A lump of impertinence! [graphic]

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Title
A lump of impertinence! [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 30 September 1809]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A very fat man, broadly caricatured, with a gouty leg, sits full face in an arm-chair, staring with open mouth and goggling eyes. Above his head: 'Who the Devil do you stare at? Get along about your Business'. He wears a night-cap, a handkerchief round his neck, a loose coat over shirt. At his left hand is the corner of a table with a decanter of 'Madeira' and a glass."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "London, Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside."
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. Sept. 30th, 1809, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11463 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "143" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
Companion print to: A lump of innocence.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 166
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume, 1809 -- Night-cap -- Gout -- Madeira.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Leaf 84 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 35.1 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 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
Satires (Visual works) England 1809
Etchings England London 1809
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1809
England > London > 1809
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9165453
Object ID (OID)
16192804

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