Peter Plumb's Diary

Inscription: in plate, above image center: "TEGG'S CARICATURES N. 18"; within image bottom center: "Pub.d May 20th 1810 by Tho.s Tegg No. 111 Cheapside."; lower right: "Price One Shilling Colored"; below image right: "Rolwndson Del."; along the bottom: "PETER PLUMB'S DIARY. / This honest Man being of greater Consequence in his own Thoughts, than in the Eye of the World, had for some Years past, kept a Journal of his Life—Videlisset [sic] / Monday Eight O Clock—I put on my Clothes, Washed Hands and face—Nine O Clock—Tied my knee Strings, put on my double soaled Shoes Took a Walk to Islington. One O Clock took a Luncheon / between Two and Three—Return'd, dined on a Knuckle of Veal and Bacon—Three—Nap as usual—Four to Six Walked in the Fields. Wind S.S.E. —from Six to Ten—went to the Club was half / an hour before any body else came— Ten at Night Went to Bed Slept without Waking till Nine next Morning— Tuesday Wenesday Thursday Friday S. S. little or no Variation—"

Francis Harvey (British); C. W. Dyson Perrins (British)(sale Sotheby's Jan. 12, 1959); Vendor: Sotheby's, London (Jan. 12, 1959, lot 163)

Grego II.187, 401; British Museum Satires 11623

Frederic George Stephens, M. Dorothy George Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 11 vols., London, 1870-, cat. no. 11623, p. 968.

Joseph Grego Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A selection from his works, with anecdotal desciptions.... 2 vols., London, 1880, vol. II.187, 401.