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
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
"Ministers, much burlesqued, registering terror or anxiety, are grouped on either side of a large bottle of 'Evidence against the Queen' from which rise clouds of smoke, inscribed 'Lies' (four times) and 'Non mi Ricordo' [five times]. On the left sits...
Alternative Title:
Song of sixpence
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Sep. 8, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Gifford, Robert Gifford, Baron, 1779-1826, and Harrowby, Dudley Ryder, Earl of, 1762-1847
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Anxiety, Fear, Bottles, Smoke, Evidence (Law), Chairs, Daggers & swords, and Medical equipment & supplies
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
"A caricatured old man shown half-length to right, sipping from a small glass and his arms around a bottle, resting his elbows on a table, wearing tattered clothes and a hat over a scarf around his head; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, ...
"Two men engaged in a fist-fight in centre: the one to left (Daniel O'Connell) punching the other (Lord Althorp); to left, a man holding up a bottle in his left hand (Richard Lalor Shiel); a man standing to far left watching in excitement (Edward Sout...
Alternative Title:
Fancy sketch : showing a select specimen of the cross-palpable
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Sheil, Richard Lalor, 1791-1851, Ruthven, Edward Southwell,, Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866, Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, 1776-1869, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Inglis, Robert Harry, Sir, 1786-1855
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Fighting, Bottles, Clocks & watches, Spectators, and Conversation
