"An elderly man stands in profile to the left, holding a looped tricorne in his left hand. He wears a small wig and a buttoned coat, with buckled shoes, his dress being plain, neat, and old-fashioned. He is William Fletcher (1739-1826), banker and bookseller of Oxford, Mayor of Oxford in 1782, 1796, and 1809."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Oxford bankers -- Mayor of Oxford.
Title from letterpress text printed below plate., Plate numbered '488' in the upper left corner., Date of publication and artist from British Museum catalogue., Forty lines of verse printed on broadside portion: To a village that skirted the sea, an exciseman one midsummer came, but prudence, between you and me, forbids me to mention his name ..., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published by R.H. Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman and customs official exchange insults."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.748
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Krumbhaar., Plate numbered "122" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A countryman and customs official exchange insults."--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.748
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Krumbhaar., Plate numbered "122" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.4 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 61 in volume 2.
Title and statements of responsibility from British Museum catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and artist and printmaker signatures., and Temporary local subject terms: Skeletons -- Dancing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1808 by Willm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur Street
"Bust of an old man weeping, intended for Heraclitus."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Numbered "17" in upper left corner., and Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Canopy beds -- Tea -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1808 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"Heading to printed verses: 'Sung with great Applause by Mr Fawcett, in Mr. Allingham's New Farce, called "Who Wins, or the Widow's Choice"'. A fat cobbler points out his stall (left) to a thin ragged man whose dress aims at gentility. Above a shabby 'bulk' partly below street-level, is a placard: 'Boots & Shoes Neatly Made or Mended by me Jonathan Saveall'. Behind (right) is the corner of 'Grubb Street'. A ballad-singer with children sings outside the shop of 'Simon Sloop': on a window-pane: 'Hot Ox Cheek Shin of Beef &c.' Behind is a street of cottages, one 'A Day School'. The men came to London together, one has thriven on leather, the other has starved on poetry and learning."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cobler and poet and Cobbler and poet
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper left corner: 487., and Four verses printed on sheet in letterpress below plate mark: William and Jonathan came to town together, William had learning, and Jonathan some leather...
Publisher:
Publish'd Apr. 25, 1808 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A man wearing a hat, long coat, and top-boots, stands directed to the left, head in profile, holding a long-lashed coach whip; over his left arm hangs a bulky multiple-collared coat, in his hand is a 'Way Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue and "He is Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart who matriculated as a Commoner 1790 at University College, aged eighteen, but never graduated. He ran a four-horse coach between Oxford and London, had to give up the road owing to accidents, and in 1815 was made Esquire Bedel in Law. He died 1838."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Classical alma mater coachman Oxford
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 32 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.2 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads & Co. 1808., and Figure identified as "Mr. Bobart" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A man wearing a hat, long coat, and top-boots, stands directed to the left, head in profile, holding a long-lashed coach whip; over his left arm hangs a bulky multiple-collared coat, in his hand is a 'Way Bill'."--British Museum online catalogue and "He is Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart who matriculated as a Commoner 1790 at University College, aged eighteen, but never graduated. He ran a four-horse coach between Oxford and London, had to give up the road owing to accidents, and in 1815 was made Esquire Bedel in Law. He died 1838."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
