A rustic retort, or, A wit outwited [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A rustic retort, or, A wit outwited [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Rustic retort, or, A wit outwitted
Wit outwited
Wit outwitted - Creator
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1818?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by Tho. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Abstract
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"A dandy presents a clumsy countryman to three ladies, saying, "Ladies this is my Cousin! and tho a country Bumkin, I can assure you he is not so foolish as he appears to be!" The countryman, who is shock-headed, and wears old-fashioned dress with wrinkled gaiters, adds: "No Ladies and that is the precise difference between my Cousin and me!" Both men bow, hat in hand. The dandy has the high collar and tight waist of the dandies, with long tight pantaloons, and has an air of fashion. One lady looks through a lorgnette, two others sit together on a sofa. All wear evening-dress with long gloves. A comely maidservant places a chair for the visitors. The costume is that of c. 1818. On the wall is a half length portrait of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "To be thought, knowing, you must "first put the fool upon all mankind. Drydens Juvenal preface.
Plate numbered "314" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Leaf 12 in volume 5. - 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 24.2 x 35 cm, on 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.5
- Collection Title
- V. 5. 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 1818
Etchings England London 1818 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1818
England > London > 1818
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
- 12898441
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192605
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