Rowlandson's Caricature magazine. Vol. 3 [graphic].

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Description

Title
Rowlandson's Caricature magazine. Vol. 3 [graphic].
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1809?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Description
Title from text in center of image.
Probably an alternative title page used for a reissue of Caricature magazine after Woodward's death in 1809. For a later state of the probable original title page to v. 3, see No. 11134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Date suggested in the British Museum catalogue.
Six lines of quoted text above title: "Care to our coffin, adds a nail, no doubt, and every grin, so merry, draws one out ..."
Text below title: Mirth with thee I mean to live.
Numbered "308*" in upper right corner of design.
Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Watermark: Basted Mill 1817.
Several short, illegible annotations in ink in a contemporary hand; these include practice lettering (?) in lower left corner of sheet, an attribution (?) below the quoted text above title, and a scribble in upper left part of design.
Title page to volume 3.
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 35.4 x 24 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Title pages
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Watermarks (Paper) Basted Mill 1817
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
Basted Mill > 1817
19th century
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12860429
Object ID (OID)
16192454

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