"The death of Chunee, a large Asian elephant, kept at the Exeter Change menagerie; to the left; a group of soldiers and others, all carrying guns; some observing and others firing on Chunee to the right; who, roaring, breaks the bars of his wooden cage; blood pouring from many wounds and soaking the floor; the keeper, in shirtsleeves, stabbing the elephant with a bayonet; smoke obscuring the scene; behind; small iron-barred cages containg an agitated lion and tiger respectively; above hutches containing monkeys, one grasping the bars."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Destruction of the furious elephant at Exeter Exchange
Description:
Title etched below image., "Entered at Stationers Hall"--Above title., Issued with a broadside consisting of four columns of letterpress text, entitled "Interesting pariculars relating to the elephant." See Douglas., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "Price 1s. plain - 2s. coloured.", and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
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Pubd. March 6th, 1826, by J. Harrison, 56 Long Acre
Café de la Paix in all its glory and Dick Wildfire and Jenkins in a theatrical pandemonium
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatres -- Orchestra pits -- Tightrope dancer -- Clowns -- Audiences -- Performances.
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Published May 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins seeing "real life" in the galleries of the Palais Royal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. heading added to print above image: Life in Paris.
Publisher:
Published April 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Parisian cafes -- Musicians -- Fighting., Ms. heading added to print above image: Life in Paris., and Watermark: J Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Published Ap. 1, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Dick Wildfire and the captain promenading in the gardens of the Tuilleries
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Two men, elderly and grotesque, stand one on each side of a double-bass, playing it simultaneously with great vigour; one (right) is left-handed. Behind the instrument stands a violinist, holding up fiddle and bow in his right hand, giving an agonized scream and stopping his ear with his finger. In the foreground lies a large open music-book: 'Double Bass Hum strum diddle dum'. On the wall is a picture of a little chimneysweep flourishing two brushes like drum-sticks behind the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satires No. 11577), who capers along, pipe in one hand, staff in the other, her much-exaggerated posterior serving as a drum. A vase of flowers stands on a wall-bracket.'
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 21t 1813 by H Humphrey, St. James's Street London
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
Description:
Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Title from caption below central design., With either other drawings, some with captions including, starting with upper left: [untitled: man with a surprised look on his face]; Raw recruit; Do. dress'd; "Bird cage walk"; Do. dress'd up; An officer going to a ball; A ball going to an officer. Other untitled drawings include a profile of an officer., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper left corner: Pl. 3, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication information from series title page on verso of plate I., and One of eight plates of a series entitled: The drunkard's children : a sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / by George Cruikshank.