A sailor sitting for his miniature [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A sailor sitting for his miniature [graphic]
- Creator
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [not before 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn and Pubd. Janry. [...] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"The artist [a portrait of Woodward], wearing a flowered dressing-gown, sits in profile to the right. at a sloping desk, painting on a small oval a bust portrait of a sailor who sits truculently (right), smoking a pipe, arms akimbo. The sailor wears a round hat, short jacket, knotted handkerchief, striped trousers and buckled shoes. On his cheek is a round black patch. At his elbow is a punch-bowl. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint is still present below title, with Tegg's imprint added in bottom of design. The year "1807" in Tegg's imprint is obscured with etched lines, suggesting that the plate was reissued more than once. See British Museum online catalogue.
Plate numbered "241" in upper right corner, altered from "242" on earlier state. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Dressing-gown -- Furniture: Desk -- Sailors -- Pipes -- Punch-bowl.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of Roberts's imprint statement.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 19 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 : sheet 27.5 x 36.2 cm
- Language
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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
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Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman 1824
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1803
England > London > 1807
J Whatman > 1824
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
- 8606632
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192725