File:The Midnight Magistrate (BM 1880,0807.36).jpg
Original file (1,600 × 1,407 pixels, file size: 211 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Captions
Summary
[edit]The Midnight Magistrate
(   ) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
Print made by: Elisha Kirkall
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
The Midnight Magistrate |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Singerie satire on 'hireling constables'; a constable sitting holding his staff inside the watch-house, dimly lit with candles and lantern, passing light judgement, for a consideration, on a young gentleman and a woman with cat's heads brought before him by two members of the watch, the foremost of whom holds the woman and displays his broken lanthorn, falsely accusing the gentleman; other watchmen, all with apes' heads, including one sitting by the fire behind to right, with an owl perched on the door, men and a woman with cat's heads and the towers of Westminster Abbey visible through the door to left; after E Heemskerck II.
Mezzotint |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between 1697 and 1742 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
Height: 390 millimetres
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
1880,0807.36 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
In the verse, 'Sr. John' is a reference to Sir John Fielding. BMSat describes two almost identical versions of the same subject under 3275 and (reversed) 5618. The former is dated 24 December 1754, engraved and published by W Tringham; concerning the latter, dated 1 December 1779, George describes an impression with the title cut off, with 'Nixon fecit' added in a contemporary hand, and notes that it was published in the Westminster Magazine vii 593, described there as 'taken from a slight painting of Hemskirk Junior, but here altered, adapted, and highly finished by that promising young artist, M. Moreland junior'. There is also a version of this by William Dickinson (2010,7081.3009) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0807-36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
[edit]This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.  | ||||
.jpg&action=edit§ion=1){kind=link}
.jpg&action=edit§ion=2){kind=link}
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 11:51, 8 May 2020 | | 1,600 × 1,407 (211 KB) | Copyfraud (talk | contribs) | British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1697 #153/593 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg&oldid=885677869){kind=link}