A caricature of Queen Caroline embracing her lover Bartolomeo Bergami.
820.08.28.01.1+
Acquired April 2023
![Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami . Title page](https://campuspress.yale.edu/lewiswalpole/files/2019/07/lwlacq000464.jpg "Mémoires de monsieur le b[ar]on Pergami")
53 B445 820
Acquired July 2018
53 C292 821c
Acquired October 2018
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.
File 53 B445 815+
Acquired November 2017
“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.
821.01.19.01
Acquired March 2017