The sailors defence!! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The sailors defence!! [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Sailors defense
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist
- Contributor
-
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"A sailor defends himself to a magistrate against a charge of beating up a man by saying he had no weapons except his fist."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker questionably identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue.
Later state, with previous plate numbering burnished from plate and new numbering etched in its place. For earlier state with "No. 5" in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.00.00.08.1.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.747.
Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lawyer: Country Magistrates -- Male costume: 1807 -- Constable's staff -- Inkwells -- Miniature crowns -- Constables.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.4 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 5 in volume 1. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print :
- Edition
- [State with "6" in upper right corner].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) Charles Wise - Material
- etching ; sheet 23.8 x 34.9 cm and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Military uniforms
British
Sailors - Subjects
-
Military uniforms > British
Sailors > British
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Charles Wise
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8567317
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192387
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