Makeing a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse [graphic]
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16192840
Description
- Title
- Makeing a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Making a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse
Use of a Scotch louse - Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1818?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Signed in lower right portion of image with the monogrammatic initials of Charles Williams.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "Art lives on natures alms, is weak and poor, "nature herself has unexhausted store. Cowper.
Plate numbered "350" 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 within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Compasses -- Union Jack.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 62 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 : sheet 25 x 37 cm
- Language
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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
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Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper) ITH 1818
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic)
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Sailors
Ships
Flags - Subjects
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Sailors
Ships
Flags > Great Britain
England > 1818
England > London > 1818
ITH > 1818
1817
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
- 9212689
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192840
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