The old womans complaint, or, The Greek alphabet [graphic]

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Title
The old womans complaint, or, The Greek alphabet [graphic]
Alternative Title
Greek alphabet
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 15 January 1809]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"An elderly schoolmaster sits by a writing-table, in profile to the right, addressing an old countrywoman who faces him, making a slight curtsey. Behind her (right) are four little boys, two with bags of books slung from the shoulder. The schoolmaster, who wears night-cap, slippers, and buttoned overcoat or dressing-gown, says: "Good woman you are always making complaints against my Scholars, what have they done to offend you now?" She answers: "Please your Honors Worship they followd me up and down--and said one to another--At her!--beat her! damn her!--pelt her!-- and a great deal more that I do not recollect". The leader of the boys, bowing, cap in hand, says: "Indeed Sir, we were only repeating our Greek Alphabet, in order to get quite perfect--what the Old Woman heard was only Alpha--Beta-- Gamma--Delta--and so on to the conclusion". The boys' expressions indicate a successful conspiracy."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Reissue; former plate number "66" has been replaced, and date has been removed from end of imprint statement.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "London, Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, Jany. 15, 1809." Cf. No. 11460 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "132" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 130.
Temporary local subject terms: Alphabet -- School children.
Leaf 68 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 : plate mark 24.5 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

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.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9148983
Object ID (OID)
16192658

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