Frontispiece to the Mechanics Magazine [graphic]Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist[between 1833 and 1835]engDesign consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image"Newman's Frontispiece to the Mechanics Magazine ... gathers together a wearied collection of ancient puns based on dictionary definitions: two native Americans playing cards represent "India Rubber," women swimming and diving are inevitably "Diving Belles," and two brawling street knife grinders are "A Cutler's Mill." Only one image retains something of a political edge. "Perpetual Motion" shows an unending line of the poor winding in and out of a moneylender's shop, onward into, and out of, a wine and brandy merchant's premises, and then finally into, but not out of, a workhouse."--Maidment, B.E. "Subversive Supplements: Satirical Title Pages of the Periodical Press in the 1830s." In: Victorian Periodicals Review, v. 43, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pages 141-142Title from text at top of design; letter "z" in "Magazine" is reversed.Publisher might be Richard Carlisle Junior, who operated out of 26 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, beginning in 1833; see the post entitled "T. Paine of Holywell Street" from the Yesterday's Papers blog (http://john-adcock.blogspot.com; accessed 21 November 2024).A publication date between 1833 and 1835 is suggested by Matthew Crowther for such "Frontispiece" prints by Newman; see his post entitled "Rediscovering W. Newman, fl. c. 1834-35" from The Printshop Window website (theprintshopwindow.wordpress.com; accessed 21 November 2024).