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A worldly-wise-man, or, A man wise in his own conceit
Title
A worldly-wise-man, or, A man wise in his own conceit [graphic] / Woodward del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Publication
[London] : [Thomas Tegg], [April 1808]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 15.8 x 9.9 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from engraved frontispiece to the volume; see no. 11155 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate from: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Numbered "9" in upper left corner.
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
"An elderly man, in profile to the right, pompously stressing his argument by enumerating points on his fingers."--British Museum catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Man wise in his own conceit
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11163
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 118
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1808.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
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