A tender parting at the Grand Junction Canal [graphic]
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16192741
Description
- Title
- A tender parting at the Grand Junction Canal [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
- Jany. 1 [not before 1 January 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"A father leaves his tearful wife and daughter to go to Uxbridge by canal, on "veighty business", with striped trousers to make him look like a sailor, and having made his will in case of accident; his wife begs him to "mind the nasty hedges, and the hugly Coal barges"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Probably a second reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published (by Piercy Roberts?) ca. 1803. For first state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.713.
Year of publication in imprint has been obscured with etched lines. Date of publication based on earlier reissue with the year "1807" unobscured. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.182.
Plate numbered "281" 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 within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 58 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 26.1 x 35.8 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) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
- Families
- Subjects
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Families
England > 1803
England > London > 1807
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
- Catalog Record
- 8391078
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192741
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