Portraits of the bellmen in the Wonderful Magazine Part 1.
[London] : [Alexander Hogg?], [1793]
Title from copy of the print in the British Museum.
From the 'Wonderful Magazine' (a weekly publication, 1793-4), [Vol. i published by C. Johnson, vols. ii-v by Alexander Hogg] ii. 351.
Library's copy trimmed and cropped, with loss of caption title at head of sheet.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Sixteen whole length figures, reprinted from the covers of sixteen issues of the "Wonderful magazine", arranged in two rows, all in profile, or directed to the right. Each holds a bell, and personates the parish bellman who was accustomed to present his clients at Christmas with a set of engraved verses. The verses were first printed, with the woodcut, on the cover of the weekly issues, afterwards reprinted to accompany this folding plate. The name of each is printed over his head: 'A Spaniard', 'Sans Culotte', 'Stephen Stupid', 'Obadiah Prim' (a Quaker), 'C. J. Fox', 'W. Pitt', 'The Royal Bellman' (the King in his robes), 'Beef-Eater', 'A Welchman', 'Peter Pindar Esq.', 'Sir Jeff. Dunstan', 'Jack Tar', 'An Irishman', 'A Scotchman', 'Harrison's Barber', 'A Blackguard'. Pitt and Peter Pindar hold copies of the Magazine.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.