A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]

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Title
A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]
Creator
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1809?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
"One shilling colour'd."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 16 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 24.5 x 35.8 cm
Language
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
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Clergy
Farmers
Lawyers
Physicians
Wills
Subjects
Clergy
Farmers
Lawyers
Physicians
Wills
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
19th century
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
10175235
Object ID (OID)
16192468

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