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The caricature magazine, or, Mirror of mirth being a collection of humourous & satirical caricatures, designed & engraved by Thomas Rowlandson, Esqr
Title
The caricature magazine, or, Mirror of mirth [graphic] : being a collection of humourous & satirical caricatures, designed & engraved by Thomas Rowlandson, Esqr.
Publication
London : Published by Thomas Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35.1 x 25 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title from text in image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Date from Grego; the British Museum catalogue suggests a date of 1809.
Probably a title page to: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?].
For a proof state before letters, see no. 11458 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Provenance
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.
Summary
"Many heads, grotesque and otherwise, are grouped round an oval space ... . The figures along the lower margin are half length, and look upwards. Some seem to be characters in a masquerade. They include (above): an ugly old parson preaching (the centre figure), flanked by a doctor sniffing a medicine-bottle, and a lawyer shouting from his 'Brief'. Above him is the head and arm of a soldier, in violent action, and with a skull (Death) grinning at his unconscious profile. There are also (inter multa alia) a pretty young woman with an infant, a grossly drink-blotched monk holding a bottle, a devil clasping a young woman wearing a small mask across her eyes, a witch with a broom, a Chinese, a Turk. ... This title-page is not used in either of two sets of the [Caricature] magazine inspected."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a proof state.
Variant and related titles
Mirror of mirth
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 115-6
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Title pages.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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