The way to Stretchit!! [graphic].

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Description

Title
The way to Stretchit!! [graphic].
Alternative Title
Way to stretch it
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1 May 1811]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A rustic ogles a young lady riding towards him on the back of a donkey."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from British Museum online catalogue.
Later state; date has been removed from imprint statement.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, May 1, 1811. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.38.
Plate numbered "26" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Price statement has been mostly burnished from plate but is still visible in lower left corner of design.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 24 in volume 1.
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 : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title
V. 1. 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 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12845307
Object ID (OID)
16192388

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