Blood & Co. setting fire to [the] tower & stealing the crown [graphic].

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16192389

Description

Title
Blood & Co. setting fire to [the] tower & stealing the crown [graphic].
Alternative Title
Blood and Co. setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Blood and Company setting fire to the tower and stealing the crown
Contributor
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created
[1807?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 7354 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.5 x 28.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 47 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 21.5 x 29 cm, on sheet 25.9 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
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Aquatints England London 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) Smith & Allnutt 1816
Material
aquatint & etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Townshend, John, Lord.
Subjects
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hanger, George, 1751?-1824 > Caricatures and cartoons
Townshend, John, Lord
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Smith & Allnutt > 1816
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12435131
Object ID (OID)
16192389

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