A sailor sitting for his miniature [graphic] / Woodward delin. ; etch'd by Roberts.
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker.
- Published/Created:
- London : [London] :
Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle Row, Holborn ;
Pubd. Janry. [...] T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside,
[not before 1807] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.2 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint is still present below title, with Tegg's imprint added in bottom of design. The year "1807" in Tegg's imprint is obscured with etched lines, suggesting that the plate was reissued more than once. See British Museum online catalogue.
Plate numbered "241" in upper right corner, altered from "242" on earlier state. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Dressing-gown -- Furniture: Desk -- Sailors -- Pipes -- Punch-bowl. - Abstract:
- "The artist [a portrait of Woodward], wearing a flowered dressing-gown, sits in profile to the right. at a sloping desk, painting on a small oval a bust portrait of a sailor who sits truculently (right), smoking a pipe, arms akimbo. The sailor wears a round hat, short jacket, knotted handkerchief, striped trousers and buckled shoes. On his cheek is a round black patch. At his elbow is a punch-bowl. He says: "Come my Hearty - mind what you are at - make good use of your Eyes - you know the terms on which I set sail - ten golden quids if you come to Anchor in ten minutes - but a minute beyond time, and you have but five you know, so heave a head do you hear - and lay in plenty of the true-blue about the jacket, - and Harkee Young-one - don't forget the beauty spot on the lar-board side of my Cheek - Poll calls it her hearts delight, - well this same painting is a fine knack to be sure - but I am rather puzzled about one thing - If you can get my hulk, head, and stern into that there little bit of ivory - d------n me, but I think you would be able to tow a seventy-four through one of the cock boat Arches of London Bridge"."--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:
- Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW
Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman--1824.--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:
- 807.01.01.03+
807.01.01.03+ Impression 1
807.01.01.03+ Impression 2
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4 - Orbis Record:
- 8606632
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr14567
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10894
- OID:
- 16192725
- PID:
- digcoll:4046587
