Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.169
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two asses on a bare patch of ground, with the first line of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' below. The play begins with three witches in a storm deciding when to meet next ('When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won'). That there are only two asses in this parody presumably means that the dedicatee of the print, whose name is withheld, is the third
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Imprint lacking, but text "See Tregear's catalogue" beneath title suggests G.S. Tregear as publisher., Date of publication from dealer's description., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: God shield us! A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing! Midsummer night's dream.
Title, artist, and date of publication from original oil painting in Victoria and Albert Museum, museum no.: DYCE.80. and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Liston, John, 1776-1846, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.