An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- An Irish pilot, or, Steering by chance [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Steering by chance
- 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
- [not before August 1812]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- [Thomas Tegg], No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"Three figures on the after-deck: a naval officer pointing with a telescope to the left, looks round at a rough-looking elderly sailor who holds the helm, to say: "Now en't you a pretty fellow for a Pilot? to see Land and not know where we are!" The man answers: "Och my dear Jewel! only shew me the Old head of Kinsale, and I'll tell you where we are to an Inch!" A capable-looking sailor (left), hauling at a rope to reef a sail, looks towards the pilot with angry contempt. Sails, rigging, the lower part of a mast, and tossing waves complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Williams and artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue.
Later state, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Publisher and date of publication from earlier state with the complete imprint: Pubd. August 1812 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11977 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "175" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
Temporary local subject terms: Deck -- Telescope.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 27 in volume 3. - 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 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title
- V. 3. 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 1812
Etchings England London 1812 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1812
England > London > 1812
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
- 8165959
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192767
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