A royal salute [graphic].

Description

Title: A royal salute [graphic].
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [28 August 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Aug. 28, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic]
Abstract: A caricature of Queen Caroline embracing her lover Bartolomeo Bergami
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to William Heath in the British Museum online catalogue.
Probably an early state. For a variant state with the text "Le cannon est en bas" following title, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1949,1008.49.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Jewelry: Male earring.
1 print : etching ; sheet 23.9 x 34.6 cm.
Printed on laid paper with watermark "Weatherley & Lane 1818"; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 75 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Caroline" and "Bergami" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet.
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 : sheet 24.8 x 35.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English