Travelling tète à tetè!! [graphic].

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Title: Travelling tète à tetè!! [graphic].
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: June 25, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: Caricature of Queen Caroline sleeping side by side with Bergami as seen through the window of an elegant stage coach as they are observed by an astonished postillion. On the top of the carriage are two cases with the initials CB (Caroline of Brunswick) and on the carriage door, a coat of arms with a sleeping lion and unicorn
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two lines of quoted text below title: "Ha! Ha! by gar, vat dat I see yonder, dat look so tempting red and vite?"
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Jarndyce; March 2019.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.6 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic): Adultery
Sleeping
Carriages & coaches
Coats of arms
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Sleeping
Carriages & coaches
Coats of arms
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership

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