Comfort for an old maid [graphic]

Description

Title: Comfort for an old maid [graphic]
Creator: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, 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.
Plate numbered "127" in the upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 64 in volume 2.
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 26.2 x 34.9 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
19th century
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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