V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two demons (right) hold up a long scroll headed ' A Suit in Chancery'; the rolled end rests on the ground. Five lawyers (left) jostle each other to get places for the race towards it. The foremost presses the others back, saying, "Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please". Three of them wear long gowns; the others are in ordinary dress, but one of them wears bands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published by Piercy Roberts; Roberts's imprint is still present in lower left corner but has been obscured with etched lines. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "266" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Demons -- Lawyers -- Chancery., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges., Watermark: 1817., Pencil drawing of a tree has been added to upper left corner of unrolled scroll in image., and Leaf 46 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two demons (right) hold up a long scroll headed ' A Suit in Chancery'; the rolled end rests on the ground. Five lawyers (left) jostle each other to get places for the race towards it. The foremost presses the others back, saying, "Start fair Gentlemen, if you Please". Three of them wear long gowns; the others are in ordinary dress, but one of them wears bands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist questionably identified as Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published by Piercy Roberts; Roberts's imprint is still present in lower left corner but has been obscured with etched lines. See British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "266" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Demons -- Lawyers -- Chancery., and Watermark: Turkey Mill.
Title from letterpress text printed below plate., Plate numbered '488' in the upper left corner., Date of publication and artist from British Museum catalogue., Forty lines of verse printed on broadside portion: To a village that skirted the sea, an exciseman one midsummer came, but prudence, between you and me, forbids me to mention his name ..., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published by R.H. Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
