Gown metamorphosed into a ghost and The effect of imagination
Description:
Title from item., Numbered 'Plate 60' in upper left corner., Placement instructions in upper right corner: Page 137., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Clothes lines -- Yokels., and Watermark: R & E 1799.
The scene is the interior of a gothic church, with a view of part of a lateral gallery, the tower arch, and west door (on the right). The foreground and the gallery are filled with couples, in general elderly, ugly, and fashionably dressed, in conversation or bowing to each other. An unicorn on a monument holding an escutcheon is conspicuous. On the right the congregation is crowding towards the open door
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 80' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Year in imprint erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Clothing & dress, Couples, Interiors, and Monuments
"A fat, bald-headed man draped in a sheet, his beard coated with lather, sits full-face, looking sideways with angry apprehension at a lean barber (left) holding a razor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and bottom., Numbered 'Plate 51' in upper left corner., Placement instructions: 'Page 121', in upper right corner., Plates from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Title etched below image., Numbered 'Plate 82' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: thatched overhang -- Old Maiden Head -- Elizabeth I.
"A lean and ugly old man sits in profile to the right, bending forward towards an immense volume which lies open on a table in front of an open sash-window (right). On the page is a fly at which he gesticulates. He wears a night-cap and a loose robe over an old-fashioned laced waistcoat, short breeches, and high-quartered shoes. Above his head hangs a large stuffed crocodile, and in a frame on the wall are butterflies and insects. The 'virtuoso' (? naturalist) is examining the works of Linnaeus 'for a description of an uncommon species of insect'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 41' in upper left corner., Plate from: Eccentric Excursions, or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in ... England & South Wales, by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Variant state with title. Cf. No. 8968 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, and Temporary local subject terms: Virtuosi -- Allusion to Linnaeus -- Collections: insects -- Taxodermy: crocodile -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Male dress: nightcap -- Eyeglasses.
Title from engraved text above image., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., Numbered 'Plate 42' in upper left corner., 'Page'--Upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward. 1796., Temporary local subject terms: Coats of arms: burlesque arms -- clergy: monks -- Emblems: man on an eagle -- Scrolls -- Executions -- Military uniforms: Hussars' uniform -- Brazen Head -- Reference to Katterfelto -- Weapons: bows -- Literature: R.E. Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels ..., 1786., and Plate numbering and placement instructions erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Munchausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von, 1720-1797
Title from item,, Numbered 'Plate 44' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 107' in upper right corner., Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Women -- Itinerant pedlars -- Dishes: Dunstable ware -- Walking staves.
"Plate 71 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Four stage-coach interiors as above. The occupants, by holding the straps by the windows or above the seats, and planting their feet in different positions, are taking the best means to protect themselves against the four types of jolt depicted in BMSat 9133."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Numbered 'Plate 71' in upper left corner., and Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Title etched at bottom of image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered 'Plate 16' in upper left corner., Placement instructions 'Page 37' in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodwad, G.M. Eccentric excursions, 1796., and Temporary local subject terms: Sergeants at law -- Legal wigs.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 10, 1796, by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Being accelerated in your walk by the lively application of a chairmans pole a posteriori ...
Description:
Title etched above image., Three lines of quoted text below design: "Being accelerated in your walk by the lively application of a chairmans "pole a posteriori - his "by your leave, not coming till after he has "taken it., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Plate numbered "304" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman. Countermark: 1822.
