The Genius of Caricature, and his Friends, celebrating the completion of the Second Volume of the Caricature Magazine in the Temple of Mirth
After George Murgatroyd Woodward British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British
Associated artist Thomas Rowlandson British
Not on view
At a celebratory dinner, the "Genius of Caricature" sits at the head wearing a harlequin suit and offering a toast, with "Lilliputians" around the table. An arch at the back is lettered: "Mirth Admit Me of Thy Crew" (a quote from Milton's L'Allegro) and the walls are hung with images from the magazine, each titled below. A toast master holds a lettered banner that reads:
"Mr Tegg, M' Tegg,!
You're at home to a peg,
Volume two is now fairly completed
Then to Cheapside repair,
Ye who spurn at dull care,
And with, Wit, Fun, & Frolic be treated
With Woodward we'll laugh,
And with Rowlandson quaff,
And drown every Folly absurd,
Here's a toast to the brim
My gay children of Whim,
Success to their Volume the Third"
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