Methodist preacher [graphic]

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Description

Title
Methodist preacher [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[20 April 1808]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
[Thomas Tegg], April 20th, 1808, N. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"Half length figure of a preacher emerging from a cask, hands together, eyes turned up sanctimoniously."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Publisher's name at beginning of imprint statement is lightly printed and illegible. Publisher from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Impression from a worn plate; beginning of imprint statement is lightly printed and only partially legible.
Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : sheet 15.9 x 10 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subjects
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
England > 1808
England > London > 1808
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

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Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12917400
Object ID (OID)
11792041

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