Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
John Gilpin's return to London.
Call Number
C South 02/Drawer 04/GC112/Full Folio GA 2014.00836
Identifier
ark:/88435/h415pj662
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1785/05/14.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1785
Extent
1 item ; print 46 x 64.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, p. 174
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
Inscribed in plate, lower margin: "Away went Gilpin, and away // went Postboy at his heels, The Postboy's horse right glad to miss // The lumbering of the wheels. Scamp'ring in the rear, // They rais'd the hue and cry: Stop thief! All that pass'd that way, // Soon join'd in the pursuit."
Signed in plate, lower left: "H. Wigstead 1785".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Designd & etchd by H. Wigstead".
Signed in plate, lower right: "The Aquatinto by F. Jukes".
Unsigned by Rowlandson. Most of Wigstead's drawings were really drawn by Rowlandson, including two exhibited at the Royal Academy under Wigstead's name, but are clearly by Rowlandson.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Cowper, William 1731-1800—John Gilpin
Poetry, English—18th century—Illustrations
English literature—18th century—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/39a76e44-84eb-4a5d-a448-f6a421fed868/manifest