Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 30 October 1841]
Call Number:
841.10.30.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wellington (as Constable of the Tower of London) holds a pistol to the head of John Bull, as Henry Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer) harangues Bull from the other side, forcing John to reach into his pockets to pay for the rebuilding of the Tower of London, seen burning in the background
Description:
Title from item., Signed with the initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., Sheet trimmed with partial loss of printed border., Wood engraving with letterpress text., "Price 1d. plain."--Upper right corner., and Mounted to: 57 x 38 cm. With a fragment of a burnt document from the 30 October fire at the Tower of London that destroyed the Grand Armoury. With a note saying that it had been recovered on 6 November. The fragment contains references to Viscount Townsherd (Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in the Greenville Ministry in 1763), Sir Charles Frederick (1709-1785), and James Syme are among the legible names.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Goulburn, Henry, 1784-1856, Tower of London (London, England),, and Tower of London (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Fires and fire prevention, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Handguns, and Fires
A view of the Stock Exchange, filled with members; the wall-clock points to 1:30. A few sticks and fists are raised above the crowd, and a hat flies up. In the foreground a horse, led in by two members, is incited by others to kick, a practical joke on its owner. Members in the foreground are after, or vaguely resemble, City portraits by Dighton. ... On the right, Wright stands with raised hand, amused at the horse. Montefiore in profile to the right, faces Hibers(?). Others are mentioned, including Bish. Among the crowd a bearded Jew is consipicuous. On a raised platform at each side stands a beadle
Alternative Title:
Billy White's poney made a member of the stock exchange and Billy White's pony made a member of the stock exchange
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched below image., Approximations of Chinese characters precede each line of text., Imprint statement erased from sheet. Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Chinese man -- Dancing -- Stereotypes., Imprint statement erased from sheet., and Print numbered in pencil in upper right corner: 6.
"A phrenologist, De Ville, in his consulting room, feels the forehead of a loutish gaping youth who kneels on a cushion at his feet. Behind the boy stands his stupid-looking mother, grinning with delight at her son. De Ville, who wears plain old-fashioned dress, has a grotesquely shaped skull fringed with scanty hair; his left hand rests on an open book on his table on which is a skull, numbered phrenologically and resting on a paper: Thurtell [murderer] shown to be Craniologically an Excellent Character. Behind him stands an assistant with a porcine profile writing in a note-book: Very large Wit N° 32. A large book-case covers much of the wall (right). There are also portrait heads illustrating grotesque misshapen features, and a bust on a pedestal with a satyr-like profile."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of quoted text below title: "Pores o'er the cranial map with learned eyes, Each rising hill and bumpy knoll descries, Here secret fires, and there deep mines of sense, His touch detects beneath each prominence.", and For an earlier state before aquatint added, see no. 15157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 24th, 1826, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Strt., London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
De Ville, J. and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Costume, Caricatures and cartoons, Bookcases, and Muffs
A collection of prints, mostly after designs by H.W. Bunbury and engraved by: Charles Bretherton, F. Bartolozzi, T. Trotter, M. Haughton, G. Shepheard, J. Baldrey, T. Watson, P.W. Tomkins, C. Knight, and J. Bretherton. Most prints were published by W. Dickinson; other publishers include: Watson and Dickinson, J. Jones, T.R. Smith. Other artists included: C. Bretherton, Angelica Kauffmann, and B. Scarron. Many of the prints are in multiple states, including proof before letters as well as multiple impressions, colored and uncolored
Description:
Title from spine., Bound in three quarter tan calf, marble boards, with spine title in gold: Bunbury album., and Typed list with titles and page numbers inserted; cross-referenced with Horace Walpole's two volume collection of Bunbury prints.
"Satire on the public reaction to Admiral Byng's withdrawal from the defence of Minorca."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Byng triumphant
Description:
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 32 x 20 cm, on sheet 34 x 22 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Minorca (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Wesley, John, 1703-1791, and La Galissonnière, Roland Michel Barrin, marquis de, 1693-1756
Subject (Topic):
History, Gallows, Hangings (Executions), and Memorial arches
Brave soldier out witted the cowardly sailor, Brave soldier outwitted the cowardly sailor, and Byng's last effort
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '8' in upper right corner., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Greenwich Hospital., and Mounted to 18 x 20 cm.
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Second of two plates on leaf 56.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
Depicts Earls of Mansfield and Bute with Lord North, seated on a cloud with a demon, observing below them the female combatants Britannia and America with spear and tomahawk, flanked by male figures representating France and Spain
Alternative Title:
Blessed effects of family quarrels
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and America.
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Indians of North America, Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, and Colonies