The plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper [graphic].

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16192413

Description

Title
The plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper [graphic].
Alternative Title
State epicures taking un petit souper
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.
Text below the title: "The great globe itself and all which it inherit" is too small to satisfy such insatiable appetites. Vide Mr. W-d-m's eccentricities, in [the] Political Register.
A reduced copy of a print by Gillray with the same title. Cf. No. 10371 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leaf 58 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 21.7 x 28 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
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subjects
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12849644
Object ID (OID)
16192413

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