An English bull dog and a Corsican blood hound [graphic].
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16192377
Description
- Title
- An English bull dog and a Corsican blood hound [graphic].
- Creator
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- Jany. [1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, Cheapsid [sic]
- Abstract
-
"A sturdy bull-dog, its padlocked collar inscribed 'Iohn Bull', mauls a lean dog with the head and collar of Bonaparte. The latter lies prostrate, his head in profile to the left, mouth wide open, under the paws of John Bull, who savagely bites his back."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker and year of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate first published by Piercy Roberts in 1803. Roberts's imprint, "Pubd. by Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn," is present in lower left but has been mostly obscured with etched lines; Tegg's imprint has been added above title. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges; plate number obscured by binding.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 44 in volume 4. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- 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
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1803
England > London > 1807
1817
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
- 12894155
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192377
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