Travelling tète à tetè!! [graphic].

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Title: Travelling tète à tetè!! [graphic].
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: Caricature of Queen Caroline sleeping side by side with Bergami as seen through the window of an elegant stage coach as they are observed by an astonished postillion. On the top of the carriage are two cases with the initials CB (Caroline of Brunswick) and on the carriage door, a coat of arms with a sleeping lion and unicorn
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two lines of quoted text below title: "Ha! Ha! by gar, vat dat I see yonder, dat look so tempting red and vite?"
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 27.7 x 22.6 cm..
Printed on wove paper.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 87 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.
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