Proof positive, or, No deceiving a sailor [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Proof positive, or, No deceiving a sailor [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- No deceiving a sailor
- Creator
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Contributor
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Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [not before 1 January 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"A sailor stands by the head of a saddled horse, looking knowingly at a smart ostler (left). The horse is clumsy and misshapen with shaggy fetlocks; it urinates against a stone wall (right). The ostler says, with a superior grin, "I tell you Master Bowling that is the same Horse you brought here." The sailor answers: "You tell me you Lubber! do you think I dont know better than that. I tell you I examined the works - and my vessel was not half so much bent in the bows and the Cabin lights were clearer - but what Grapples the whole is this. My Vessel leaked towards the Midships - and this d'ye see leaks abaft"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Questionable artist attribution to Woodward from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Later reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint in lower left corner of design is totally obscured by etched lines; Tegg's imprint was added to the right of Roberts's obscured imprint for the initial reissue but was burnished from the plate for this later reissue. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: London, Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1807, by T. Tegg - Cheapside. Cf. No. 10892 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "263" 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 on top and bottom edges.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 43 in volume 4. - 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 : sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1803
England > London > 1807
1817
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
- Catalog Record
- 12894079
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192426