Platonic love none but the brave deserve the fair! / [graphic]
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16192689
Description
- Title
- Platonic love none but the brave deserve the fair! / [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- May 30-1807.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by T. Tegg, Cheapside
- Abstract
-
"An old military officer wearing a high cocked hat sits in a handsome room, relating his adventures to a pretty young woman (left). He has lost both arms, and both legs from the knee; she holds the end of one of his stumps. A large pier-glass hangs on the pilastered wall. Decanter, glass, pipe, and tobacco-box are on a small table (right). ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
"Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue.
Nine lines of quotation excerpted from Shakespeare's Othello below title: "She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, "'twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful ...
Plate numbered "S. 2" 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.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Leaf 78 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 : sheet 28 x 21.4 cm
- Language
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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
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Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1807
England > London > 1807
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
- 8711371
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192689
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