Humbug, or, Heraldic honours [graphic]

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16192818

Description

Title
Humbug, or, Heraldic honours [graphic]
Alternative Title
Heraldic honours
Creator
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, artist.
Published / Created
[1818?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Ten lines of quoted verse following title: "It was a question, wether he "or's horse were of a family "more worshipful ...
Plate numbered "316" in the upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
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 ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 14 in volume 5.
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 24.9 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
Collection Title
V. 5. 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 1818
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Watermarks (Paper) 1819
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1818
England > London > 1818
1817
1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9213035
Object ID (OID)
16192818

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