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[WOODWARD, George Moutard. A Caricature Frieze. London: R. Ackermann, 1799].
A set of 18 hand-coloured etched caricatures (95 x 454mm), and one shorter strip (95 x 239mm), laid down on both sides of card mounts, the mounts joined as a succession of album pages. (First two mounts detached.) Blue buckram chemise and slipcase, blue morocco gilt title labels.
A fun-filled frieze by the pioneer of the strip cartoon. For Woodward’s contemporaries, ‘much of the attraction of his work lay in the captions, which relied heavily on wordplay and were sometimes couched in doggerel verse. He tended to choose his subjects from the middle and lower classes rather than high society’ (Simon Heneage in ODNB). In the strip illustrated the wordplay is based on quotations from Shakespeare.
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