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Le Diable-boiteux, or, The devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
Title
Le Diable-boiteux, or, The devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise [graphic].
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [not before 8 February 1806]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 28.1 x 21.7, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 10525 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Attribution following title: Vide le Sage.
Plate numbered "110" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
Variant and related titles
Devil upon two sticks conveying John Bull to the land of promise
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2016
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1806.
Etchings - England - London - 1806.
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