Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 October 1834]
Call Number:
834.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled. In the upper left and reading across, "Daddy Longlegs" shows a very think, long-legged man poised to smash the insect on his wall. To the right, on top "The itinerant chanceller" is a scene with a cricketer about to bat a large ball and below a scene with men wearing Dutch-style hats watch as one of the group takes a small ball and readies to bowl down a stand of large, egg-shaped objects. On the far right of the first row, a portly man greets a thin, frail man with wings as ears that extend above his hat, wearing glasses and leaning on a cane. The larger man says "Bless my soul Mr. Pidgeonwidgen! How do ye do. Well now, you look uncommon well considering your Ears." On the second row left, “Follow my leader”, the top image shows a thin man laboring up a hill as he pulls a very large man seated and reading at ease in the a four-wheeled chair. Below three men carrying guns stand up to their necks in a river having followed a taller man in a top hat calmly walking ahead. The speech balloon above their heads reads, “Didn't I tell ye it was only up to the middle.” The first smaller man replies, “The middle indeed. Why we are up to our necks d'ye think our legs are stilts like yours.” In the middle of the second row, A very thin man in Scotish costume (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux?) striding vigorously using a broom as a walking stick and burdened with boxes and bags on his back and waist, labelled “Freedoms of Scotch Towns”, “Broken Vituals the remnants of the Edinburgh Gorge.”, and “Proceeds of the Penny Mag.” The caption below reads, “I flatter myself I've made a tolerable good job by my “Starring it” with Old Grey in the North. Sold all my numbers of the Penny Mag. and well puff'd it thro' applause with the ex-premier. Received some score of Burgesses, Freedoms, and Invitations to as many dinners where I blew my own trumpet & obtain'd plenty of orders from our 'Usefull Knowledge Society', now “woe” to the unstamn'd when I get home.” The last image in row two, on the right, is un-captioned and shows a devil riding behind a horseman bolting across an evening sky. Below two men peak through tall grass and observe an otter and The third row contains a single image captioned “Something like a chase” which shows horsemen following their hounds across a field and over a fence, many of whom have fallen their horses or encountered other types of accidents and falls. In the distance is a small sign indicating that they rode from Wombell's. In the last row, on the left, two men, one with a gun with a barrel turned at 90 degrees, peak out from around the corner of a building, looking at a rooster and some chickens. The caption reads, “Paddy's gun, warranted to shoot around the corner.” The first man says, “Put ye spalpeen, wat are you after, if you let it off, by my soul it'll blow ye to de Divil.” To which the man with the gun replies, “Ock, come out now and hav'nt I made it into a 'Patent Cylindrical Twisted Barrel Gun' and dont day shoot de best, ye Murphy digger.” In the middle of the bottom row, is an image of a constable apprehending a frightened chimney sweep, with the caption “Reforming the Clergy”. The constable says, “Come along, you've hacted contrary to the Hact of Parlyment in crying out “Sweep”. There's 40 bob for ye or else a month in Quad." To which the sweep replies, “Oh criky, don't grab me this here vunce and I'll no not never cry Sweep agin. Vot's us poor flue-sakers to do if as how ve don't cry summut all for to let the people know or how ve are in the streets.” Two other laborers, another sweep and a swag man, in the distance on the right and left, observe “Does any lady or Gemmen's flue pipe vont expurgating.” The other says, “The law have mercy on us.” The third and final image at the end of the fourth row has the caption “A Crack Shot” with an image of a man with a caricatured face and a top hat, holding a gun in his hands and an umbrella between his legs as he stands before a door, the top half of which is open; a bird in a cage hangs to the side of the door. The speech balloon above his head reads, “There's one at last, the only chance of a shy I've had to day. There's nobody here, he, he, Now if I don't flummox ye my pink, say my mother has'nt sold her mangle
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left corner., Series title and number at top of sheet., "6d, plain. 1s/ cold."--Upper right above design., and Dated below series title at top of sheet: October 1st, 1834. Continued every fortnight.
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, and sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, Wiseheart, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
The convicted traitor Robert Watt sits on an open sled being pulled by a horse through a city square. A man in a hat, perhaps the executioner, sits across from him holding an axe. Soldiers escort the sled through the crowd. In the distance on the right, a man stands on a platform outside the upper floor of a building and readies a noose
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: Exshaw's Gentleman's and London magazine. Dublin : J. Exshaw, October 1794., and Sheet mutilated along bottom edge with slight loss of text.
Publisher:
J. Exshaw
Subject (Geographic):
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Watt, Robert, -1794.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Executions, Plazas, and Sleds & sleighs
Title from item., Publication date based on that of companion print: Spiritual Lovers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom., Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: 'Tis an adage most true without doubt ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, not recorded in Grego or British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Kissing.
Title from item., Dated suggested by respository based on costume., and Temporary local subject terms: Curtains -- Carpets -- Urn -- Mirrors -- Tailor -- Scissors.
In a fashionable parlor, two well-dressed couples entertain each other. On the right a gentleman plays the violin as his companion sings; she holds sheet music in her hand as she faces the fireplace, her back to the viewer. The violinist stands on a sheet of paper on which is written "The downfall of Paris." Above the fireplace, over a mantel with piles of books, including a volume with Code Napoleon written on its spine, is a portrait of "Napoleon le-Grand" and on either side, landscape views of Elba and St. Helena. On the left an effeminate soldier with a medal that reads "Jena" (a reference to the 1806 victory?) offers a young lady plates of fruit and cookies. The side table beside them is laiddened with fruit, flowers, liquor, and cookies. A fluffy, white dog barks at her feet. Pairs of Cupids with arrows and with laurel wreaths decorate the wallpaper
Alternative Title:
French fireside
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Manuscript "8" in upper center of plate.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Le Petit, 20 Capel St., Dublin
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dogs, Fireplaces, Floor coverings, Mantels, Parlors, Singing, and Violins
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from street address., On the floor is a note saying: I purge I bleed I sweat em; Then if they Die I let em., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. by McCleary, 32, Nassau Street
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Death, Death (Personification)., Dead persons, Physicians, Undertakers, Skeletons, Coffins, Medicines, and Chamber pots
Copy of the print after a self-portrait after the painting in the Tate Gallery (London); the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette. Lettered, on the palette 'The Line of Beauty', and below image, Gulielmus Hogarth
Alternative Title:
Alternative form of title
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below print on secondary mount: An Irish copy of the first print in the first volume of this [col?]lection., and On page 234 in volume 3.
"Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, whole length, standing to right, looking to front, his right hand on his hip, holding plumed hat in the left, over a chair; wearing Garter robes and chain with George; sword and mace on cloth embroidered with coat of arms at left, fluted column and curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower left corner of plate., Dedication etched beneath title: To His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth, King of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c. this engraving is humbly dedicated by His Majesty's faithful and devoted subject, Andrew Robertson., and Bound in opposite page 634 (leaf numbered '78' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published 1st Feby. 1827, by Messrs. Colnaghi Son & Co., Pall Mall East, London; R. Milliken & J. Allen, Dublin
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britian.
Subject (Name):
Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,
Subject (Topic):
Governors, British, Politicians, Robes, and Ceremonial maces