"Representation of Dr Grosvenor in smart attire, walking to the left whilst clutching the glove of his right hand in his left hand. He wears black boots, a blue, double-breasted over-coat, and a black hat, and is accompanied by a white dog."--British Museum online catalogue and "Grosvenor (1742-1823), who became the most noted practical surgeon in Oxford, was admitted to the priviliges of the University in 1768, as 'chirurgus'. On the death of the University Printer in 1795 he became chief proprietor and editor of the Oxford Journal."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons -- Oxford University -- Oxford Journal., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 278 x 204 mm.
"Representation of Dr Grosvenor in smart attire, walking to the left whilst clutching the glove of his right hand in his left hand. He wears black boots, a blue, double-breasted over-coat, and a black hat, and is accompanied by a white dog."--British Museum online catalogue and "Grosvenor (1742-1823), who became the most noted practical surgeon in Oxford, was admitted to the priviliges of the University in 1768, as 'chirurgus'. On the death of the University Printer in 1795 he became chief proprietor and editor of the Oxford Journal."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons -- Oxford University -- Oxford Journal., Leaf 33 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Dr. Grovernor" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"Dr. John Smith, portly and very round-shouldered, stands in profile to the right, wearing mortar-board, gown, and cassock, with bands. An eye-glass hangs from a ribbon. Smith (1744-1809), B.D. and D.D. 1796, was Rector of Fairford, Glos., 1768-1809, and Master of Pembroke College 1796-1809."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 47 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"Dr. John Smith, portly and very round-shouldered, stands in profile to the right, wearing mortar-board, gown, and cassock, with bands. An eye-glass hangs from a ribbon. Smith (1744-1809), B.D. and D.D. 1796, was Rector of Fairford, Glos., 1768-1809, and Master of Pembroke College 1796-1809."--British Museum online catalogue
"Bust of a handsome, alluring woman, elegantly dressed."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
"An elderly man, in profile to the right, pompously stressing his argument by enumerating points on his fingers."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Man wise in his own conceit
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "9" in upper left corner., and Mounted on leaf 42 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the Catalogue of books illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson., Possibly a plate etched by Rowlandson for an 1808 or 1809 edition of An academy for grown horsemen; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 102, 181., Plate sometimes included in the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See Catalogue of books illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on verso of leaf 39 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ... sailor, arm-in-arm with a woman, stands in front of the door of a corner-house abutting on a quay. She is gaily dressed, holding a parasol, and slung with gold chains, a miniature (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10894) hangs from one, a watch and seals from the other. Above the door is a board: 'Lodgings for Single Men and Their Wives'. On the door is an inscription with a pointing hand: 'Please to ring the Bell'. The sailor says: "Why Nan-this is the very birth, we have been so long looking for". Against a background of masts and spars a sailor and a woman embrace (left)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. June 30th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11139 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "219" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 89., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 34.8 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 79 in volume 3.
"A (negroid) sailor, arm-in-arm with a woman, stands in front of the door of a corner-house abutting on a quay. She is gaily dressed, holding a parasol, and slung with gold chains, a miniature (cf. No. 10894) hangs from one, a watch and seals from the other. Above the door is a board: 'Lodgings for Single Men and Their Wives'. On the door is an inscription with a pointing hand: 'Please to ring the Bell'. The sailor says: "Why Nan-this is the very birth, we have been so long looking for". Against a background of masts and spars a sailor and a woman embrace (left)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered in upper right corner: 219.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 30th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ... sailor, arm-in-arm with a woman, stands in front of the door of a corner-house abutting on a quay. She is gaily dressed, holding a parasol, and slung with gold chains, a miniature (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10894) hangs from one, a watch and seals from the other. Above the door is a board: 'Lodgings for Single Men and Their Wives'. On the door is an inscription with a pointing hand: 'Please to ring the Bell'. The sailor says: "Why Nan-this is the very birth, we have been so long looking for". Against a background of masts and spars a sailor and a woman embrace (left)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Lodgings to let at Portsmouth!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. June 30th, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11139 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "219" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 89., Watermark, partially trimmed: Charles Wise 181[...?]., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
