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1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror by Thomas Rowlandson, Esqr. Vol. II. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1807?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
- Collection Title:
- V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Title-page; the title is engraved across the centre of the page. Above are two festoons of ribbon centred by a bow from which is suspended in a round frame a half length figure of a jester in a fool's cap, and inscribed 'Comic Mirror'. Below it is a loop of ribbon inscribed 'To hold as t'were the Mirror up to Nature. Shakespeare.' One festoon (left), inscribed 'Country Observations on the Caricature Magazine', supports half length figures inspecting bound numbers (or volumes) of the Magazine. A comely woman says: "Come John let me look don't Keep it all to yourself." Two oafish men hold an open book, saying, "Dont be in a hurry well these things be the drollest things ever sent into our Country," and "There be one exactly like our Exciseman." A third man inspects a volume, saying, "I wonder how they think of all these things." The other festoon, 'Town Observations on the Caricature Magazine', supports two men and two women (three-quarter length), ugly but quasi-fashionable, eagerly inspecting the (bound) prints. They say: "It is certainly very amuseing"; "Pray Sir have they commenced the second Volume"; "Just got the first number Ma'am from Mr Teggs." The lower part and sides of the design are flanked by two processions. On the left are 'Whimsical Characters ascending to the Temple of Fame'. Men and women in back view ascend, receding in perspective to a round temple on which Fame blows his trumpet. Those in the foreground are a fat parson, a foppish military officer wearing a huge crescent-shaped cocked hat, a fat 'cit' arm-in-arm with a thin lady. A Highlander walks in front of them. On the left is 'A Grotesque Deputation from the Temple of Momus - returnig [sic] thanks for past favors and soliciting future patronage.' These are Lilliputian figures (cf. British Museum Satire No. 9635, &c.) with large grotesque heads of men and women, all grinning, who descend from a temple on which straddles Momus. Between the two processions and forming a tail-piece is 'The Genius of Caricature opening the Second Volume.' A man with a large grinning face, faun's ears, and butterfly wings, wearing a Harlequin suit, and perhaps a fantastic representation of Tegg, see British Museum Satire No. 11133, sprawls on the ground holding an open volume: 'Caricature Magazine Vol 2d.' His elbow rests on 'Caricature Magazine, Vol. 1.' Beside him are (left) papers inscribed 'Bulls', 'Anecdotes', 'Jests', 'Puns', 'Bon Mot[s]', and (right) separate prints."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Hudibrastic mirror
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Second state of the plate, with Rowlandson's name replacing Woodward's name in title. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.65., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Text below imprint: Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. Horace Sat. Lib. I., and Title page to volume 2.
- Publisher:
- Published by T. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror by Thomas Rowlandson, Esqr. Vol. II. [graphic]
2. The caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror by G.M. Woodward, Esq. Vol. III / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1808]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Hudibrastic mirror and Follies of the day in Lilliput
- Description:
- Title etched in center of image., Text within ribbon above title: The follies of the day in Lilliput., Design includes seven small scenes, each with a title etched above within a ribbon., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Imperfect; volume number "III" in title has been erased from sheet and replaced with the number "5," written in ink a contemporary hand. Missing text supplied from description of a reissue of the plate in the British Museum catalogue., For an 1821 reissue of the plate, see no. 11134 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Print modified for use as the title page to a different volume, with the manuscript number "5" replacing the erased number "III" in tile., and Title page to volume 5.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Tegg, 1808, 111 Cheapside, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror by G.M. Woodward, Esq. Vol. III / [graphic]