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New York, Dover Publications [1970]

©1970

Opis fizyczny

vii pages, 163 pages of illustrations 28 cm

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Seria

Dover pictorial archive series.

Uwagi

"The pictures have been selected from a series of engravings ... published in London in the late 1780's and early 1790's by the firm of Bowles and Carver. All the illustrations are reproduced in original size from original impressions."

Before the invention of photography, in the days when illustrated books were inordinately costly, one means of satisfying the universal human desire for pictures was the so-called "catch-penny." This was an engraved sheet of paper, sometimes filled with illustrations, sometimes with verse, sometimes with both, but hawked on the streets of London for a penny. Millions of these broadsides must have been printed in the 18th century, but most of them have perished or lie inaccessible in the print collection of the great libraries. Plebeian humor, vital, earthy, is the chief characteristic of this range of prints: familiar types of the day, perhaps individuals (Peggy Bacon-face, Squire Somebody, Bet Boozer); the characters of literature (Sir John Falstaff, in a particularly gross form); birds and animals, by artists who surely never saw them; children's born-book sheets, with alphabets, objects to be spelled, early nursery rhymes, including the first appearance of certain Mother Goose rhymes; ladies of fashion; Captain Macheath and Lucy Locket from The Beggar's Opera; great ships; trades, occupations, street cries; the Royal Family; the traditional heroes of England; puzzle pictures -- find the giant; soldiers; The Wonderful Pig; and a host of others.

Collated 19961107 Damaged. UkLNAL

Temat

Prints, English -- 18th century.

England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Pictorial works.

Medicine -- History -- 18th century.

Engraving and Engravings -- history

History, 18th Century

Medicine

Manners and customs

Prints, English

England

Gatunek

History

Pictorial works

Library (institution) copies (document genres -- England -- 1960-1979.

Hasło dodatkowe

Bowles & Carver.

Powiązania

Online version: Catchpenny prints. New York, Dover Publications [1970] (OCoLC)988271674

ISBN

0486225690 (paperback)

9780486225692 (paperback)