V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The ... inscription, but not the signatures, is on a conventional curtain symmetrically arranged across the design, centred by a laughing mask of John Bull type. The design is flanked by a woman (left) and a man (right) seated and laughing, both ugly and elderly, both holding a print in which their heads and shoulders are reflected as if in a mirror. The curtain drops on each side of the central mask to disclose caricature heads, closely grouped, as if in the gallery of a theatre. Those on the left are directed to the right, those on the right to the left; a few are women. Most are amused, some scowl, one sleeps, one yawns. On the lower edge of the design, below the feet of the couple holding the prints, are burlesque 'Lilliputian' figures, characteristic of Woodward, see British Museum Satires no. 9635, &c. They diminish in scale from right and left towards the centre, where the curtain touches the base of the design. The two exterior figures (right and left) are zanies or pierrots. A man stands chapeau-bras looking through his glass at tiny figures at his feet."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Hudibrastic mirror
Description:
Title from text in image., Date from British Museum catalogue., Title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Text below imprint: Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. Horace Sat. Lib. I., Mounted on laid paper backing., and Title page to volume 1.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[13 October 1796]
Call Number:
796.10.13.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Engraved title page with a small vignette of the head of a smiling man with curly dark hair with a banner behind
Description:
Title page to a series of six plates: Every body in town. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Octr. 13, 1796, by G.M. Woodward, No. 11 Berners Street, Oxford St.
Inscribed: Louisa Cheveley, 7th June 1784. and Signed by the composer.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857, and Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1777-1848