"A bonassus or bison (right), with the head of Bergami, is embraced by the Queen, who kneels on one knee to kiss the large face. He affectionately places a hoof on her knee. She wears white frilled trousers, with short slashed and tasselled jacket, feathered cap, scarlet high-heeled shoes with turned-up pointed toes; the usual miniature of Bergami dangles below her waist. The scene is the beast's pen. Wood, wearing his gown, rushes up from the left, arms raised, distressed at the rencontre. A grinning beefeater stands by. On the wall is a placard headed: Her Majesty | Bonassus."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Baron in disguise
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Altho' Bonassus does not roar, his fame is widely known, for no dumb animal before, e'er made such noise in town., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 85 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Wood," "Caroline," and "Bergami" identified in pencil on mounting sheet below print; date "25 June 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of print. Typed extract of three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted below print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843