The genius of caricature and his friends celebrating the completion of the second volume of the Caricature magazine in the Temple of Mirth [graphic] / Woodward delt.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
- Published/Created:
- London:
Pubd. July 2d, 1808, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside,
[2 July 1808] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.5 x 34.7 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Design incorporates small representations of prints included in the Caricature magazine; see British Museum catalogue for identificaitons of the depicted prints.
Plate numbered "50" in upper right corner.
Tailpiece to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- "The 'Genius of Caricature' presides at a dinner-table at which sit 'Lilliputians', cf. British Museum Satires No. 9635, &c, all with large grotesque heads, all laughing, and raising brimming glasses to drink the toast. The chairman wears a Harlequin suit, and though differing from the 'Genius' of British Museum Satires No. 10917 both have similar gap-toothed mouths and may be intended for Tegg. He gives Success to Volume the Third. A toast-master standing beside him holds up a fringed placard or banner inscribed: Mr Tegg, M' Tegg,! You're at home to a peg, Volume two is now fairly completed, Then to Cheapside repair, Ye who spurn at dull care, And with, Wit, Fun, & Frolic be treated, With Woodward we'll laugh, And with Rowlandson quaff, And drown every Folly absurd, Here's a toast to the brim, My gay children of Whim, Success to their Volume the Third. The guests are two women and five men, all middle-aged or elderly, and two with drink-blotched profiles. On the table is a basket of (?) olives labelled Jokes. Behind the chairman is an alcove, inscribed Mirth Admit Me Of Thy Crew. The walls recede in almost symmetrical perspective and are decorated with solidly mounted prints (or the original drawings) from the magazine."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Book illustrations.
Etchings--England--London--1808
Satires (Visual works)--England--1808.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 808.07.02.01+
808.07.02.01+ Impression 1
808.07.02.01+ Impression 2
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 9147826
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr11035
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11133
- OID:
- 16192463
- PID:
- digcoll:4046338
