Greys and duns, or, A prime bang up for the bit. Ya! Hip! [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Greys and duns, or, A prime bang up for the bit. Ya! Hip! [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Prime bang up for the bit. Ya! Hip!
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [July 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. July 1810 by Thos. Tegg, Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"Scene on the pavement before the open door of a London house (right). A fashionable young man addresses an amateur whip, both disregarding the duns who clamour round the latter: "you've Got your Greys yet I see! I thought you wanted to get rid of them". The other answers: "O! no! keep my Greys if I can! but I want cursedly to get rid of my Duns!" He wears the long coat with many capes of a coachman, and is about to mount the box of a coach and four which waits (left), a groom standing by the near wheeler. On the coach-door is inscribed (in reversed characters) 'No Inside Passenger', above a coronet and crest: an arm holding a whip, with the motto 'Forward'. The duns include a butcher's boy with a long bill, saying, "Master says he can't Bang up Prime to Smithfield without some whipcord", and a milk-boy who says "Mrs Curd desires you'll curb the Milk Score a little Sir!" The others, who are partly hidden, say: Mr Nead the Baker will be glad to touch the bit Sir!"; "Mr Calf the Boot Maker Sir would be glad to touch the Spanish [money]"; "Mr Giblet the Poulterer desires you'll not make a Goose of him."; "I can't let your Sarvants have any more small beer & brickdust that's pos [a woman]"; "Mr Sheers the Taylor Sir, is reduced to a Button unless you send some stay Tape"; "Mr Sweetherb the greengrocer will send nothing but Crabs till the Bill is paid; Mr Stilton the Cheesemonger begs you'll consider him and let him have ever such a Mite; Mr Copal the coachmaker can't send the new Curricle, without some of the Main Spring"; "Mr Sherry the Wine Merchant can't get into Port without you raise him the Wind". All doff their hats with respectful anxiety. Above the design: 'Prime of life to go it, where's a place like London!" Four in hand to-day, the next you may be undone; vide Hit or Miss'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "29" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
"Teggs caricatures, 111 Cheapside."--Upper left corner.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1812.
Leaf 27 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 24.9 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
- Language
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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
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1812 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1810
England > London > 1810
J. Whatman > 1812
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12845611
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192640