"A disorderly mass of pedestrians fills the pavement outside the White Horse in Piccadilly, the street slanting in perspective from left to right. The pillared porch of the hotel is flanked by large curved windows, above which is the inscription 'Coffee House & Hotel'. The porch is inscribed 'Hatchetts', above it, against the wall, is the (pictorial) sign of a white horse, inscribed: 'Coaches & waggons to all parts of the kingdom'. Above the area railings, which are hidden by the crowd, is a placard (over the entrance to the basement): 'White Horse cellar coaches to all part[s]'. In the foreground (right) a coach and pair with outside passengers is driven recklessly (right to left) by a driver in a many-caped coat; an angry man sprawls by the horses' hoofs, another escapes to the right. A box-like coach or wagon facing in the opposite direction is on the off-side of the first; a man pushes a fat woman in at the back, while two outside passengers are about to fall from the roof, which is open. It is inscribed 'T[O] . . . MERS . . . TURNHAM' [? To Amersham by Turnham Green]. At the edge of the pavement stands a tough-looking coach-tout pointing out the Amersham wagon to an oafish-looking and would-be fashionable countryman whose pocket is being picked by a little Jewish boy; a Jewish woman with a basket of fruit slung from her neck deftly screens him. A raffish tout dressed as a coachman assails alarmed pedestrians with violent gestures. A stout John Bull pushes violently past a Jewish fruit-seller, spilling the fruit, while the Jew takes a watch from his fob. A boy diving for the falling fruit upsets a man carrying on his head and porter's knot a large corded chest. A little chimney-sweep with twisted shin-bones quizzes an amused negro servant, who holds a band-box, and is smartly dressed, but wears an apron. Facing the coaches stands a newsboy, holding up his papers to the passengers. He holds his horn; in his hat is a placard: 'Great News from St Hel[ena]'. Below, where the crowd is thickest in front of the hotel porch, men fight with fists. Two dandies stand under the porch, above the mêlée."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Reprint. Originally published by George Humphrey, 29 December 1818.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Piccadilly (London, England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Crowds, Dandies, Dogs, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.0 x 26.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons.
"An elderly woman, lean, old-fashioned, and spinsterish, sits on a settee, shrieking and contorted with pain. A rope is wound tightly round her waist, the ends held by vicious little demons (left and right), who tug with all their might. Four others attack her with spear, trident, needle, and knife. On the wall (right) is a picture of a fat, disreputable-looking woman drinking, bottle in hand, by a bedroom fire."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor., Reissue, with new imprint statement etched above the old one that has been mostly burnished out. For an earlier state published 12 February 1819 by G. Humphrey, see no. 13438 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Year "1835" in imprint has been scored through but is still legible., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Stomach aches, Demons, Devil, Sofas, Spears, and Ropes
"A dancing-master in profile to the left, playing his kit, faces a little girl, who stands firmly, her feet in the first position, heels back to back, toes pointing almost at r. angles with her profile. His feet are also in the first position, as are those of a little boy in the doorway (right), one hand on the handle, bowing, or stooping, low. The room is boarded and bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
1st Position and First position
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., A symbol or monogram comprised of an elaborate double 'X' precedes Cruikshank's signature., and Publication date erased from sheet.
"The dancing-master plays his kit and dances, while a very small boy in hat and wide trousers dances a hornpipe, right arm above his head, a cane under his left arm. A tiny girl stands (right) distressed at her position: she holds a backboard against her shoulders, her heels are together, feet in a straight line, the first position, as in No. 14436."---British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sailors hornpipe
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date erase from sheet. Date from British Museum catalogue., and Publication date erased from sheet.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: It's devotees destroy themselves, it's progress is marked with desolation, misery and crime., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A man, thin, elderly, and bald, leans back despairingly in an arm-chair by the fire, grimacing with upturned eyes, and holding a (useless) medicine-bottle. He is tormented by six little demons; one bores into his skull with an auger, another with a bit. A third raises a mallet to strike a wedge into the skull. One sits on his victim's shoulder, holding a music-book and bawling into his ear, another blows a trumpet against his cheek. A sixth runs up his arm to bring a red-hot poker into action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Headache
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1819 by G. Humphrey, see no. 13439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Headache, Devil, Demons, Fireplaces, and Hand tools
"A section of the deck of a small sailing vessel, seen from outside; cockneyfied passengers, depicted with a sailor's contempt, hang over the rail in misery or walk on deck. The helmsman (left) stands impassively in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor tilted diagonally., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 5 June 1824 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].