An undertakers visit! [graphic]

Description

Title: An undertakers visit! [graphic]
Contributor: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 26 February 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: An undertaker, bearing a coffin, presents himself before a rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in a chair
Description: Title etched below image.
Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on earlier state bearing a more complete imprint with the year crossed out but still legible: Pubd. Febry. 26, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2001,0520.42.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of bottom half of title lettering.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Plate numbered "297" in the upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 250 (cl) x 352 (pl) mm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom, with probable loss of plate number from upper right.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm
Language: English

Repository: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number: Print00797
Collection Title: V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Watermarks (Paper) 1819
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Undertakers
Coffins
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
Obesity
Chairs
Dogs
Subjects: Undertakers
Coffins
Smoking
Pipes (Smoking)
Obesity
Chairs
Dogs
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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