Frontispiece to the Mechanics Magazine [graphic]

Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image

"Newman's Frontispiece to the Mechanics Magazine ... gathers together a wearied collection of ancient puns based on dictionary definitions: two native Americans playing cards represent "India Rubber," women swimming and diving are inevitably "Diving Belles," and two brawling street knife grinders are "A Cutler's Mill." Only one image retains something of a political edge. "Perpetual Motion" shows an unending line of the poor winding in and out of a moneylender's shop, onward into, and out of, a wine and brandy merchant's premises, and then finally into, but not out of, a workhouse."--Maidment, B.E. "Subversive Supplements: Satirical Title Pages of the Periodical Press in the 1830s." In: Victorian Periodicals Review, v. 43, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pages 141-142