A hitt at backgammon [graphic]
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16192678
Description
- Title
- A hitt at backgammon [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Hit at backgammon
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 19 November 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"A man and woman, fat, elderly, and grotesque, play backgammon, the surface of a round table and the backgammon board forming the base of the design. The woman (right), a harridan, frantic with rage, leans towards the man clutching his wig. Two candlesticks are overturned, the guttering candles broken. A cat miaows at the back of his mistress's chair."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Reissue; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. November 19th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11637 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.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 193-4.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 41 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 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 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) 1817 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Games
Gambling - Subjects
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Games
Gambling
England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
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
- 9159613
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192678