Dignity! [graphic].

Creator:

Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028646

Copyright Date:

June 7, 1821.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.8 x 22 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr37207

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two lines of quoted text below title: "Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eyes, in all her actions dignity."
Text above image, representing words spoken by the officer: I can recognize no power in you to enoble any one - and I shall not degrade myself and the service by sitting at table with such a fellow as that.
An enlarged version of a design, one of four on a single plate, etched by George Cruikshank and published 15 June 1820. Cf. No. 13731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.

Abstract:

Caricature of Queen Caroline and Bergami seated at a table set with elegant china tureens and plates. On the rigth an English officer (Captain Pechell) extends his hand graciously as he declines to sit with them. Behind him two servants(?) look on with concern.

Topics:

Dining tables.
Military officers--British.
Servants.
Tableware.

Topics:

Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami,--Baron--Caricatures and cartoons.
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067117
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831?, publisher.
Pechell, Samuel George--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1821.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1821.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

821.06.07.01

Orbis Record:

14028796

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37207

OID:

16720942

PID:

digcoll:4695114