Modesty! [graphic].

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Title: Modesty! [graphic].
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, printmaker.
Published / Created: June 7, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: Caroline and Bergami sit together in an opera-box, frowning angrily at the occupants of the pit, all men, who look up at the box disapprovingly. Bergami holds a bottle labelled 'Essence of Bergamot' and wears a braided hussar uniform. Caroline is very décolletée, with loose black curls and a four-cornered headdress. The Arms of the Republic of Genoa are on the wall beside them with a harp and musical score below. The front of the box is decorated with two cupids holding a ribbon
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Her modest looks a cottage might adorn, sweet as the primroase peeps beneath the thorn."
An enlarged version of a design, one of four on a single plate, etched by George Cruikshank and published 15 June 1820. Cf. No. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 27.5 x 22.4 cm, on sheet 28 x 22.8 cm.
Printed on wove paper.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 82 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Bergami" and "Caroline" 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 26.2 x 22 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English