[Joseph Ritson] [graphic] / J.S. ft.
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Copyright Date:
- 22d March 1803.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 27 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 40 x 31 cm
- Notes:
- Four lines of English text above imprint: Fierce meagre pale no commentator's friend. Purs. Lit. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the Earth ...
One line of Greek text below Latin verse.
One line of Latin verse below image: Impiger iracundus, inexorabilis acer [Horace, Ars Poetica].
Signed with the initials of James Sayers.
Temporary local subject terms: Ink well -- 'Common Place' -- Iron gall ink.
Title from British Museum catalogue. - Abstract:
- "Ritson stands at a desk in profile to the Ieft, writing in a large book, both pages headed 'Common Place'. His finger- and toe-nails are talons; he dips his pen in an ink-stand inscribed 'Gall', and has written: 'Moses an Impostor the prophets old Cloaths Men of Judæa Warburton a fool Dr Percy a Liar Warton an infamous Liar a pipeer [Ritson adopted a system of spelling chiefly characterized by a duplication of the letter e. 'D.N.B.'] better than a parson'. He wears a tightly buttoned overcoat and a top-hat; his toes project through broken shoes. From his pocket projects a pamphlet: 'The Atheist's pocket Companion.' He stands on a slab of (damaged) papers headed 'Dr Percy's Antient Balla[ds]'. his feet is a large open book; on one page is a half length portrait of Thomas Warton stabbed through with a knife and fork; on the other, 'History of English Poetry'. The room is filled with heavy folio volumes and vegetable products; there is a small window with cracked panes. A cow (head only visible) munches at a basket of large leaves beside a paper: 'Bill of Fare \ Nettle Soup \ Sour Crout \ Horse Beans \ Onions Leeks'. On a top shelf an emaciated cat, heavily chained, strains in vain towards two rats who nibble a bunch of candles; beside it is an open book: 'Abstinence from animal Food a moral duty'. Below, 'The Bible' slants across a gap in the book-shelf labelled 'Old Romances'. On Ritson's desk (left) is a pile of books on which squats a frog; on it vegetables are heaped."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Impiger iracundus, inexorabilis acer
- Topics:
- Books.
Cats.
Cows.
Desks.
Frogs.
Rats.
Vegetables.
Writing materials. - Topics:
- Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ritson, Joseph,--1752-1803--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sayers, James,--1748-1823--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Aquatints--England--London--1803.
Etchings--England--London--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- 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:
- Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Orbis Record:
- 8393675
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr33065
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10171
- OID:
- 16819393
- PID:
- digcoll:4776610
