Rumpantur ut ilia Codro [graphic].

Description

Title: Rumpantur ut ilia Codro [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1717?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption in letterpress above image.
Woodcut from the title page of: John Gay's Confederates, a farce. London : Printed for R. Burleigh, in Amen-Corder, 1717.
Sheet trimmed, with loss of final 's' in "Sultaness".
Four line quotation from Charles Johnson's Sultaness in letterpress below image: These are the Wags, who boldly did adventure, To club a Farce by Tripartite Indenture! But, let 'em share their Dividend of Praise, And wear their own Fool's Cap, instead of Bays. Prol. to the Sultanes[s].
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 22 x 17 cm., with note in an unidentified later hand, discussing the play The sultaness, on verso of mounting sheet.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1717
Woodcuts England 1717
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: woodcut ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1717

Access: Public
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