The imperial comet sheding its baneful influence / [graphic]

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Title: The imperial comet sheding its baneful influence / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Imperial comet : shedding its baneful influence
Creator: Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: Septr. 25, 1811.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publd. by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Description: Title etched below image.
Date precedes publisher's statement in imprint.
Plate numbered "93" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 35 in volume 2.
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 24.7 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832
Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832 > Caricatures and cartoons
Marie Louise, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1791-1847 > Caricatures and cartoons
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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