The looking glass, or, Caricature annual, 1835. Vol. 6.
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Description
- 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
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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
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 835.00.00.250+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Frontispieces
Periodical illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1835
Lithographs England London 1835 - Material
- lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Mirrors
Eclipses
Telescopes
Sun
Moon
Dance
Scrolls (Information artifacts)
Purses - Subjects
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Mirrors
Eclipses
Telescopes
Sun
Moon
Dance
Scrolls (Information artifacts)
Purses
England > 1835
England > London > 1835
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 991011291981208651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33559420
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