A satire on Queen Caroline's alleged affair with Bartolomeo Bergami. On the left is the figure of Queen Caroline, with a parasol in her right hand and holding the hand of a child with her left hand. The child says "Only look- how he kicks!!" Her response is "Yes, yes, child- Many will be upset before it's over.-" The donkey, wearing a rosette and elaborate saddle, bucks his rider, Bergami, who says "I'm not a great rider - I only ride a Donkey!!!" A servant dressed in oriental costume makes reference to himself and his master, saying "My master and I are both Greeks." The grotto behind the servant has a sign "Grotto. Villa d'Este"; above the grotto is a wind vane with an arrow pointing left on which is inscribed "Non mi Recordo." The white structure of Villa d'Este proper is seen on the left above the bushes, with Lake Como and the mountains beyond in the center background. In the foreground, amongst the flowers, is a potted orange tree on the left and a potted pineapple on the right
Alternative Title:
Guildford high mettled racer
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from other prints depicting Queen Caroline and Bergami at Villa d'Este on Lake Como. Cf. Nos. 14103 and 14171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 15 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Como, Lake (Italy),
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Villa d'Este, Spa,
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Donkeys, Riding, Umbrellas, Whips, and Servants
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 May 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.05.02.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A country rector (identified as Rev. Sam Peck, tutor, in the British Museum catalogue) rides on a cob horse towards Cambridge (as shown by the road sign); from his pocket is seen a piece of paper "[N?]ext Chap. xx". Two pigs look up at him as he rides by on the country road. In the distance is a country church; people walk around the churchyard
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Tutors -- Road to Cambridge.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 2, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Peck, Sam, Reverend, active 1772.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Horses, Riding, Swine, and Traffic signs & signals
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 May 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 3. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A country rector (identified as Rev. Sam Peck, tutor, in the British Museum catalogue) rides on a cob horse towards Cambridge (as shown by the road sign); from his pocket is seen a piece of paper "[N?]ext Chap. xx". Two pigs look up at him as he rides by on the country road. In the distance is a country church; people walk around the churchyard
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Tutors -- Road to Cambridge., Mounted on page 3 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 20.4 x 25.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs May 2, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Peck, Sam, Reverend, active 1772.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Horses, Riding, Swine, and Traffic signs & signals
"Grimaldi as a clown/jockey riding on the back of a giant sheep following Norman riding on a horse too small for him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mr. Grimaldi and Mr. Norman in the Epping Hunt from the popular pantomime of the Red Dwarf
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Clowns, Riding, and Theatrical productions
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A fashionably dressed man rides a stag with the head and bust of a pretty young woman with dark ringlets and roses in her hair. A lean German runs after him, holding out a pair of large antlers, saying, O, ho! my-lor, here de Horn my-lor--she friget [sic] de horn, take dem, A, ha! par-blue, by Gar I vil have de damage. The rider, turning his head in profile, and warding off the gift, answers: No. No. Baron, you may keep them yourself, and welcome, the horns become you; my dear can do without them. The German wears flat fur cap with peak, tight fur-bordered coat. The other wears bell-shaped top-hat, blue frogged coat, and white trousers. His rein is a scarf inscribed £2,500 round his mount's chest. The animal, its hind-legs splashing the German with mud, reaches a high wall fringed with spikes, inscribed Bancus Regis, resembling that of the King's Bench prison, but here indicating the Court of King's Bench. On it, below a large inscription: Hunts Matchless Blacking [see British Museum Satires No. 15150] are many bills: [1] Coy of Sussex stolen or strayed a handsome Doe of the Roebuck breed, with black hair and scut, is supposed to be stolen by some poacher. Her owner a poor foreigner says her value is £10.000--. [2] Just Published--Crim Cram. [3] The Prodigal a New farce. [4] --Theatre, Chip of the Old Block or the Amours of one of the Peers. [5] Richmond Steam Boat the Venus with excellent accomodation & a high Poop:-- 16 Horse power. [6] Astley's, The Dejected Baron after which Mr Ducrow will manage His Celebrated Horse Pegassus. [7] Try Dr Eady [a notorious quack]. [8] Sermons By the Revd Mr Irvine. [9] Just Published, A Moral Lesson, or the Horn Book for the rising generation by a young lady."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on the suit of crim. con. brought by Michael Henry, Baron de Robeck, against Lord Sussex Lennox (1802-74). His wife, Mary Margaret, 2nd d. of Valentine Browne (who had married him in 1820 when under fifteen), married Lennox, Apr. 1828, on the dissolution of her first marriage."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Probably published by Thomas McLean, who was located at 26 Haymarket in 1827. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to: 31 x 46.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 for the auther [sic], 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Name):
Lennox, Sussex, Lord, 1802-1874. and Robeck, John Michael Henry Fock, Baron de, approximately 1790-1856.
"Bergami, very swarthy, dressed as a courier, rides (right to left) a galloping she-goat with the head of Queen Caroline. She smiles, holding the rein in her mouth. Both look to the picture plane, the Queen pleased, Bergami complacent. He flourishes a heavy postilion's whip with a long curling lash. Behind are trees, Lake Como, and Villa d'Este, inscribed 'Licenced Temple of Fancy'. Figures posture on the roof, as if dancing, as in British Museum Satires No. 14189. In the middle distance a man brandishing a whip is carried on the shoulders of a woman."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text below title: Set a courier on goat-back and he'll ride to the Devil., and Mounted on page 7 of: George Humphrey shop album.
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, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Villa d'Este, Spa,
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740 [that is 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 33. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in early 1740. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes Cardinal Fleury (France) falling from his fox which has stumbled at the winning post on "[Baron] Sinclair's papers". Behind the fox stands the devil holding a sheet of paper with a picture of five ships, lettered "Baltic Sea", an allusion to the French failure to form an alliance in that region. The devil pulls down one of the scales hanging from the umpire stand; the heavier scale represents the Imperial allies with swords, coins, a picture of the Imperial eagle and a note reading "ballance of power", while the lighter one holds objects connected with France and Spain, a cardinal's hat, mask, fox, and notes of "50,000 livers" and "10,000 pistoles" as well as a paper lettered "Mediation". On the umpire stand, America is in conversation with Africa while Europe embraces Asia for the sake of "Protection [of]Trade". Further to the left stands Captain Jenkins holding out his severed ear. Behind Fleury's fox runs the Spanish wolf, its rider unseated by the British lion's lashing tail, lettered "No Search Free Trade". The Russian bear, ridden by a man with a scimitar, follows; the bear kicks its hind legs at the Turkish elephant that is draped with a cloth lettered "Belgrade" in reference to the recent ceding of that city to Turkey. The sultan stands behind the elephant, offering a bag of money to a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig; a monkey also wearing a bag-wig, representing France, crouches in front of the bear. A Dutchman, smoking a pipe, stands beside a distance post having abandoned the race; his boar is laden with trade goods. Behind, on the left, the devil and a fool lead a group of Roman Catholic bishops, roped together, towards a closed building labelled "Conclave" where they will elect a successor to Pope Clement XII. In front of them seven men representing the European powers are seated at a round table with papers lettered "Alliance" and "Sinclair"; Cardinal Fleury turns aside towards another devil asking, "Extricute me now & I'm yours for ever". Further forward, a British herald, supported by classical female soldiers, blows a trumpet; beside them Fleury raises the front of his robe attempting to catch billowing smoke, lettered "Universal Monarchy". In the foreground, Time sits on his hour-glass holding a paper with a picture of a wolf dressed as a cardinal; rats chew at the bottom of the sheet; Fortune looses her grasp of Theodore of Corsica who throws his orb after his crown as it flies off on outspread wings; a British bulldog savages a Spanish wolf while a French fox runs off behind a bush; Captain Coram shows the plan of the Foundling Hospital to a woman and child seated on the ground; a Catholic ecclesiastic wrings his hands saying, "Ye have taking away my Gods, what have I more"; a man bends down to lift a chest full of "10000 pieces of Eight"; Emperor Charles VI rides on an eagle towards the finishing post, holding a shield with the British coat of arms in front of him while a shield with the fleur-de-lis falls to the ground; he is preceded by Charles Albert of Bavaria, fully armed on horseback, and carrying a shield with the motto, "Never conquered"; in front of him, a French ambassador kneels pleading with the British lion who tramples on a shield with the fleur-de-lis and prepares to fire a cannon. At lower right, Britannia pushes aside France (a woman in classical dress with a helmet, and a cock at her side holding out a paper lettered "Mediation") and points to a map showing the island of Cuba offered by a British herald and a sailor. In the background, to left, is the bay of Cadiz in which the Spanish fleet is shut up, British ships sail freely on the sea; a nymph holding a pennant lettered, "Quatuor Maria Vindico" (I claim the four seas), rides a dolphin; beyond are the island of Cuba and distant mountains. Lettering beneath on either side of a medal of a fighting cock which is itself lettereed "Aut Mors Aut Victoria" (Death or Victory)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 2449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 33 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Below title: I say Bill that'll smother the hanimal. No, it won't it's a regular resperator you see he's a little assmatic & it's reccomended.
Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man rides a hog with reckless abandon to the right, his left hand raised and an expression of glee on his face. Behind him, on the left, are a man that has been knocked to the ground and a dog that has bounded out of the way. A structure with a doorway and windows, perhaps on fire, is seen in the background on the left; a cloud or billowing smoke is visible in the sky overhead
Description:
Title and date from local card catalog record., Signed with the artist's initials at top of image., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
