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[BONASSUS]. LANE, Theodore (attribution). An Old Friend with a New Face or the Baron in Disguise. London: G. Humphrey, 1821. Etching, hand-colored, parodying Queen Caroline’s embrace of the exhibition of the so-called “newly discovered” Bonassus in England. Wide margins, overall 14 7/8 x 11”. Jay’s Journal, pp. 18; 20 (“Queen Caroline suffered ignominy from her association with the exhibit when she appeared as the subject of a political caricature…”).