An old friend with a new face, or, The Baron in disguise [graphic].

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Title: An old friend with a new face, or, The Baron in disguise [graphic].
Alternative Title: Baron in disguise
Creator: Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820, publisher.
Published / Created: June 25, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Abstract: "A bonassus or bison (right), with the head of Bergami, is embraced by the Queen, who kneels on one knee to kiss the large face. He affectionately places a hoof on her knee. She wears white frilled trousers, with short slashed and tasselled jacket, feathered cap, scarlet high-heeled shoes with turned-up pointed toes; the usual miniature of Bergami dangles below her waist. The scene is the beast's pen. Wood, wearing his gown, rushes up from the left, arms raised, distressed at the rencontre. A grinning beefeater stands by. On the wall is a placard headed: Her Majesty | Bonassus."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Altho' Bonassus does not roar, his fame is widely known, for no dumb animal before, e'er made such noise in town.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 85 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figures of "Wood," "Caroline," and "Bergami" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "25 June 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below 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 27.3 x 22.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English