Comfort to the corns [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > Comfort to the corns [graphic]
16192718
Description
- Title
- Comfort to the corns [graphic]
- Contributor
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1800]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat. She wears spectacles and a shawl around her head
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Close copy, with plate number on border, of a print with the same title by James Gillray published by Hannah Humphrey on February 6, 1800.
Publication date based on that of the original print by Gillray from which this copy was made.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered '134' in upper right corner.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.1 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Leaf 95 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 28.5 x 22.0 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
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Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Cats
Chairs
Eyeglasses
Feet
Fireplaces
Medical procedures & techniques
Older people
Slippers
Wash tubs - Subjects
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Cats
Chairs
Eyeglasses
Feet
Fireplaces
Medical procedures & techniques
Older people
Slippers
Wash tubs
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
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
- 8228713
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192718
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