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Summer amusement. Bugg hunting

Title
Summer amusement. Bugg hunting [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [4 June 1811]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 34.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from Grego.
Plate numbered "82" 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.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Variant and related titles
Summer amusement. Bug hunting
Bugg hunting
Bug hunting
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 12, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 208
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1811.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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