An arm-full of love [graphic].

Description

Title: An arm-full of love [graphic].
Alternative Title: Armful of love
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G. 1773-1831?, publisher.
Published / Created: April 30, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: "The Queen (left), short, fat, and grotesque, stands on tiptoe, on an ornamental slab, to reach Bergami who stoops to kiss her. She wears feathered hat, lace-edged pelisse, and short, projecting skirt. He is dressed as a postilion, with a short furred jacket, his whip projecting from a pocket. The floor is carpeted. Below the design: 'This, to be fact is now admitted even by the Opposition!!! She doesn't stand upon trifles.' The plate is depicted in British Museum Satires No. 14206."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching with roulette ; plate mark 31.6 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 31.9 x 25.1 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 67 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Caroline" and "Bergami" identified in ink at bottom of sheet; date "30 Ap. 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 23.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English