Match against time, or, Wood beats blood and bone [graphic].

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16192836

Description

Title
Match against time, or, Wood beats blood and bone [graphic].
Alternative Title
Wood beats blood and bone
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[17 April 1819]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pub. April 17, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

A horse and rider race a bicyclist as spectators cheer

Description
Title etched below image.
Text below title: This famous hobby was bred in Germany, after winning every thing there was shiped [sic] for Long Acre, patronized by the dandies and is now expected to out run all the first blood on the turf.
Plate numbered "344" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
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 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 55 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 24.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 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 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1824
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Bicycles & tricycles
Horse racing
Horses
Racing
Spectators
Subjects
Bicycles & tricycles
Horse racing
Horses
Racing
Spectators
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
J. Whatman > 1824
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9303635
Object ID (OID)
16192836

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