Fair day, or, The perishable commodity [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Fair day, or, The perishable commodity [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Perishable commodity
- Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1808?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"A fair-ground surrounded by roughly made tents, one placarded 'Brown Stout'. A rustic inn is on the right and on the left a platform on which a zany postures invitingly before a curtain. In the foreground a gouty and elderly man addresses a demurely meretricious country girl who holds a basket of eggs and a rose. He stoops towards her, saying, "My pretty dear--what do you ask for your Article? I am rather near sighted--but I'll give you half a Crown for it at a venture". She answers: "Dear! Sir!--I wonder you should think of such a thing--though mine is but a perishable Commodity,--it shall not go at that price I assure you". At her feet is a broken egg. Yokels gaze up at a booth (right): 'Jobson's Grand display of Magical Deceptions Sligh ...' A man in a smock, on horseback, drinks deep at the inn, beside the stout innkeeper."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Reissue of a print originally published with the plate number "30" and the imprint "London, Pubd. Novr. 12th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside." Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.11.12.02.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "267" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shillg. colord."--Lower right corner of design.
For variant state numbered "201" in upper right corner, see no. 11147 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Temporary local subject terms: Fairs -- Tents -- Inns -- Clowns -- Male Costume, 1808 -- Baskets -- Female Costume, 1808 -- Roses.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 47 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 35.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 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 1807
Etchings England London 1808 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1807
England > London > 1808
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
- 8783936
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192739
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