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Figures in a fog

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Isaac Cruikshank

Figures in a fog

Published

[London] : Pub'd by Dolby 299 Strand., [1820]

engraving
image: 245 x 195 mm; plate mark: 254 x 195 mm; sheet: 265 x 208 mm
Peel 2026
Notes
Date and description from British Museum online catalog.
Not described in George, M.D. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Sometimes attributed to I.R. Cruikshank.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline: the five discomforted heads of her accusers are thrown into shadow by the radiant figure of the Queen in an aurole with her alleged lover Bergami kneeling at her feet.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?
Dolby, Thomas, 1782-1856, publisher.
Classification
Department