"Bergami, moustachioed, whiskered, and alluring, in a tight-fitting harlequin's suit over which is a short gold-laced jacket, sits on a tall stool, holding up a life-like puppet representing the Queen. He grasps it by the waist, and pulls a ribbon, making arms and legs fly up. She smiles delightedly down at him, her ringlets flying. She wears the décolletée over-dress of British Museum Satires No. 14103, open to show frilled and spotted drawers. Bergami, part courier, part Harlequin, has a heavy queue of hair hanging from his black curls, and wears a peaked cap with a big gold tassel. A heavy postilion's whip projects from his pocket. He is directed to the left, towards an open French window and a vine trellis, with a view of Lake Como (see British Museum Satires No. 13857). He raises his right leg, looking over his left shoulder, away from his puppet. On the floor are the courier's discarded pistol, powder-flask, holster, and saddle; behind his chair are portmanteaus, one inscribed 'B B'. A large book propped against a decanter inscribed 'A Boire' is: 'Hop Step and Jump, or, every man his own Courier. List of Postes on the high road from Dunghill, to Barona' [see British Museum Satires No. 14119]. A partly dropped curtain (right) reveals two figurines embracing below a shelf of books. The carpet is patterned with hearts."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Harlequin courier's delight
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Variant state lacking "London" at beginning of imprint statement. Cf. No. 14120 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 6 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Adultery, Fools & jesters, Puppets, and Whips
"Bergami, moustachioed, whiskered, and alluring, in a tight-fitting harlequin's suit over which is a short gold-laced jacket, sits on a tall stool, holding up a life-like puppet representing the Queen. He grasps it by the waist, and pulls a ribbon, making arms and legs fly up. She smiles delightedly down at him, her ringlets flying. She wears the décolletée over-dress of British Museum Satires No. 14103, open to show frilled and spotted drawers. Bergami, part courier, part Harlequin, has a heavy queue of hair hanging from his black curls, and wears a peaked cap with a big gold tassel. A heavy postilion's whip projects from his pocket. He is directed to the left, towards an open French window and a vine trellis, with a view of Lake Como (see British Museum Satires No. 13857). He raises his right leg, looking over his left shoulder, away from his puppet. On the floor are the courier's discarded pistol, powder-flask, holster, and saddle; behind his chair are portmanteaus, one inscribed 'B B'. A large book propped against a decanter inscribed 'A Boire' is: 'Hop Step and Jump, or, every man his own Courier. List of Postes on the high road from Dunghill, to Barona' [see British Museum Satires No. 14119]. A partly dropped curtain (right) reveals two figurines embracing below a shelf of books. The carpet is patterned with hearts."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Harlequin courier's delight
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: over-dress, drawers -- Wigs: queue -- Postilion whips -- French windows -- Trellises -- Couriers -- Guns: pistols -- Powder flasks -- Holsters -- Saddles -- Portmanteaus -- Male costume: spurs., and Manuscript "1." in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Adultery, Fools & jesters, Puppets, and Whips
"A short and broad Corinthian column standing on grass is almost covered by little scenes emblematical of social classes, from high to low. Across the centre, enclosed in a garland, the three heroes carouse, Corinthian Tom and his country cousin Jerry Hawthorne raise their glasses; Bob Logic (1.), more dandified, sprawls in his chair. Broken bottles are on the ground. The capital, Corinthian Capital, is covered with a scene at Court: George IV on the throne, lords and ladies in court dress. Inscriptions: Roses Pinks, and Tulips, and The Flowers \ of Society. Two figures flank the column immediately below the capital: Noble, a peer wearing a star, and Respectable, a stout citizen with a pen behind his ear. Between these and above the central circle, a blood drives a woman in a curricle; they are Ups and, the corresponding group below the circle and at the base of the column being Downs \ of \ Life in London: a thin, ragged, and desperate man sits on a stone between a beggar-boy and an old basket-woman. Two flanking scenes on projecting slabs are (1.) Mechanical, a knock-kneed artisan holding a frothing tankard and a hammer and (r.) Tag Rag & Bob tail, a scarecrow figure with bare legs hideously splayed, bawling a Last Dying Speech. Between these four single figures are projections from each side of the circle: (1.) Ins &, a man looking from a prison window, and (r.) Outs, a man just released and waving his hat. On the plinth: (The Base), is a tiny scene in a cellar, dimly lit by a fire; a woman smoking a pipe sits on a truckle bed; a ragged man seated on a stool smokes and drinks. Over the hearth is a gibbet broadside. On the r. a man sieves rubbish; sacks, one inscribed G C, and a spade lean against the wall. Below: Bunches of Turn-ups [turnips = ruined persons]-Vegetables, Strings of Ing-ens [onions]. The base of the whole is a slab inscribed: Here are we met three merry Boys,/Three merry boys, I trow are we,/And mony a night we've merry been,/And mony mae we hope to be. Burns. Bound in the 1821 edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. (See 1864,0611.376-412. 184.c.7)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and publication information from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in lower portion of image: Here are we met three merry boys, three merry boys I trow are we ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Lacking imprint statement. For intact imprint statement cf. no. 14320 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Pleasure of riding in company (one would stop if the other could)
Description:
Title from manuscript annotation on mount., Text at bottom of image: The pleasure of riding in company (one would stop if the other could)., Printmaker and publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1209.33-75., Plate from: Humourous specimens of riding, &c. &c. London : Thomas McLean, 1821., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Manuscript annotation on mount: Much-too-fast.
