A royal salute

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A caricature of Queen Caroline embracing her lover Bartolomeo Bergami.

  • Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
  • Title: A royal salute [graphic] : le cannon est en bas.
  • Publication: [London] : Pub. Aug. 28, 1820, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilli [sic], [28 August 1820]

Catalog Record

820.08.28.01.1+

Acquired April 2023

Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami

Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami . Title page

  • Author: Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron.
  • Title: Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami : chambellan, chevalier de Malte, chevalier du Saint-Sépulcre, etc. / traduits d’après le manuscrit italien par M. ***.
  • Publication: Paris : Brissot-Thivars, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, No. 22 ; Ponthieu, Libraire, Palais-Royal, galerie de bois, No. 201 ; Leroy, au Cabinet littéraire, passage Beaujolais, rue Richelieu, No. 52, 1820.

Catalog record 

53 B445 820

Acquired July 2018

 

Tablettes de la reine d’Angleterre

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  • Author: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, associated name.
  • Title: Tablettes de la reine d’Angleterre, òu se trouvent inscrits jour par jour : par l’ordre de S.M., les événemens les plus remarquables de son voyage en Sicile, en Grèce, en Barbarie et à la Terre-Sainte, précédées: 1 ̊D’un résumé de débats sur le bill des peines et amendes; 2 ̊D’une notice historique sur le baron Pergami, rédigée par lui-même; 3 ̊De la première partie de la correspondance de ce chambellan, depuis son entrée au service de la princesse de Galles jusqu’au 25 novembre 1815, et suivies de la seconde partie de cette correspondance, depuis le 20 septembre 1816 jusqu’au 10 juin 1820 / traduites de l’italien sur les manuscrits autographes de la reine d’Angleterre, par A.T. Desquiron de St. Agnan … Ornées de portraits.
  • Publication: Paris : Alexis Eymery, Libraire, éditeur du choix de rapports, etc. ; rue Mazarine, No. 30, 1821.

Catalog Record 

53 C292 821c

Acquired October 2018

Poetical address from the ladies of the the cabinet ministers

A lengthy risqué poem suggestive of the sexual prowess of Bartolomeo Pergami, a close companion of Queen Caroline (1768-1821) who accompanied her during her Mediterranean travels in The Regency period. A woodcut portrait at the top of the sheet displays Pergami’s handsome visage, curly locks and broad shoulders.

  • TitlePoetical address from the ladies of the the cabinet ministers, to Bartolomo Pergami, Knight of the Bath, of Malta, and of Saint Caroline.
  • Publication:[ London] : Published by M. O’Brien, No. 5 Newcastle-Street, Strand …, [ca. 1815]

Catalog Record 

File 53 B445 815+

Acquired November 2017

A wooden substitute, or, Any port in a storm

“A companion plate to British Museum Satires no. 14103. Alderman Wood takes the Queen’s left arm, staring down at her and grinning. He wears a top-hat on the back of his head, black tail-coat with trousers; his left hand is thrust under the buttons of his double-breasted coat. He wears an order and a star on which the Queen’s head is depicted (see British Museum Satires no. 13810). From her neck hang twin miniatures: Bergami and Wood. Her dress is a modified version of that in British Museum Satires no. 14103: between open over-dress and Turkish trousers is a frilled petticoat reaching well below the knee; her feathered hat resembles that worn at her ‘trial’. They stand in a wooded landscape with goats and rabbits in the middle distance. In the background, on the edge of a lake, is the tiny figure of Bergami, both arms raised.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • PrintmakerLane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker.
  • TitleA wooden substitute, or, Any port in a storm [graphic].
  • PublicationLondon : Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James’s St., Jany. 19, 1821.

Catalog Record

821.01.19.01

Acquired March 2017