Hodges explanation of a hundred magistrates [graphic]

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Title
Hodges explanation of a hundred magistrates [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1 March 1815]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A yokel in a long smock (right) stands, hat in hand, before three elderly J.P.s in old-fashioned dress; he tugs at his rough hair. One of the justices sits in an arm-chair, with folded hands and downcast frown. The other two, leaning across a table on which are writing materials, scowl angrily; one, clenching his fist, says: "How dare you Fellow to say it is unfair to bring you before one hundred Magistrates when you see there are but three of us!" He answers: "Why please your Worship you maun know--when I went to school, they Taught I that a one and two O's stood for a hundred--so do you see your Worship be One and the other two be Cyphers!"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state; former plate number "345" has been replaced with a new number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. March 1st, 1815, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "245" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 290.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Smock -- Justices of the Peace.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 23 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 25.2 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
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 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1815
England > London > 1815
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9201913
Object ID (OID)
16192728

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