy'; he wears orders (see British Museum Satires No. 13810, &c.). She asks: "Comment me trouves tu Mon cour" [sic]? He answers: "Je t'aime mieux comme" / "cela, mon Ange". Through a window reaching to the floor (right) is seen Vesuvius."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dressing for a masked ball at Naples
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 23.4 x 26.3 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 26.6 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman 1821"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 100 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Q. Caroline" and "Bergami" identified in ink below image; date "Oct. 1820" written in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of six lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. October 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Obesity, Mirrors, Grooming, Masks, and Volcanoes
"Caricature on George IV, standing holding a placard wearing cuckold's horns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. 24 Augt.1820 by one of the Society for Exposing of Vice
"Caricature on George IV, standing holding a placard wearing cuckold's horns."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker's name in statement of responsibility in the form of a monogrammatic device formed by the letters "SV" followed by a depiction of an owl and the letters "es"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 34.9 x 24.7 cm., Printed on wove paper with watermark "D. & A. Cowan"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 71 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "24 Aug. 1820" written in ink in lower right.
Publisher:
Pubd. 24 Augt.1820 by one of the Society for Exposing of Vice
"The Queen, short and grotesque but not burlesqued, takes Bergami's left arm, looking up at him amorously; he looks down complacently at her. He is tall, handsome, florid, with much curling black hair, moustache and whiskers, and wears three orders (see British Museum Satires No. 13810); a miniature of the Queen hangs from his neck (see British Museum Satires No. 13858). His much-braided (blue) tunic and white trousers embroidered with red mould his stalwart figure. She holds a pagoda-shaped parasol, wears an absurd hat of Lancer type, a décolletée over-dress open from the high waist to show frilled drawers or trousers. From her neck dangles a large miniature of Bergami. The pair are watched by a man and woman, Italian witnesses (see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.), who register astonishment in the middle distance. In the background is the Villa d'Este, on the shore of Lake Como. Below the title: 'Sure such a pair were never formed to meet by Nature' [adapted from Sheridan's 'Duenna', cf. British Museum Satires No. 13131]. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 14183. The plate is a companion to British Museum Satires No. 14109, and is depicted in British Museum Satires No. 14206."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Long and the short of the tale, or, The whole of the concern and Whole of the concern
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: A wooden substitute, or, Any port in a storm., and Mounted on page 6 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Villa d'Este, Spa,
"The Queen, short and grotesque but not burlesqued, takes Bergami's left arm, looking up at him amorously; he looks down complacently at her. He is tall, handsome, florid, with much curling black hair, moustache and whiskers, and wears three orders (see British Museum Satires No. 13810); a miniature of the Queen hangs from his neck (see British Museum Satires No. 13858). His much-braided (blue) tunic and white trousers embroidered with red mould his stalwart figure. She holds a pagoda-shaped parasol, wears an absurd hat of Lancer type, a décolletée over-dress open from the high waist to show frilled drawers or trousers. From her neck dangles a large miniature of Bergami. The pair are watched by a man and woman, Italian witnesses (see British Museum Satires No. 13762, &c.), who register astonishment in the middle distance. In the background is the Villa d'Este, on the shore of Lake Como. Below the title: 'Sure such a pair were never formed to meet by Nature' [adapted from Sheridan's 'Duenna', cf. British Museum Satires No. 13131]. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 14183. The plate is a companion to British Museum Satires No. 14109, and is depicted in British Museum Satires No. 14206."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Long and the short of the tale, or, The whole of the concern and Whole of the concern
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: A wooden substitute, or, Any port in a storm., 1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 28.6 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 29 x 22.6 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 39 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Bergami" and "Caroline" identified in ink below image; date "1 Jan. 1821" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of four lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Villa d'Este, Spa,
"George IV sits on the throne, surrounded by kneeling women; he takes the hand of Lady Conyngham, who proffers their address: "Loyal Address of the Married Ladies." She says: "We the humble and Loyal Married Ladies feel ourselves bound in due veneration to your most sacred person to present to you our sincere thanks for the many tokens of Love we the Loyal Married Ladies have laid under and we humbly acknowledge the favours our Husbands as [sic] experienced through the medium of us the Loyal Married Ladies!!!--" Behind her, a second lady, resembling Lady Hertford, looks startled. With them is a third, perhaps Mrs. Quentin. Behind the throne, which he clasps, stands Hertford (or Conyngham, cf. British Museum Satires No. 13847) holding a staff topped by antlers; he gapes at the speaker, saying, "I never heard a speech from a Lady so Cunning--." The King adds "Hum!" On his right stands Bloomfield, looking slyly sideways at his master. Both wear frilled muslin boudoir-caps. There is no dais, and on the right two grovelling women kiss, one the King's left foot, the other his thigh. A third kneels beside them. On the left is a black woman, who says: "God bless Massa he kiss his black servant in the kitchen at Brighton [see British Museum Satires No. 13208, &c.], my good Massa, make no distinction, Black or White, Massa Love'm all." On the extreme left is the profile of a noseless prostitute. On the King's throne is half a (bisected) crown, emblem of the repudiation of Queen Caroline, see British Museum Satires No. 13826."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Loyal married ladies address to the King
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue., Two lines of quoted text following title: "Which both by Art and Nature made is, "The sport of sense, the toy of ladies. Royal Fable., Watermark, mostly trimmed: 1819[?]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 82 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Typed extract of thirteen lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Quentin, Georgina, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, and Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Mistresses, Thrones, Women, Kneeling, Kissing, Antlers, Prostitutes, and Crowns
Illustration to a poetic version of Aesop’s fable of a man with an older and a younger wife; the younger plucked out all his grey hairs, and the older, the dark ones with the inevitable result
Alternative Title:
Aesop's fables. Selections. English, Man and his 2 wives, Man and his two wives, and Man & his two wives
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: The Lady's curiosity: or, Weekly Apollo. London : Printed by C. Sympson, no. 17 (1752)., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text above image. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Fourteen lines of verse engraved beneath title: A man whose years were in decline, / Had got two wives. One was a fine / Young airy thing who sung & danc'd; / The other grave, in age advanc'd, ..., Two additional lines of verse at bottom, beneath the heading "Application": Thus he that does to woman trust / Is shure to come off with the worst., "Fab. XXXII."--Above image., and Laid down on blue paper.
"An elderly parson embraces indecorously an elderly woman who stands beside the bed where her husband sleeps. A dog watches them. The scene is a poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of a later state of the print. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Furniture: chairs -- Pets., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Marriage & married life., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield.
Publisher:
Published Novemr. 25th, 1785, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"An elderly parson embraces indecorously an elderly woman who stands beside the bed where her husband sleeps. A dog watches them. The scene is a poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of a later state of the print. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Furniture: chairs -- Pets., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Marriage & married life., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Novemr. 25th, 1785, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
