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

Description

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.
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 23.5 x 26.1 cm, on sheet 23.8 x 26.4 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 92 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bergami" and "Caroline" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "2 Oct. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description for No. 14188 (which mentions this print) 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 23.2 x 27 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English