"Lord Grantham, in military uniform, wielding the club of Hercules, inscribed 'L G his cane', stands with legs astride, threatening Wooler (left), a tiny 'Black Dwarf, as in British Museum Satires No. 12892, who registers extreme rage or terror. Grantham has enormous moustaches, which fly upwards on each side of his head. A lion's skin hangs from his shoulders, with a solid head which snarls savagely. He wears a bell-shaped shako, long tight trousers strapped under boots, and immense spurs. His left arm, terminating in a huge fist, is extended horizontally. On the left a knock-kneed yokel with bristling moustaches and wearing the cap of a Death's Head hussar, grins in oafish delight, saying, "Well done Col.! well done our side!!! my Zoul! what Honnor this will bring upon our Corpse!!! and if any more Dwarfs or Devils attack's our Regemunt Lord Grant'them all the zame fate, I zay!!" Wooler stands among piles of his paper, 'Black Dwarf', some of which have various inscriptions: 'Strictures on the York Hussars'; 'York you are not wanted'; 'The Devil to Pay'; 'a Lame Story to the Yellow Bonze at Japan'; 'universal Suffrage'; and (adapting 'As You Like It'), 'Then a Soldier, full of Strong Oaths & bearded like the Pard Jealous in Honor Sudden & quick in quarrel seeking the bubble Reputation Ev'n in the printing office'. He wears an ink-pot for hat, with three large pen-feathers; at his waist is a tricolour cockade. On the wall behind him is a framed picture of 'The Yellow Bonze', a grotesque imp, squatting with outspread fingers, and registering surprise. Below is a broadside headed by figures hanging from a gallows."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lord G- & the printers devil and Lord Grantham & the printers devil
Description:
Title etched below image., "Lord Grantham" written in ink by a contemporary hand., and Mounted to: 22 x 26.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
De Grey, Thomas Philip De Grey, Earl, 1781-1859 and Wooler, T. J. 1786?-1853 (Thomas Jonathan),
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Clubs (Weapons), Dwarfs, and Hides & skins
"A similar scene to BM Satires 14721, with awkward, exhibitionist, and dandified riders in place of carriages; one pedestrian, a lady, is in the foreground (right). Legs are thrust forward, toes turned out, down, or up. A man gallops holding one rein and an eye-glass with studied negligence, his left hand in his trouser pocket. Beside him is a lady, turning in her saddle to look through an eye-glass; a long green veil streams from her bell-shaped top-hat. A horse falls on its head, the falling man is taking snuff. Two dogs fight in the foreground. There are heavy clouds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Frontispiece from 'Metropolitan Grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its Vicinity', 1812. A crowded street scene, with the corner of a tripe-butcher's on the right: 'Gilbert. Gall Tripem[an]', a lean-to shop, in which the butcher bargains over sheeps' trotters and offal with an elderly woman. Outside this is a pavement along which a little boy bowls a hoop between the legs of an elderly lady on the extreme right who totters on high-heeled shoes, having dropped a lap-dog from her muff. A little chimney-sweep is much amused. Above the butcher's a woman at a window empties a pan: the contents splash on to the pent-house roof and pour through a spout over the white stockings of a fashionably dressed passer-by who registers horror, holding up an eyeglass. The stream splashes the unconscious woman who chaffers with the tripe-man. A street-lamp projecting from the corner of the house is broken. Over the uneven cobbles an old woman pushes a barrow of cat's-meat, shrieking her wares; two dogs bark at the barrow, a cat miaows. Near her stands a ragged, bare-legged man, with grievously twisted and misshapen legs (showing the effects of rickets); he sells 'The Last Dying Sp[eech] . . .', with a print of bodies on a gibbet, shouting from a cavernous mouth in a subhuman face. Behind him a jovial crossing-sweeper plies his broom. On the left is a caricature shop, the window-panes filled with prints, among which one of 'the Hottentot Venus', Saartjie Baartman, see No. 11577, &c., is conspicuous. There are also large comic heads. A fashionably dressed woman leaves the shop, holding her nose (assailed by the cat's-meat). Four men gaze at the window; one is a countryman whose pocket is being picked. Heavy flower-pots are about to fall on their heads from a projecting ledge. A woman leans from a first-floor window trying vainly to stop the fall, and letting her watering-pot discharge its contents on the still unconscious window-gazers. On the wall is the disk of the 'Sun' Fire Office, with the date '1812'. The next house is a small gin-shop with a bunch of grapes for its sign and the inscription '. . Arsnic--Best Cordial Gin'. Three dram-drinkers stand at the door. The last house, a corner one, is dilapidated and shored up with a beam. The ground floor belongs to 'D. Dip Tallow Chandler'; against the window is a stall or bulk. The top floor is that of 'Ling--Dyer &c'; a pole projects from a window with dyed garments and a length of material hanging out to dry. On the corner of the house is the notice: 'F P 20 Ft'. In the background the dome of St. Paul's rises above the roofs of houses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date based on information from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. G. Smeeton, 139 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah,
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, People with disabilities, and Window displays
Title from caption below image., Publisher from series title page on verso of plate I., and One of eight plates of a series entitled: The bottle : in eight plates / by George Cruikshank.
"The mother sits beside an open work-table, receiving the children whom a black footman ushers in, looking round the door and grinning broadly. The eldest girl has rushed into her mother's arms; a little boy stands beside her, gleefully welcoming a younger girl who is running forward. The eldest boy, on whom his mother's eyes are fixed, advances nonchalantly, blowing a trumpet. A cockatoo screeches on its perch. There are two pictures: Harvest Home and Happy Return, a woman at her cottage door greeting a youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Commencment of the holidays and Commencement of the holidays
Description:
Title from caption below image., Number "3" in "1835" in imprint has been erased and replaced with number "2" written in ms., Reissue of no. 15188 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published 1826 by S. Knights., Temporary local subject terms: Holidays -- Black servants -- Parlors -- Families -- Pictures amplify subjects -- Parrots -- Joy -- Horns., and Watermark: 1834.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 18[2]5, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Children, Cockatoos, Dogs, and Sewing equipment & supplies
"Three fashionable dandies (see No. 13029) in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutenist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies."-- British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio
Description:
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. July 15, 1819 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, and Parlors
Print shows three fashionable dandies in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutanist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio and Hummingbirds, or, A dandy trio
Description:
Title etched below image., After a design by amateur caricaturist John Sheringham; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with G. Humphrey's original imprint replaced. For an earlier state, see no. 13446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., A reissue of a print originally published 15 July 1819 by G. Humphrey. This later state was included in Thomas McLean's 1835 collective reissue of several Cruikshank etchings entitled "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fashion, Clothing and dress, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, Music, Parlors, and Poodles
"The scene is a Drawing-room in the court sense held at the Queen's House (now Buckingham Palace): the men wear court-suits with gold lace and bag-wigs or uniform; above the doorway appears the lower part of a portrait of the Queen enthroned, with one foot on a footstool. On the right is a portrait of the Prince Regent in hussar uniform standing by a charger. In the doorway, which is the centre of the design, an enormously obese man is jammed against an equally obese woman, their paunches dovetailing; she stands on one toe on his gouty foot. Behind them is the inner room, where heads are seen crammed together. In the foreground an officer steps on a lady's train (left) slitting her gown. A hussar officer (right), amused at the struggle in the doorway, drives his sabre against a much-distressed lady. He has a moustache, and is perhaps a German in attendance on the Prince of Hesse-Homburg. Behind is another officer, also with a moustache (cf. No. 13029). On the floor lie fans, a shoe-buckle, the bag from a wig, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 6th, 1818 by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's St.