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Portsmouth Point
Title
Portsmouth Point [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
Publication
[London] : [Thomas Tegg], [not before 1814]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 24.2 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Later state; former plate number "319" has been replaced with a new number, and date in lower left corner of design has been removed from plate.
Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication inferred from earlier state, which has the year "1814" etched in lower left corner of design. Cf. No. 12408 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "255" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 284-6.
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.
Summary
"A wide space leads to the harbour. On one side (left) is the corner of a large old clothes shop: 'Moses Levy Money Lent', with garments, &c., hanging from it. Opposite is the old-fashioned 'Ship Tavern'. Off shore are ships in full sail, boats are making towards them. In the foreground is a bustle of departure: baggage is being carried, casks are rolled, sailors and their women embrace or fight; a one-legged sailor plays a fiddle, a child plays with dogs. At the door of the 'Ship' an officer takes leave of his family; from the bow-window above spectators lean out, an officer using a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2024
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1814.
Etchings - England - London - 1814.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1824.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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