A dying young naval officer's widow, seated with right leg crossed over the other, in a ship's cabin, directed to right, head in profile, wearing a sprigged gown and plumed hat, making lace at a small work-table, naval coat and sword on the window-sill behind her, ship visible on the water through a second window to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Plate numbered '219' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12 May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Floor coverings, Grief, Staterooms, Wallpapers, and Widows
"A dying young naval officer's widow, seated with right leg crossed over the other, in a ship's cabin, directed to right, head in profile, wearing a sprigged gown and plumed hat, making lace at a small work-table, naval coat and sword on the window-sill behind her, ship visible on the water through a second window to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state and "[Plate] extensively reworked to update the fashion: the hat altered to a small-brimmed tall hat with plumes, the gown to a sprigged empire-line gown and the hair looped in a head-scarf."--British Museum online catalogue, Curator's comments for variant state
Description:
Title engraved below image., Reissue; plate has been extensively reworked, subtitle "making childbed linen, during a voyage at sea" has been added below title, and publication line has been altered. For earlier state with the imprint "Publish'd 14 July, 1788, by Robr. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.995., For a variant state that is seemingly identical apart from being numbered "376" instead of "375", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7373.+., and Plate numbered "375" in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A man dressed as a Turk plays a harp, while a woman seated beside him, puts her arm round him, pointing to an open music-book inscribed 'Black Joke [a coarse song]. Fol de rol lol &c.' Behind them is a berth let into the wall of the cabin. She says: "Macher [sic] Amie you play dot charming tune again, and den we go to bed!!" He sings: "Fol de rol lol, . . ." [&c.]. She is Louise Demont, a Swiss femme-de-chambre, a leading witness against the Queen; her evidence, like Majocchi's, was much damaged in cross-examination. She called herself Colombier, from her native place, and had been styled while in England 'Countess Colombier'. She was with the Princess on the Syrian journey, and was cross-examined (1 Sept.) as to her personal knowledge of the sleeping-place of a Jew harper who went on board the polacca at Tunis. 'Parl. Deb.', N.S. ii. 1158 f., 1166. See British Museum Satires Nos. 13864, 14121."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jew harper and demi-rep countess
Description:
Title etched below image., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 83 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "Caroline" is incorrectly identified in ink below image; date "Sept. 1820" written in ink in lower right corner. Typed extract of five lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Published September 1820 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821. and Demont, Louisa, active 1814-1820
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Witnesses, Staterooms, Harps, and Ethnic stereotypes
