print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.1335.1-2
- Title
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Object: Punch's bowl.
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Series: Punch in London
- Description
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No. 1; a letterpress paper of eight pages, headed with wood-engraved vignette and illustrated with second cut on the last page. 14 January 1832
(1) Vignette heading to Nos. 1-6 [18 Feb.]. Punch, apparently adapted from G. Cruikshank (Reid, 1428), postures angrily in the showman's box, his baton tied between his hands. Below: 'He'll play you all the puppets i'the town over, and the players, every company, and his own company, too. He spares nobody.—Ben Jonson.' From Nos. 7-17 (the last) there is a different vignette, with the same motto: Punch displays a peep-show, 'Punch's Shew-Up', to fashionable spectators. Five little scenes are surrounded by clouds: tax-eaters, including a bishop and a lady (see No. 16940) petition the King. Another scene is a printing-press (cf. No. 13518) close to a meeting for Reform. The letters of the title are formed of one or two tiny figures of Punch in acrobatic attitudes; this is reprinted only on Nos. 16 and 17. The paper is an imitation of Figaro in London, see No. 16830.
(2) PUNCH'S BOWL. (No. 16928)
Vignette heading to a column of' Facetiae' in every number of Punch in London. Punch sits in a punch-bowl, holding up glass and ladle. Round the bowl dance little figures composed of the ingredients of punch: lemons, a bottle, &c.
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 212 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 157 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Punch in London
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.1335.1-2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1982,U.4518
