Looking at the comet till you get a criek [sic] in the neck [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Looking at the comet till you get a criek [sic] in the neck [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck
Looking at the comet till you get a crick in the neck - Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 20 September 1811]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"An ugly old man wearing night-cap, dressing-gown, and slippers stands at an open window gazing up through a spy-glass at a comet shaped like a large shuttle-cock. Keys hang from his waist. Behind him (left) sits a pretty young woman, turning her head to look at the comet, but giving her right hand to a young man who kneels beside her, while she presses her foot on his. She wears a long fur boa over her evening dress."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 20th, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11810 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "91" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
"Price one shilling colour'd."
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 210-11.
Temporary local subject terms: Comet -- Spy glass -- curtains.
Leaf 85 in volume 2. - 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 : plate mark 35 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
- Collection Title
- V. 2. 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 1811
Etchings England London 1811 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1811
England > London > 1811
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
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
- 12859629
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192513
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