"Returning Justice lifts aloft her scale." Pope [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- "Returning Justice lifts aloft her scale." Pope [graphic].
- Creator
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
- Published / Created
- June 1st, 1821.
- Publication Place
- London and England London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Abstract
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"An emblematical and composite scene, with a realistic background intended for Lake Como, with the Villa d'Este (right), decorated with dancing figures as in British Museum satires no. 14171. In the foreground the Queen, between Bergami and Wood, falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar, supported on insecure props. She falls to the left, with Bergami, whose arm is round her waist. Wood, who holds her left hand, falls to the right, weighed down by a block inscribed 'Log' chained to his ankle. A small figure of Justice holding scales descends through the air towards them. The pillar resolves itself into separate blocks on each of which is a letter: 'M O B / I L I T Y'. A board resting on a ram's head forms the tiny platform from which the trio are falling. The pillar rests on a slab inscribed 'Adultery'. This is supported on the bewigged head of Brougham which is raised on three props: a massive broom, and two beams poised on a rectanglar cage in which sits a second and much smaller lawyer (Denman). The beams are respectively 'Sham Addresses' and 'Hired Processions' [see British Museum satires no. 14182]. These props are flanked by two ladders resting against the 'Adultery' slab, by which Bergami (see British Museum satires no. 14183) and Wood (see British Museum satires no. 13734) have reached the Queen. One (left) is inscribed 'Brass'; from it dangle emblems of Bergami: a postilion's boot, a whip, and a Maltese cross, see British Museum satires no. 13810. The other (right) is 'Wood'; from it dangle a bottle, a pestle and mortar, and a porter's knot. In the foreground (right) are thistles, emblem of 'Thistle-Wood', see British Museum satires no. 14146. On Lake Como sails (left) a one-masted vessel with a tent on its deck, the polacca, see British Museum satires no. 13818. Beyond its shores and on the extreme left are tiny buildings representing Jerusalem. A lake-side signpost, 'To Jerusalem', points in the same direction, and near it the Princess and Bergami ride side by side on asses (see British Museum satires no. 13918, &c.). On the right is a travelling-carriage, with two horses and a postilion; in it sit the same couple. On the door are the letters 'C·B'. In the lake behind it the pair are seen bathing, two nude figures standing waist-deep, holding hands. Near them is an empty rowing-boat inscribed 'Como'.."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 27.3 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 23 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 79 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bergami," "Caroline," and "Wood" identified in ink below image; date "1 June 1821" written in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of twenty-seven lines from the British Museum catalogue description 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 27.7 x 23 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Como, Lake (Italy),
- Subject (Name)
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854 - Subject (Topic)
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Justice
Adultery
Boats
Brooms & brushes
Cages
Carriages & coaches
Judges
Ladders
Nudes - Subjects
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Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron > Caricatures and cartoons
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868 > Caricatures and cartoons
Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854 > Caricatures and cartoons
Como, Lake (Italy)
Justice
Adultery
Boats
Brooms & brushes
Cages
Carriages & coaches
Judges
Ladders
Nudes
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
19th century
Gee, Ernest R., 1878-1956 > Ownership
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 > Ms. notes
Gladstone, Robertson, 1805-1875 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 14959195
- Object ID (OID)
- 33246074