Pidgeon hole a Convent [sic] Garden contrivance to coop up the gods / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Pidgeon hole a Convent [sic] Garden contrivance to coop up the gods / [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 20 February 1811]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"A close-up view of one of the 'pigeon holes' which flanked the upper gallery at Covent Garden. Heads closely packed together are framed in the lunette opening, six or seven rows receding one above the other in the centre. Most seem suffering from heat or discomfort, and except for one or two pretty young women are grotesquely caricatured. The centre figure in the front row, leaning on the parapet and apparently asleep, is a fat coachman in livery. An old man leans over, bleeding copiously at the nose. In the spaces left by the curve of the lunette in the upper corners of the design are groups symbolizing Comedy (left) and Tragedy (right): comic mask, pan-pipes, &c."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Febry. 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11797 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 200-1.
Temporary local subject terms: Covent Garden gallery. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii, p. 50.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 811.02.20.01+
- Collection Title
- V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9165587
- Object ID (OID)
- 10964780