• Title
  The March of Intellect. Mechanical, 1829 / Designed and Etched by R. Seymour
• Creator
  Robert Seymour, 1798-1836
• Call number
  SV/256
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  London : Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket, 1829
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  1008801
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - etching - 24.6 x 34.6 cm plate mark, on paper sheet 28.1 x 43.6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Robert Seymour (1798-1836) was a British London-based illustrator and caricaturist. His works were prominent in the 1820s and 1830s in prints, books and periodicals. He provided illustrations for Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers and several commercial printings with publishers to great public success. He is profiled in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography wherein this work is exemplified as reflecting his maturation as a caricaturist and etcher, after which he experienced significant career advancement within his profession.
  
  References:
  Design & Art Australia Online. http://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-seymour/personal_details/? (accessed November 16, 2012)
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25180?docPos=3 (accessed November 16, 2012)
• Scope and Content
  Six satirical vignettes published by Thomas McLean, London, based on the concept of the potential uses of steam power. The drawings depict, in clockwise direction from top left: 'War by steam'; a flying machine; 'Phrenological cases. To form the intellect'; 'Amputation by steam'; 'Quick passage to the Antipodes', which shows a shaft drilled from the northern to the southern hemisphere through which people are transported upside-down, so that when they reach the other side they will be standing upright!; and 'Beauty makers from Paris', in which people are depicted being stretched into absurd shapes by a steam-driven machine.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a6966001
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Thomas McLean & Co.
  
• Subject
  Cartoonists--England.
  inventions
  Artists--England--19th century.
  Satire in art.
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  etchings
  satire
  cartoons
  steam-powered vehicles
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312996

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