The genius of history, or, Dressing for a masked ball at Naples [graphic]

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Title: The genius of history, or, Dressing for a masked ball at Naples [graphic]
Alternative Title: Dressing for a masked ball at Naples
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, attributed name
Contributor: Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. October 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James St.
Abstract: "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
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."
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.
Provenance: Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone." William Reese Company; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.3 x 27 cm, on sheet 23.9 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English