An undertakers visit! [graphic]

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16192746

Description

Title
An undertakers visit! [graphic]
Contributor
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 26 February 1807]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

An undertaker, bearing a coffin, presents himself before a rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in a chair

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on earlier state bearing a more complete imprint with the year crossed out but still legible: Pubd. Febry. 26, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.42.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of bottom half of title lettering.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Plate numbered "297" in the upper right corner.
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.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges, with almost complete loss of title.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 72 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 25.8 x 35.2 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 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Watermarks (Paper) 1819
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Undertakers
Coffins
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
Obesity
Chairs
Dogs
Subjects
Undertakers
Coffins
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
Obesity
Chairs
Dogs
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8601733
Object ID (OID)
16192746

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