National love! [graphic].

Description

Title: National love! [graphic].
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: June 1st, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: "Caricature of Queen Caroline, accompanied by Bergami, crowning with a wreath a bust with a Phrygian cap in the palace of Murat, accompanied by Pauline Borghese to whom a courtier hands a card labelled 'Principessa Paulina'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One line of quoted text below title: "The loyalty, well held to fools, does make our faith mere folly."
For a smaller version of this design, etched by George Cruikshank as one of four designs on a single plate, see no. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 27.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 22.7 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 76 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 pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1 June 1821" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of twenty lines from the British Museum catalogue description for No. 13731 (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 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 26.6 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English