The Como-cal hobby [graphic].

Creator:

Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

April 20, 1821.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 22.2 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12236617 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4083446

Notes:

Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.
CtY-LW
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Text below title: Set a courier on goat-back and he'll ride to the Devil.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"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 heavy postilion's whip with a long curling lash. Behind are trees, Lake Como, and Villa d'Este, inscribed 'Licenced Temple of Fancy'. Figures posture on the roof, as if dancing, as in British Museum Satires No. 14189. In the middle distance a man brandishing a whip is carried on the shoulders of a woman."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Adultery.
Goats.
Riding.
Whips.

Topics:

Como, Lake (Italy),--depicted.

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.
Villa d'Este, SpA,--depicted.

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

George Humphrey shop album.

Call Number:

Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

13851168

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr35114

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 14171

OID:

16816912

PID:

digcoll:4771910