Makeing a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse [graphic]

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Title: Makeing a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse [graphic]
Alternative Title: Making a compass at sea, or, The use of a Scotch louse
Use of a Scotch louse
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1818?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed in lower right portion of image with the monogrammatic initials of Charles Williams.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "Art lives on natures alms, is weak and poor, "nature herself has unexhausted store. Cowper.
Plate numbered "350" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Compasses -- Union Jack.
Watermark: ITH 1818.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii, p. 142.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 818.00.00.14+ Impression 1
Collection Title: V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection/Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper) ITH 1818
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Sailors
Ships
Flags
Subjects: Sailors
Ships
Flags > Great Britain
England > 1818
England > London > 1818
ITH > 1818
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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