Title Page, The Caricature Magazine by G. M. Woodward, vol. 4

George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson

1821 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Tegg's "Caricature Magazine" first appeared in 1807 and each issue was given a different title page. This example reused a plate created in 1809, altered the text and the hand coloring (see 59.533.1224 for the earlier version). Two figures below may represent the artist Woodward and Tegg, with the man at left sketching a caricature and sitting below a framed image of a Masquerade and the word Humour; that at right holding a whip and sitting beneath a picture of a Country Dance and the word Satire. Laurels frame the title and publication details, with the latter topped with a swag lettered "Vive la Bagatelle," and a mask, here dark-skinned, held by cupids. Text further above reads "Ever Changing" and "Ever New."

Artist

George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1821

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959