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    • Author/Creator:Elmes, William, active 1797-1820, printmaker.
    • Title:Prime bang up at Hackney, or, A peep at the balloon 12th Augt. [graphic] / Wm. E. [s]culp.
    • Publication:[London] : By Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheap Side, [1811]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 36 x 25 cm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
        Watermark: 1817.
        Leaf 80 in volume 2.
      • Provenance:Myers; May 1942.
        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.
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    • Medium:wove paper
    • Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Hackney church -- Balloon -- Tavern sign.
    • Notes:Title etched below image.
      Probably a later state; first half of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate.
      Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
      Plate numbered "80" in upper right corner.
      Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
      Also issued separately.
      "Price one shilling coloured."
      Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
    • Summary:"A plebeian crowd, much caricatured, cheers the majestic ascent of a balloon. On the right is part of an old-fashioned gabled building with a large projecting sign, 'Mermaid': a mermaid emerges from the sea holding up a comb and a wine-bottle. Two men and a woman sit on the beam of the sign, two other men climb up to it. In the foreground a fat woman has fallen over a sow and her litter. A sailor carries astride his shoulders a stout woman, who waves frantically. The roofs of coaches are crowded with cheering spectators. Others wave from distant roofs and from the square tower of Hackney Church. Two tiny aeronauts wave flags from the car of the balloon, which is vertically striped, with cross-bands round its circumference inscribed 'G. P. W', a crown, and 'P R'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
    • In_: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror. V. 2.
    • Variant and related titles:Peep at the balloon 12th Augt.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 11775
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1811.
      Etchings--England--London--1811.
      Watermarks (Paper)--1817.
    • Also listed under:Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9160017