The Q-n's ass in a band-box [graphic].

London : Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., Jany. 22, 1821.

1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 28.9 x 22.8 cm

wove paper

Sold at Forum Auctions, 16 March 2017, lot 80.

"The Queen, grossly caricatured, sits on a zebra which stands in a round band-box with a hinged and upturned lid inscribed 'a Present from Baro Bergami'. The zebra has the (profile) head of Wood, looking with greedy and imbecile satisfaction towards a sieve of food inscribed '[Wa]rden of St Catherine'. This is held out by two hands projecting from the left margin. The Queen, with a grin both calculating and insane, sits full-face, negligently holding reins attached to Wood's mouth, her left hand on her hip. She sits in a smaller (bottomless) band-box which surrounds her from hips to knees, the left leg, in frilled drawers, being thrust forward from beneath it. She wears a décolletée dress; on her head is an erection of feathers and flowers rising from a circlet inscribed 'Wood'. An owl (cf. British Museum satires no. 14199) flies by her head. In the background is Brandenburgh House, in front of which is a braying ass."--British Museum online catalogue.

Queen's ass in a band-box

English

April 24, 2017

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14110