11.
- Creator:
- Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [October 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 4. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Princess of Wales, squat and fat, wearing a short transparent dress, adjusts her hair at a large glass above a console table on which lies her black mask. Bergami stands beside her, holding a scarf and a box of 'Essence Bergamy'; he wears orders (see British Museum Satires No. 13810, &c.). She asks: "Comment me trouves tu Mon cour" [sic]? He answers: "Je t'aime mieux comme" / "cela, mon Ange". Through a window reaching to the floor (right) is seen Vesuvius."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dressing for a masked ball at Naples
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on page 4 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. October 1820 by G. Humphrey, St. James St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Obesity, Mirrors, Grooming, Masks, and Volcanoes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The genius of history, or, Dressing for a masked ball at Naples [graphic]