V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An aged surgeon leans over a bag of instruments on a table (right), selecting a knife; he wears an old-fashioned wig, hat, coat, &c. A pretty girl seizes him by the arm; she shouts at him, pointing behind her to his subject, a young man lying on a trestle-table, fully dressed and apparently in perfect health, who has just wakened, horrified. In an open cupboard stands a skeleton (left). On the wall is a notice: 'A Course of Anatomical Lectures accompanied with Dissections will be delivered tommorrow Even[ing] by Professer Sawbone.' [An early use of the word 'Sawbone'. Partridge gives the date as from c. 1835, citing Sam Weller in 'Pickwick' (1837).] Two lighted candles stand on the table. On the lintel of the door is a bust of (?) Hippocrates frowning down at the scene."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
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. March 12, 1811, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11800 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "60" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 202., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.5 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 74 in volume 2.
Publisher:
By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Eyeglasses, Medical equipment & supplies, and Skeletons
