The head of the family in good humour [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The head of the family in good humour [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [15 January 1809]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- By Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"John Bull, a hideously carbuncled 'cit', looks down grinning at a semicircle of men on a much smaller scale who surround his half-length figure. They are (left to right) Napoleon, wearing a huge bicorne, who looks up to say 'Ships. Colonies and Commerce'. A man in military uniform, quite unlike Alexander, his back to Napoleon, says: "Russian Vengeance attend John Bull. A fat Dutch burgher puffs smoke towards John, saying, III eternally smoke him". A scowling man in civilian dress with tousled hair says: "Let him tremble at the name of America". Prussia, a handsome military officer in place of the damaged soldier who after Tilsit represented Frederick William III in English caricature, says: "Beware of Prussia". A similar officer (Francis I) says: "Austria will never Pardon him". A Spaniard wearing a cocked hat says: "Spanish Fury overtake him". A scowling face says: "Let him beware of Denmark". John says: "Dont make such a riot you little noisy Brats, all your bustle to me is no more than a storm in a Chamber pot"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Probably a later state; first half of imprint appears to have been burnished from plate.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Plate numbered "131" in 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.
Temporary local subject terms: Prussia -- America.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Leaf 93 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 36 x 24.2 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
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Subject (Topic)
- John Bull (Symbolic character)
- Subjects
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
19th century
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > 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
- 9157631
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192717
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