V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene at Wapping, outside a corner-house on the river inscribed 'Dock Head'. Prostitutes look from an open window projecting into the street and on the street level. Beside it is a bill: 'Dr Leak's Pills one smal Pill is a Dose.' A negro sailor walks in at the door, his arm round a brown-skinned girl. Above the door: 'Wapping Bagnio Hot Baths'. On the door-post: 'Neat Wines.' By the door hangs a bird in a cage. Three men stand on the pavement gazing in at the window, where one of the four smiling women is a negress. They are a Chinese, a Dutchman with a long pipe and a dog, and a lean foppish Frenchman, whose long pigtail is pulled by a dwarfish boy. A brown-skinned child sleeps on the pavement. On the right a ship lies against the quay where a sailor and a woman stand, the latter smoking a pipe. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Black brown and fair
Description:
Title etched below image., "Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue., Twenty-four lines of verse below title: You tell me girl that I'm given to rove, that I sport with each lass on the green, that I join in the dance and sing sonnets of love, and still with the fairest am seen ..., Plate numbered "R. 2" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.8 x 21.7 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement almost completely erased from sheet., and Mounted to 33 x 26 cm.