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- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Jany. 22, 1821.
- Call Number:
- 821.01.22.01
- Collection Title:
- Page 7. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Queen, grossly caricatured, sits on a zebra which stands in a round band-box with a hinged and upturned lid inscribed 'a Present from Baro Bergami'. The zebra has the (profile) head of Wood, looking with greedy and imbecile satisfaction towards a sieve of food inscribed '[Wa]rden of St Catherine'. This is held out by two hands projecting from the left margin. The Queen, with a grin both calculating and insane, sits full-face, negligently holding reins attached to Wood's mouth, her left hand on her hip. She sits in a smaller (bottomless) band-box which surrounds her from hips to knees, the left leg, in frilled drawers, being thrust forward from beneath it. She wears a décolletée dress; on her head is an erection of feathers and flowers rising from a circlet inscribed 'Wood'. An owl (cf. British Museum satires no. 14199) flies by her head. In the background is Brandenburgh House, in front of which is a braying ass."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Queen's ass in a band-box
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., and Brandenburgh House (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Boxes, Donkeys, Owls, and Zebras
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Q-n's ass in a band-box [graphic].