Mother Cole [graphic].

Description

Title: Mother Cole [graphic].
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: July 26, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: Caricature of Queen Caroline, bedraggled and drunk as she sits slouched in an arm chair, her foot resting on a stool; she wears a hat with three ostrich feathers and around her neck hangs a small portrait (indistinct image) and holds a large glass of brandy while a servant (Alderman Wood wearing the fur-trimmed robes), his eyes cross-eyed, stands beside the chair in attendance with a decanter in hand
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Digit "6" in day of publication "26" in imprint is etched backwards.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: To brandy I flew to seek relief, but he's ne'er the less before me, ah no, no, no, brandy cannot cure, the pains I endure for Bergami.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with stipple and roulette ; sheet 29.8 x 20.7 cm.
Printed on wove paper.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 100 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Caroline" and "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image; date "26 July 1821" written in lower right corner.
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 of 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 30.3 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English