Kean as Richard III, directed to the left, stands on a large volume with the word 'Shakespear' written on the top edge. Resting on his head and humped shoulders is a model of Drury Lane Theatre, a massive block, inscribed 'Whitbreads Intire.' On the roof is poised an ugly figure of Fame, blowing through a trumpet 'Puff Puff Puff', and holding behind her a second trumpet, from which issue the words 'Puff Puff P'. At the entrance to the theatre straddles a tiny Whitbread, his legs and arms projecting from a cask which forms his body; he says: "Now by St Paul the work goes bravely on" (altering Richard's words from 'this news is bad indeed'). Kean stoops, leaning on a cross-hilted sword, inscribed 'A Keen supporter'; he has misshapen bandy legs. He says: "Well, as you guess." He wears an ermine-trimmed cap encircled by a crown, slashed doublet and trunk hose, a sleeveless coat bordered with ermine and embroidered with a (Yorkist) rose, with flapped and spurred boots. (The figure, with the position of the arms altered, is a travesty of J.J. Hall's portrait of Kean interrogating Stanley on the approach of Richmond. The costume is correct.) The stage is indicated by curtains flanking the design. In the background are clouds of smoke.--Adapted from British Museum
Description:
Title from text etched below image., Complete imprint statement and dimensions supplied from British Museum impression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of characters in the publisher's name.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1814 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,, and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Title from heading above image., Numerous small designs, individually captioned: Nim rod, Ram rod, and Fishing rod; Hurting in Somerset shire; Fishing in troubled waters; A single barrel doing double duty, or Knocking down at both ends., Possibly from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from heading above image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse below image: Behold! when Mammon walks or rides or stirs, down bend the willing slaves, the curs! ..., Plate numbered "Pl. 2 No. 5" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Coachman -- Carriages -- Wealth -- Shakespeare.
Title from item., Publication date extrapolated from that of the book for which this plate was etched., Plate from: Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons ... / by James Caulfield. London : H. R. Young and T. H. Whitely,1819-1820, v. 3, opp. p. 151., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Ancient customs: marital oath.
"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].
Title from caption below design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption across top of design: Men & "gents" (who are really respectable) may now be seen smoking in the streets, even with bla'guard short clay pipes, a practice which was formerly only indulged in by common thieves, out-casts, sweeps & dust men! "Put that in your pipe & smoke it", Numerous designs on sheet, most individually captioned., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Caricatures -- Heads -- Smoking -- Mothers -- Children.
The interior of a watch-house at night. The constable in charge sits in his hooded chair (right), book and pen at his right hand, holding his long pipe, a tankard beside him. He frowns perplexedly at Tom, who stands at the bar declaiming, an angry and damaged watchman pointing to him. Jerry struggles with several watchmen, and by the door (left) a man fees a watchman
Alternative Title:
Tom and Jerry in trouble after a spree
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Plate for: Egan. P. Life in London, page 184., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 193. Revellers, some in masks, surround the supper-table, on which a clown dances, knocking against a chandelier of cut glass. A band of Pandean minstrels is in an alcove (r.), all play pan-pipes, some have also other instruments: drum, triangle, bells. Tom, as a Spanish don, sits at the head of the table between a queen and (?) Titania. Jerry, as a huntsman, leans across the table halloing and flourishing a whip. On the bench on the near side of the table are a Harlequin and a lady, a nun seated between a dustman and a fireman; on the r. is a devil. Other characters are a Jew talking to a pig-faced lady, see No. 12630, a Chinese, a sailor, a Don Quixote, prone on the floor and very ill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tom and Jerry larking at a masquerade supper at the opera house
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark. Imprint statement erased from print.
Tom and Jerry sporting their bits of blood among the pinks in Rotten Row
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Races -- Audiences -- Children -- Dogs.