Design for a new coat of arms dedicated to Mothers Wood, Windsor & Co. & all the fancy queens. [graphic]

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Title: Design for a new coat of arms dedicated to Mothers Wood, Windsor & Co. & all the fancy queens. [graphic]
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: May the 1, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: Caricature of a coat of arms for Queen Caroline and Bergami with the central figure with a satyr's face, a hat "Caroline Bergami gratia -- Half a crown", and white robes richly decorated with scenes from their life on an escutcheon with Chastity and Innocence as supporters, all surrounded by rich red robes lined with ermine. The scenes include: Adam and Eve, two heads peeping from a tent, a scene with Bergami kneeling before the Queen leaning in to kiss, a plump Queen jumping up like a jack-in-the box, the two in costume dancing, the Queen riding an ass. Other suggestive decorative details include ostrich plumes, ribbons with medals engraved "Night of the Dunghill" (Bergami) and Knight of the Thistle with a shield "The Times ... Lies ... Bribery". At the base, Knight of the Bath with a scene with Bergami reaching towards the Queen in her bath above a medallion "Knight of St. Columbine and Penance" surrounded by a banner "My fancy's so free, I rove like a bee."
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Later state, with publication line corrected. For an earlier state with the day of publication etched twice, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 75 H89 821.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 27.4 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 22.9 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted (with one other print) on leaf 69 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bergami" and "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image; date "1 May 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 26.4 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English