The looking glass, or, Caricature annual, 1835. Vol. 6.

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Title: The looking glass, or, Caricature annual, 1835. Vol. 6.
Alternative Title: As when the sun new risen looks through the horizontal misty air ...
Creator: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Contributor: Ducôté, A. active 1827-1841
McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [1835]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket and A. Ducôté's lithography, St. Martins L.
Abstract: "Title vignette showing a scene reflected in a mirror set in an ornate frame. Two men at lower left peering through telescopes at a solar eclipse, with caricatured heads in the sun and moon. Three dancing men at left. Figures with scrolls reading "Place" and "Pension" perched on the columns of the frame also looking through telescopes at the eclipse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text at center of image.
Printmaker identified as Robert Seymour in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.12351.
Six lines of text within a cartouche beneath the central frame: As when the sun new risen looks through the horizontal misty air shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, in dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds, on half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes monarchs.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39 x 25.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English