An emblem of wisdom made of wood [graphic].

Description

Title: An emblem of wisdom made of wood [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, artist.
Published / Created: [appoximately 1820]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An owl, with the head of Alderman Wood realistically drawn and a good portrait, stands directed to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Identified by Andrew Edmunds as a copy of a print by Richard Dighton; see Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.97. For an impression of the print by Dighton, entitiled "Absolute wisdom, or, Queen's owl taken from a wood," see National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG D13489).
Variant state lacking publication line. For a state with the imprint "London, Oct. 23, 1820, Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly," see no. 13899 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Watermark: [...?]th 1818.
Mounted to 58 x 39 cm.
Mounted on leaf 23 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair."
Figure of "Ald. Wood" identified in ink below image. Typed extract of four lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Provenance: Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone." William Reese Company; February 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.9 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 35.2 x 24.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English