(Locomotion) [graphic]

Description

Title: (Locomotion) [graphic]
Creator: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Contributor: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, artist.
McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [1830?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Description: Title from caption below image.
Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour.
Text on either side of title: Note-- In the ladies vehicle the steam is made with a strong infusion of gunpowder tea. For an explanation of the machinery see the next number of the Edinburgh Review.
Text above image: Walking by steam, riding by steam, flying by steam.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Steam carriages -- Steam walking-machines -- Steam flying-machines -- Reference to Hyde Park -- Newspapers: Reference to Edinburgh Review -- Steam.
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.4 x 35.5 cm, mounted to 35 x 40 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark. On wove paper; hand-colored.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Provenance: Maggs; Aug. 1964;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 29 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1830
Etchings England London 1830
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1830
England > London > 1830

Access: Public
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