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 respo...
Alternative Title:
Guildford high mettled racer
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
A barefoot man holding a tankard rides on the back of a sow, heading to the right. Behind them on the left, another man has fallen backwards losing his hat, the sow's tail having come off in his hand
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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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:
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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Clowns, Riding, and Theatrical productions
"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 ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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,
"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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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 stumb...
Description:
Title etched below image.
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
