Design for a new coat of arms [graphic] : dedicated to Mothers Wood, Windsor & Co. & all the fancy queens.

Creator:

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

Copyright Date:

May 1st 1 [sic], 1821.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 23 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4695111

Notes:

Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum online catalogue.
CtY-LW
Early state, with day of publication etched twice in imprint statement. For a later state with "1st" altered to "the", see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 821.05.01.05.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

Caricature of a coat of arms for Queen Caroline and Bergami with the central figure with a satyr's face, a hat "Caroline Bergami gratia -- Half a crown", and white robes richly decorated with scenes from their life on an escutcheon with Chastity and Innocence as supporters, all surrounded by rich red robes lined with ermine. The scenes include: Adam and Eve, two heads peeping from a tent, a scene with Bergami kneeling before the Queen leaning in to kiss, a plump Queen jumping up like a jack-in-the box, the two in costume dancing, the Queen riding an ass. Other suggestive decorative details include ostrich plumes, ribbons with medals engraved "Night of the Dunghill" (Bergami) and Knight of the Thistle with a shield "The Times ... Lies ... Bribery". At the base, Knight of the Bath with a scene with Bergami reaching towards the Queen in her bath above a medallion "Knight of St. Columbine and Penance" surrounded by a banner "My fancy's so free, I rove like a bee."

Topics:

Adultery.
Coats of arms.
Supernatural beings.

Topics:

Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami,--Baron--Caricatures and cartoons.
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain,--1768-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Humphrey, G. (George), 1773-1831?, publisher.
Humphrey, G.--(George),--1773-1831?--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

George Humphrey shop album.

Call Number:

Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

13849163

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr35094

OID:

16816897

PID:

digcoll:4771906