V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue; imprint has been burnished from plate., Publication information based on imprint on earlier state: Pubd. 5th October 1810 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., First series statement appears above image; second series statement appears below image., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 191., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 35 in volume 1.
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A corner of a theatre made of timber fills the greater part of the design. Flames stream from windows on the first floor under which runs a balcony giving access to the door. From the door a staircase slants to the ground. A terrified crowd rush through the doorway and precipitate themselves headlong down the stairs, to fall in a heap at the bottom. A young woman drops from the balcony, two men standing below grip her legs, an elderly musician assists her, losing his fiddle. Another woman climbs over the balcony rail. There are other (comic) incidents. The theatre is placarded 'Cockburns Company'. A large playbill is inscribed 'Last Night--Pizzarro [see British Museum Satires No. 9396, &c.]--Don Juan--A Shower of Real Fire and a View of the Infernal Regions'. In the background (left) fugitives run in frantic haste across the grass towards a row of booths, inscribed 'Pinello', 'Genello Compan[y]', 'Cromer', where players and spectators watch the conflagration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Probably a reissue; first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., "Price one shilling coloured.", Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 37 in volume 1.
