Installation of a Knight of the Bath, or, Delicate recreations on board a polacre [graphic]

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Title: Installation of a Knight of the Bath, or, Delicate recreations on board a polacre [graphic]
Alternative Title: Delicate recreations on board a polacre
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, attributed name
Contributor: Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Abstract: "Caricature on Queen Caroline, who is sponged in her bath by Bergami, while a maid throws up her hands in horror."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attribution to Theodore Lane from a similar print, likewise bearing the signature of "Selim" and also published by George Humphrey in October 1820, that is attributed to Lane in the British Museum online catalogue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.12.160.
See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 13890.
Mounted on page 5 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; September 2014.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.2 x 27 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Etchings England London 1820
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
Bathing
Women domestics
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Bathing
Women domestics
England > 1820
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
England > London > 1820
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831? > Ownership

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