"A front elevation of a theatre-box crammed with delighted children fills the design. In the front row are a lady and four little girls. In the middle sits the father, one small boy on his knee, an arm round another child. Eight more children fill the box. Behind them a lady chooses fruit from an old woman's basket. Two men stand behind. Over the front of the box hangs a playbill: During the Xmas Holidays--Pantomime of Harliquin--Clown by Mr G [Grimaldi]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
"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
"A Park promenade, with wind-swept fashionables. In the foreground (left) are three tiny children, almost hidden by their huge wide-brimmed straw hats, below which ankle-length drawers are seen. With them is a wasp-waisted lady also in a big flat hat, and with inflated sleeves connected by a tiny corsage. A soldier wearing a flat cap looks down on the roof of hats with astonishment. A dandy resembling one of the Crowquills in BM Satires 15156, and holding a similar cane, is arm-in-arm with a tall man draped in high-collared and tasselled cape reaching to the ground. They meet and address two ladies. A grotesquely obese woman ogles a passer-by. The new developments in costume are trousers pinched at the knee, and inflated above and below it, and for women large flat hats with flexible brims (cf. BM Satires 15017, 15059), much-defined breasts, and draped shoulder-capes tied at the back, with a general impression of swirling draperies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1825 and 6
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- French., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1826, by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Strt. St. James's
Five couples, finely dressed men and ladies at an outdoor luncheon party are stampeded by bees. Confusion is made worse by one man who falls backwards from a bench, which he tilts up, clutching the table-cloth and dragging over a bowl of punch. One of the ladies (left) has fainted and is being revived by a gentleman who pours a glass of water on her face. The dog on the right barks at the confusion
Alternative Title:
Picnic party disturbed by a swarm of bees
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to G. Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street