Title-page. The above inscription, but not the signatures, is on a conventional curtain symmetrically arranged across the design, centred by a laughing mask of john bull type. The design is flanked by a woman (l. ) and a man (r. ) seated and laughing, both ugly and elderly, both holding a print in which their heads and shoulders are reflected as if in a mirror. The curtain drops on each side of the central mask to disclose caricature heads, closely grouped, as if in the gallery of a theatre. Those on the left are directed to the right. , those on the r. To the left.;a few are women. Most are amused, some scowl, one sleeps, one yawns. On the lower edge of the design, below the feet of the couple holding the prints, are burlesque 'lilliputian' figures, characteristic of woodward, see bmsat 9635, &c. They diminish in scale from r. And l. Towards the centre, where the curtain touches the base of the design. The two exterior figures (r. And l. ) are zanies or pierrots a man stands chapeau-bras looking through his glass at tiny figures at his feet. 1807
hand-coloured etching. Date: between 1800 and 1809. Dimensions: Height: 245 mm; Width: 348 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The caricature magazine or hudibrastic mirror by G. M. Woodward, Esqr. Author of eccentric excursions (BM 1991,0720.41)
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