Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Title:
A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].
Published / Created:
London : Published for the proprietor, by Rowney and Forster, 51, Rathbone Place, 1824.
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1479.P96 D39 1824+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Cover title.

"Price half-a-guinea" at foot of upper wrapper.

Engraved throughout.

Title within ornamental borders.

Peter Pasquin is a pseudonym of William Henry Pyne. Cf. Halkett and Laing.

Plates and illustrations were published by W. Egerton, London, 1824.

Although plates are unsigned, Abbey suggests they may be by M. Egerton.

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature (1926-62 edition), II, 12

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 289

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Original brown wrappers. Lower wrapper missing.
Subject Terms:
English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Social aspects. | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Humor. | Satire, English. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Rowney and Forster -- Publisher | Egerton, W. -- Publisher
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824
Contributors:
Pasquin, Peter. | Egerton, M., active 1824–1827.