Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Politicians and chancellor after the woolsack fire, begging for money to John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "59" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 59.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Pleading (Begging), Poor persons, Bagpipes, and Cats
"Alderman Wood, as a zany at a fair, stands on a platform outside a booth addressing a crowd of spectators, half length figures in the foreground forming the base of the design. He points with his right thumb to the Queen (left), who is ready to perform, dressed much as in British Museum Satires No. 14103 but more grotesquely. On the right are Brougham and Denman, as beefeaters, with the letters 'C R' on the breast, but with legal wig and bands; each has a trumpet; that of Denman, who blows it, has a banner 'Solicit you in General'. Wood has ass's ears, wears a fool's cap and red and yellow gown (see British Museum Satires No. 14122) over his suit, with big jack-boots. Under his arm is a bulky rolled document; he holds out a placard: 'Signora Diable Humbuggina now exhibiting with most astonishing Effect.' His words are etched on a big tricolour placard above his head: 'Now then Ladies and Gemmen, here ye has Signora Diable Humbuggina, the most wonderfullest conjuress that ever vas seed at home or abroad. The most perfect Amphibrous Nondescript Hannimal that was ever seed before or behind. She has exhibited her Genus to all the crowned Potentaties, and all the principalest Men in all Europe including the Day of Alljeers [Tunis, see British Museum Satires No. 12810] von o' the best Judges in this here Universe. This here living vonder o' the vorld can conjure dunghill grubs and Knights of all sorts [see British Museum Satires No. 13810], ride a Donkey [see British Museum Satires No. 14015] a Zebra [see British Museum Satires No. 14110] and her high-horse at von and the same time. Sleep 40 days & nights under the same Tent vith a man, and never be wicious [see British Museum Satires No. 13818]. She can play with all the grace that ever vas, Columbine, Automaton [see British Museum Satires No. 14120, &c.] Pilgrim [see British Museum Satires No. 14121], or Dragon, and swallow all sorts of Spirity liquors by the Gallon and never be the Vorserer [see British Museum Satires No. 14175]--. So now is the time before this most surprisingest exhibition closes. Blow the trumpet Denny--Valk up Ladies and Gemmen-- Vy dont you blow Broom?' The Queen, very décolletée, with an over-dress displaying frilled and spotted drawers or trousers, wears a barn-stormer's crown with towering peacocks' feathers. At her feet is a notice: 'Juggling taught in all its branches'. At the feet of the beefeaters: 'Books of the travels of this wonderfull Phenomenon to be had within'. Their booth is garlanded with fairy lights and surmounted by a cap of Liberty. In the background on left and right are other attractions of the fair. A beefeater with 'G.R' on his breast blows his trumpet outside a booth flying a Union Jack, and inscribed 'Here's your Works. All from Nature. No connexion with the Jugglers.' Outside it are pictorial placards, all of animals with human heads: an ass with the head of Lieut. Hownam, a creature with the head of Bergami, and an ape with the head of Wood as in British Museum Satires No. 14131. Visitors crowd towards it. Before it is a woman in a swing. On the right are two tents, one inscribed 'Good Strong Caroline Brandy', the other flying a tricolour flag inscribed 'Ale and strong liquors'. In the centre foreground stands John Bull, pointing up at the Queen, and addressing the gaping and amused spectators around him. He is a plump respectable countryman, his words engraved below the title: 'Why dang-it I tell ye that ere business be all Impositioning like--Do na g'in, I mysel war taken in tother day; but blow my wig if I ha any more to do wi that shew like.--do na g'in, It be all my eye [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14180] and Betty-Martin or my neame beant John Bull.--'"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mat Pudding and his mountebank
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 45 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Circus performers, Circuses & shows, Stages (Platforms)., Spectators, Honor guards, Trumpets, Banners, Fools' caps, Boots, Documents, Signs (Notices), Crowns, Feathers, Liberty cap, Donkeys, Swings, Show tents, and Flags
"John Bull, grotesquely stout, is pressed downwards by a large rolled document which rests on his head inscribed 'Revision 3000 Resolutions Simplefication'. This roll is pressed down by three persons who rest their hands on it, their legs in the air, as if jumping to increase the pressure which has already so much compressed John Bull, concertina-fashion, that his arms reach the ground, and his contour is quasi-rectangular. The central figure is Pitt, saying, "Come, boys, since they say we have well begun, Let's bear hard till the whole's comprest in one". The other two are probably Rose and Steele, the Treasury Secretaries. The words 'Stamps' and 'Incidents' are inscribed on John Bull's shoulders, 'Custom' and 'Excise' (crossing each other) on his body."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified tentatively in British Museum catalog., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the speech of George III on January 23, 1787 -- Variety of taxes -- Tax reforms -- Consolidation of duties bill, February 26, 1778 -- Treasury secretary., and Partial watermark on left edge.
Publisher:
Pub'd for the proprietor, by E. Macklew, No. 9, Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Rose, George, 1744-1818, and Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823
Congratulations for Johon Bull and Congratulations for John Bull
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798, v. 3., Numbered 'No. III' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Finance: 1798 -- Voluntary contributions., and Watermark: Grapes (partially trimmed).
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Money, and Obesity
Doctor Sangrado relieving John Bull of the yellow fever
Description:
Title from item., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: who has just fitted up his exhibition in an entire novel stile [sic], admittance one shilling. NB Folios lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: budget debate, 23 February 1795 -- Artisans -- Money -- Medical procedures -- Kettles., Watermark: Strasburg lily with intials GR below., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby 25, 1795, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Windham, William, 1750-1810, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Fireplaces, and Wigs
Title from item., Reduced copy of a print by Isaac Cruikshank under the same title, published by S. W. Fores in 1795., Publication information extrapolated from the place and date of publication of the periodical for which the plate was etched., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1800, v. 5., p. 346., Numbered 'No. XI' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Debates: budget debate, 23 February 1795 -- Artisans -- Money., and Mounted.
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809, and Windham, William, 1750-1810
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Fireplaces, Kettles, Wigs, and Medical procedures & techniques
"Ministers, horribly griped, sit on a vast Green Bag (see British Museum Satires No. 13735), trying to hatch eggs. The King hits the kneeling Bloomfield in the face, saying 'They shall hatch by G--d!' John Bull and a soldier (see British Museum Satires No. 13850) watch derisively. Behind him is the Pavilion."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sitting committee and Shitting committee
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "i" in "sitting" is formed from the letter "h" with its left side scored through, suggesting the word "shitting"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Plat [sic] 7"--Upper left corner., and Mounted on page 25 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1820 by Benbow, corner of St. Clements Church Yard, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Bishops, Military officers, Bags, Defecation, and Soldiers
Authors of the Catholic Reform Bill, Wellington and Peel are dressed in tall conical caps and tied to the back of chair carried by Eldon. A fat bishop, probably Howley, walks behind, carrying the legs of the chair, as the head of Cumberland with gapping mouth appears behind him. A fat John Bull character looks on the scene from the left foreground. The group is met on the right by an angry Irish ragamuffin wearing a barrister's wig and waving his fist and a shillelagh, suggesting that he is O'Connell
Alternative Title:
Don't you remember the fifth of November
Description:
Title etched below image., Lower right corner, device of Paul Pry, pseudonym of William Heath : a figure with hat and cane., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Political & other caricatuers [sic] daily pub.
Publisher:
Pub by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Howley, William, 1766-1848, O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, Politics and government, and John Bull (Symbolic character)
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A procession of characters riding fantastic velocipedes (see British Museum Satires No. 13399), in profile to the right, each an isolated figure, arranged in two rows divided by a horizontal line. Each machine is an appropriate object mounted on two wheels. [1] 'The Aldermans Hobby'. Fat, drink-blotched, and with gouty legs, he rides a turtle. [2] 'The Sailors Hobby'. He vigorously rides an anchor, despite a wooden leg. He has a pugnacious expression, and a long pigtail. [3] 'The Jews Hobby'. He has a beard and rides a bag of 'Old Clothes'. [4] 'The Doctors Hobby'. A very thin apothecary, a medicine-bottle in his pocket, rides a 'Mortar', using the pestle as a steering-rod. [5] 'The Ireishmans Hobby'. A peasant, with one shoe and stocking, a straw rope twisted round the other leg, rides a bull, holding it by the horns. Cf. (e.g.) British Museum Satires No. 5605, by Gillray. [6] 'John Bulls Hobby'. A jovial and paunchy fellow rides a huge round of beef, inscribed 'Rump of Beef 4p. lb.', the dish being on rollers. He holds up a tankard of 'Porter' and knife in his right hand, sticking a fork into the meat. [7] 'The Welchmans Hobby'. He rides a goat whose legs are planted on two disks inscribed 'Cheese'; he has a goat-like profile and in his hat is a leek. [8] 'The Real Dandy Hobby'. A dandy strides along on a correctly drawn machine. He wears breeches, full in the seat, with spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Everyone his hobby
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "346" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., and Leaf 57 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pub. Ap. 24th, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Jews, Bicycles & tricycles, City council members, Ethnic stereotypes, Hobbyists, Military uniforms, British, Physicians, Dandies, and Sailors