A man of importance [graphic].

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Description

Title
A man of importance [graphic].
Contributor
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created
[1811?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title etched below image.
Date assigned by cataloger.
A reduced copy of a print with the same title that was etched by Gillray and published 16 May 1799 by Hannah Humphrey. Cf. No. 9386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Seven lines of quoted verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: "Nee'r may his whiskers loose their hue, "chang'd (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue! ... vide Anti Jacobin.
Plate numbered "99" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Leaf 88 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 28.3 x 22 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Edition
[State with plate no.].
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
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826
Subjects
Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12859729
Object ID (OID)
16192716

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