Iohn Bull making observations on the comet [graphic] / Woodward delin. ; Rowlandson scul.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [not before 10 November 1807]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 39 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Later state; former plate number "29" has been replaced with a new number, and date has been removed from end of imprint statement.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Printed for Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, 10th Novr. 1807. Cf. No. 10769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "274" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured." - Abstract:
- "The comet has the profile head of Napoleon wearing a plumed bicorne; it rushes up from the left towards the sun, the profile head of George III, much irradiated. John Bull, a carbuncled 'cit', stoops low to look through a telescope on a tripod pointing towards the comet. Napoleon looks up at the King, who gazes fixedly above his head. He has ascended from a small piece of land rising from the narrow Channel separating it from John's wider fragment. Up this a frog clambers. On the open sea ships are strung out along the horizon. John says: "Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
- Variant Titles:
- John Bull making observations on the comet
- Topics:
- John Bull (Symbolic character)--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-BR
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson 8:75
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4 - Orbis Record:
- 12872133
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr10934
- Citation:
- Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 82-3
- OID:
- 16192447
- PID:
- digcoll:4046323
