London : Printed and published by J.B. Goodinge, 21, Aldersgate Street, 1859.
Physical Description:
31 images on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 14 x 305 cm, accordion folded to 14 x 15 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts QE31 .W43 1859Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View catalog record for a watercolor copy of Geology familiarly illustrated
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13300727
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
A semi-continuous series of images depicting geological strata, named, together with humorous visual puns on the geological names. "Oolite formation," for example, depicts a stratum of oolite, underneath a depiction of a woman whose dress has caught fire; "trap" depicts a geological trap, beneath the image of an unlucky hunter with foot ensnared in a leghold trap; "extensive denudation" depicts a stratum of Kentish rag, beneath the image of a man at the barber with denuded head.At foot of plate 1: "Drawn by C.M. Webber."Title from publisher's original printed label on front cover.Imprint from publisher's printed label on rear pastedown.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 607BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original decorative cloth folder, with printed label on front cover.
Subject Terms:
Caricatures and cartoon -- Great Britain. | Wit and humor, Pictorial. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor. | Geology -- Popular works. | Goodinge, J. B. -- Publisher.
