Peter Plumb's diary [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Peter Plumb's diary [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 20 May 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"A fat 'cit' and his fat wife sleep in armchairs with a solid round table between them on which are two decanters, glasses, and a punch-bowl. He is by the fire (left); on the hob is a coffee-pot, on the chimney-piece a box of 'Turkey Tobbacco' and a long pipe. A fat spaniel lies on a cushion. Behind her mother and on the extreme right a buxom girl sits at a miniature piano being kissed by a plump young man. Her open music-book is inscribed 'Lucy's Delight Handell Water Piece'. Beside them on the floor an open book, inscribed 'a Duett Prestissimo', lies across a 'Dumb Flute'. Over the chimney-piece is a placard inscribed: 'Eating, Drinking and Sleeping, with the generality of People the three important Articles of Life'. On the wall hangs a large 'Plan of the New Improvement of the Cattle Market in Smithfield', with four divisions inscribed respectively 'Sheep Penns', 'Swine Market', 'Division for Horned Cattle', and 'Cow Penns'. Above the door is a heavily framed view of 'Wapping Docks'. Below the title: 'This honest Man being of greater Consequence in his own Thoughts, than in the Eye of the World, had for some Years past, kept a Journal of his Life--Videlisset [sic] Monday Eight O Clock--I put on my Clothes, Washed Hands and face--Nine O Clock--Tied my knee Strings, put on my double soaled Shoes Took a Walk to Islington. One O Clock took a Luncheon between Two and Three--Return'd, dined on a Knuckle of Veal and Bacon--Three--Nap as usual--Four to Six Walked in the Fields. Wind S.S.E. --from Six to Ten--went to the Club was half an hour before any body else came-- Ten at Night Went to Bed Slept without Waking till Nine next Morning-- Tuesday Wenesday Thursday Friday S. S. little or no Variation--'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image
Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. May 20th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11623 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling colored."
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 187-8.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 17 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 34.9 cm, on sheet 27 x 40 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
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Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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
- 9155354
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192668