Celia retiring [graphic]

Description

Title: Celia retiring [graphic]
Creator: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1819?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn and By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Abstract: "Social satire: an old woman with bald head in her night-dress handed a candle by her maid."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts; Roberts's imprint is still present below title. Tegg's imprint, which was added above title, is partially burnished from the plate, suggesting that this is a later reissue. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.672.
Date of publication based on watermark.
Plate numbered "298" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: Ladies' maid -- Lighting: Candlestick.
Watermark: A 1819.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.1 x 25.3 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 803.00.00.13+
Collection Title: V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) 1819
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1803
England > London > 1819
1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

Access: Public
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