Reasonable charges, or, Ducks metamorphosed! [graphic]

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Description

Title
Reasonable charges, or, Ducks metamorphosed! [graphic]
Alternative Title
Ducks metamorphosed
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1809?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

A manservant and a maidservant on the extreme left peer through a half-opened door at two men seated at a round table covered with a white cloth on which are plates of peas, a decanter, and wineglasses. A waiter (left) is leaning towards them checking prices off on his fingers and saying: "I'm sure Gentlemen on inspection you'll find the charges very reasonable, nothing can be cheaper, fifteen shillings the peas! Ducks one pound one!!!" The man in the middle of the table looks at him with his mouth open; the man on the left holds up a sheet of paper on which is written "No. 4 Tim Fleecem Duck £1.1. Peas 0.15 s." He shouts: "Ducks!!! why my good friend they are Guinea Fowls!!!"

Description
Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from description of earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue.
Later state, with former plate number "No. 4" removed and a new number etched in its place. For earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.39.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record.
Plate numbered "230" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge leaving thread margin.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: Waiters -- Male Costume, 1790 -- Apron -- Price of food.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 7 in volume 4.
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 35.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 36 cm
Edition
[State with plate number "230"].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
Collection Title
V. 4. 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 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Watermarks (Paper) 1816
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
1816
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9148933
Object ID (OID)
16192722

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