[Wood engraved blocks for caricatures] [realia].Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker[1820s and 1830s]engFour engraved boxwood printing blocks with comic scenes after Robert Cruikshank, Robert Seymour, and C.J. Grant[First block]: A woodcut after a print by I. R. Cruikshank, "Seated at Coventry" (from 'The Book of Wonders' page 71). Cobbett sits a galloping ass, holding its tail and raising a birch-rod to smite. It is decorated with ribbons; from its rump issues a cloud inscribed 'Paper against Gold.'[Second block]: A scene with a kicking donkey disrupting a picnic. After Robert Seymour?[Third block]: Five intoxicated men sit around a table drinking and smoking; each man is attended by a small demon, while Death (personified as a skeleton holding a scythe and an hourglass) looms large in the background[Fourth block]: A man wearing a tall tophat, punches another man (left) off his feet and sending him backwards as blood gushing from his nose; an astonished woman watches from the background on the right. In the background left the window with broken glass panes and on the wall on the right, a framed picture of a man's head, a grin on his face. The block is signed lower left with the initials CJG (that is, Charles James Grant).Title and date supplied by cataloger.First block engraved after a design by Robert Cruikshank. For a description of this print, see no. 14040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.Shelved with a copy of each print produced from the blocks, on modern paper.