Bat, Cat and Mat how happy could I be with either. [graphic]

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Title: Bat, Cat and Mat how happy could I be with either. [graphic]
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: June 1, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: Caricature with Queen Caroline with her arms linked to those of Bergami and her lawyer, as they step along the road between St Omer and Calais. The Queen wears a watch at her waist and two miniature portraits hang from cords at her bosom. In the background her coach awaits with a coachman in tall boots smiling at the scene. A re-issue with new background of a plate first published on 19 January 1821
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Reissue, with the plate extensively reworked; a new background and new borders have been added, the title and publication line have been re-etched, and slight changes to the figures have been made. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0118.30.
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 with stipple ; sheet 28.6 x 22.1 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 80 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 pencil below image.
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 28.2 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English