How to vault in the saddle, or, A new invented patent crane for the accomodation of rheumatic rump'd rectors [graphic]

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11794992

Description

Title
How to vault in the saddle, or, A new invented patent crane for the accomodation of rheumatic rump'd rectors [graphic]
Alternative Title
New invented patent crane for the accomodation of rheumatic rump'd rectors
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 30 December 1813]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Thomas Tegg
Abstract

"A hand-coloured print of a portly rector who is suspended above his horse by means of a crane secured to the wall of the rectory. Two women pull on the rope that has heaved the rector into the air whilst a grinning groom stands alongside the horse."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Reissue; former plate number "314" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.
Publisher inferred from the inclusion of this plate in Tegg's Caricature magazine and the presence of Tegg's serial numbering in the upper right.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the partial imprint "Pubd. December 30th, 1813, by [...]." Cf. Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 810909.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Plate numbered "270" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 33.1 x 23.1 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number.
Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 12 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 : plate mark 35.1 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 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. 12
Collection Title
V. 4. 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 1813
Etchings England London 1813
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Gout
Clergy
Horses
Hoisting machinery
Subjects
Gout
Clergy
Horses
Hoisting machinery
England > 1813
England > London > 1813
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12897303
Object ID (OID)
11794992

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