Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by W. Lewis, Finch-Lane, Cornhill, [1824?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Date of publication from Van Devanter.
Contents:
Six colored aquatints, unsigned, from A day's journal of a sponge, by W.H. Pyne (London : W. Egerton, 1824) -- 12 colored aquatints (the first six are numbered) and the colored aquatint title page, from Fashionable bores or Coolers in high life by Peter Quiz, i.e. D.T. Egerton (London : T. McLean, 1824) -- 12 colored aquatints originally published as The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion, by by D.T. Egerton (London : T. McLean, 1823) -- 5 colored soft-ground etchings (numbered no. 2-6) after H. Alken, originally published as Specimens of riding near London (London : T. M'Lean, 1821) -- 14 colored soft ground etchings and colored lithographs, (from Humorous designs?) by Pigal and L. Boilly.
Subject Terms:
English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Horsemanship -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Satire, English. | Caricatures and cartoons. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | McLean, Thomas -- Publisher. | Egerton, W., -- Publisher. | Dixon, Fitz Eugene -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance) | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824. | Soft-ground etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1824. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1824.
Contributors:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851, ill. | Boilly, Louis, 1761–1845, ill. | Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842, ill. | Pigal, Edmé Jean, 1798–1872, ill. | Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842. Fashionable bores or coolers in high life. | Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842. Necessary qualifications of a man of fashion. | Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851. Specimens of riding near London. | Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843. Day's journal of a sponge.