The ladies hobby [graphic].

Description

Title: The ladies hobby [graphic].
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 May 1819]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. May 22th [sic], 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: A fashionably dressed young lady rides her velocipedes, along with many others as seen in the distance
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered "351" 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.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 63 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: English

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.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bicycles & tricycles
Cycling
Women
Sports
Subjects: Bicycles & tricycles
Cycling
Women > Sports > 19th century
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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