Accession number
PML 145850.120
Published
[London] : [s.n.], [1732]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from text originally accompanying the published illustration.
Etching after a design by Egbert Heemskerck.
Satirical illustration of a printing house in three panels, from the Grub Street Journal, No. 147, 26 October 1732.
Mounted as item 120 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Etching after a design by Egbert Heemskerck.
Satirical illustration of a printing house in three panels, from the Grub Street Journal, No. 147, 26 October 1732.
Mounted as item 120 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 111 x 225 mm; plate mark: 125 x 233 mm; sheet: 138 x 248 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy inscribed at top: Printed on the top of Fogs journal agst Alderman Barber; at bottom left: Egb. Heemskerk inv.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a on the left, a compositor with the head of an ass standing "at case" setting up type, behind him a form of the Grub Street Journal lies on a desk. In the centre a group of printers work at a press, one with the head of a greyhound wearing a wig kicks a form of the Craftsman, a copy of Fog's Journal lies on the press, the master-printer, Janus faced, looks on, an owl is perched on top of the press and a devil stands behind. On the right, a devil is hanging printed sheets on lines stretched across a room; at the end of his stick is a sheet lettered, "Cases of Impotency" and on the lines sheets from political, official and obscene publications: Applebee's Journal, Read's Journal, the London Journal, the Universal Spectator, the Weekly Register ("1 1/2d"), Onania, Rochester's Poems, the Manual of Devotion and the Session Paper; a pile of copies of the Free Briton rests on a stool, and a bundle of the Examiner on the floor; the devil treads on the Hyp Doctor.
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