Theodore Lane

[1] Lane died in an accident: while waiting for a friend at the horse repository in Gray's Inn Road he by mistake stepped upon a skylight, and, falling on the pavement below, was killed, 21 May 1828.

[1] Theodore Lane was a political lampoonist and in 1820 created a series of satirical images of Queen Caroline at the time of her return to England to claim her rights as consort to George IV.

Lane caricatured the queen as a grotesque, overdressed and overweight, accompanied by her Italian lover, Bartolomeo Pergami and the then Lord Mayor of London, Matthew Wood.

Images included Returning Justice lifts aloft her Scale,The Man of the Woods & the Cat-o'-Mountain, Delicious Dreams, The Queen's A-s in a Bandbox and Moments of Pleasure.

[2] His picture Mathematical Abstraction, which he left unfinished, was completed by Fraser, and purchased by John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick; it also was engraved by Graves.