"The death of Chunee, a large Asian elephant, kept at the Exeter Change menagerie; to the left; a group of soldiers and others, all carrying guns; some observing and others firing on Chunee to the right; who, roaring, breaks the bars of his wooden cage; blood pouring from many wounds and soaking the floor; the keeper, in shirtsleeves, stabbing the elephant with a bayonet; smoke obscuring the scene; behind; small iron-barred cages containg an agitated lion and tiger respectively; above hutches containing monkeys, one grasping the bars."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Destruction of the furious elephant at Exeter Exchange
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Title etched below image., "Entered at Stationers Hall"--Above title., Issued with a broadside consisting of four columns of letterpress text, entitled "Interesting pariculars relating to the elephant." See Douglas., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "Price 1s. plain - 2s. coloured.", and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
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Pubd. March 6th, 1826, by J. Harrison, 56 Long Acre
Café de la Paix in all its glory and Dick Wildfire and Jenkins in a theatrical pandemonium
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Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatres -- Orchestra pits -- Tightrope dancer -- Clowns -- Audiences -- Performances.
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Published May 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins seeing "real life" in the galleries of the Palais Royal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. heading added to print above image: Life in Paris.
Publisher:
Published April 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Parisian cafes -- Musicians -- Fighting., Ms. heading added to print above image: Life in Paris., and Watermark: J Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Published Ap. 1, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Dick Wildfire and the captain promenading in the gardens of the Tuilleries
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Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Two men, elderly and grotesque, stand one on each side of a double-bass, playing it simultaneously with great vigour; one (right) is left-handed. Behind the instrument stands a violinist, holding up fiddle and bow in his right hand, giving an agonized scream and stopping his ear with his finger. In the foreground lies a large open music-book: 'Double Bass Hum strum diddle dum'. On the wall is a picture of a little chimneysweep flourishing two brushes like drum-sticks behind the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satires No. 11577), who capers along, pipe in one hand, staff in the other, her much-exaggerated posterior serving as a drum. A vase of flowers stands on a wall-bracket.'
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. June 21t 1813 by H Humphrey, St. James's Street London
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
Description:
Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Title from caption below central design., With either other drawings, some with captions including, starting with upper left: [untitled: man with a surprised look on his face]; Raw recruit; Do. dress'd; "Bird cage walk"; Do. dress'd up; An officer going to a ball; A ball going to an officer. Other untitled drawings include a profile of an officer., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper left corner: Pl. 3, and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication information from series title page on verso of plate I., and One of eight plates of a series entitled: The drunkard's children : a sequel to The bottle. In eight plates / by George Cruikshank.
"An exhibition in the 'Great Room' of the Horticultural Society, containing portraits of officials and caricatures of spectators; the exhibits embody political and other allusions. The three officials command the room from seats at a raised table, each with a sloping desk. The chairman, hammer in hand, sits between the Secretary and Assistant Secretary. His desk is inscribed: A most respectable Cauliflower always in order -. He is John Elliot, F.R.S. (1764-1829, Treasurer, and one of four Vice-Presidents; he often presided). On his right Joseph Sabine (1770-1837, Hon. Sec. of the Society 1816-30); on his desk: The friend of Maecenas--"arvum cælumq Sabinum non cessat laudare"--Hor. Epist. On Elliot's left, John Turner, Assistant Secretary, wearing spectacles: on his desk: An highly cultivated specimen requires Glass. The exhibits are on an oblong counter against and below that of the officials, and also on a slightly lower annexe to it, having a curved front which corresponds to the horse-shoe benches facing it. Immediately below the officials are four exhibits: [1] a miniature rocky mountain or crag on a dish, with mining apparatus projecting from its summit and having berried sprigs attached to it, labelled Vapor Vincit Omnia et Omnium. Round the rock is a scroll: Comparative Declension -- Mine -- Miner -- Minus -- New Lat Gr. The berries are placarded: The New Golden Drop or Marvel of Peru--a native of No-Mans land To be bought in the City -- only -- £500 pr leaf! Cheap as dirt & production beyond beleif. [2] A few ears of corn labelled Matchless Specimen stand in a blacking-bottle inscribed Rye Coffee By Act of Parliament -- Almighty Roasters!! - H H [Henry Hunt] Radical Corn Doctor--& General Polisher of Mankind. [3] A cannon-like brass cylinder projects horizontally from the back of a kettle, its muzzle being filled with a bunch of grapes; it is fixed to a stand inscribed Perkins's New Grape House Forced by Steam NB -- Warrented [sic] not to end in Smoke. Beside it is a second bunch of grapes; a poker leans against the kettle. [4] Two small squared pieces of wood ticketed: Specimens of American Acasia NB these Trees must not be too much exposed they require warmth & thrive best in a Register. The exhibits on the projecting table are of naturalistic fruit, with one exception: a basket inscribed Keen's Seedling A Hot Bed Plant contains a plump manikin (Kean), naked except for buskins and a head-dress like a strawberry, with a spray of leaves attached to it. He holds up a grinning mask decorated with antlers. This is ticketed NB Does not thrive in America. A bunch of grapes has the inscription: a bunch of Grapes from Lady Bacchus which upon Dissection will on a Moderate Computation afford 1/2 a grape & one stone to each man of taste -- NB Beware of Drunkenness & appoplexey. Two huge pears, placed like the Green Bags of BM Satires 13735, are in a dish inscribed Sure such a Pear -- was never seen. A giant apple: "A most Prodigious Pippin" -- Byron. Two plates of apples: Sundry Specimens of forbidden Fruit NB le Meilleur de son Espéce [sic]. The spectators [Footnote: Identifications by Reid are doubtful, and it is not always clear to whom they refer: they are here given in quotation marks.] are in the foreground, some standing over the exhibits, others on or beside the green-covered benches. Each has a punning caption in the lower margin. A dandy, 'Mr. West', stands on the extreme left, holding the head of a slim cane to his mouth; he is The Pink of Fashion or Dandy-Lion [cf. BM Satires 13029]. Next him sits Alderman Cox with antlers sprouting from his bald head; he clutches an umbrella and stares through an opera-glass at 'Keen's Seedling'. He is A variety of Horn-beam -- a double bearer (an allusion to his wife's two lovers). A gouty old man, frenzied with pain and rage, shouts at a dandified supercilious-looking fellow who plants the heel of his Hessian boot on his swollen toe; they are 'Mr Rogers' and 'Mr Wilbraham': A Passionflower in full bloom and A Species of Misletoe. Seated on the front bench in back view is a vast, shapeless, and plainly dressed woman, with a child, a small replica of herself, seated beside her; each has placed next her on the seat a flat broad-brimmed straw hat. They are A Bulb from Holland with Offset. A stout man fingers fruit, furtively stuffing a capacious pocket; he is A Monstrous Medler in full bearing ('Mr Richard Salisbury'). A dandy, out at elbows and with patched trousers, stands aggressively in back view: A Sprig of Nobility running to seed -mem-while in this state not to be trusted out of doors-if kept under lock & key it will receive the benefit of the Act [for the relief of debtors] ('Mr. Motheaux', i.e. John Motteux, d. 1843, a Vice-President of the Society, and very rich). On the seat behind him are two open books: Hortl Transtns Letters from Corresponding Mr-Mustard & Cress how to choose the seed-Essay on a Radish with highly finished Engravings. Another volume of the same: . . . On the Best mode of planting a-Pip &c. A grotesquely tall cavalry officer stands in profile to the left: A Scarlet Runner ('Captain Maxwell'), (? identification intended for the naval officer), more convincingly identified by E. Hawkins as Captain Scarlett (1799-1871). An ugly scowling fellow stands in profile to the left, with folded arms, grasping a stick with a knob carved in a portrait-head of himself: An English Crab-a Native of this Country. He is 'Dr Henderson', i.e. Alexander Henderson, M.D., 1780-1863, a Vice-President of the Society. Behind him stands a naval officer with an empty right sleeve, a patch of sticking-plaster on his forehead, and a fixed smile: Heart of Oak-with its timber lopp'd-little cultivated at present the old plants vegetate in the background. Identified by E. Hawkins as Murray Maxwell (see BM Satires 12999) whom he resembles apart from the sleeve; by Reid (improbably) as 'Lord Verulam'. He may stand for the brave but neglected naval officer, with attributes both of Nelson and Maxwell. On the extreme right a brandy-faced undergraduate with a gold-tasselled cap bestrides a bench as if on a horse, hands placed as if holding whip and reins: Hortus Cantab- propagated at Newmarket ('Mr Labouchere'; ? Henry Labouchere, 1798-1869, an Oxonian). On the pilastered wall are three pictures and a portrait bust: [1] A large picture of a burly man wearing a loin-cloth only, linked to three naked children by a root which they all gnaw. This is An Irish Potatoe Plant with young ones dressed in their Jackets after the fashion of the Country. [2] The portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, still belonging to the Society, realistically copied, with the title Hortus Siccus-The Flower of the Flock. [3] A bust of George IV as a Roman Emperor, resembling the Coriolanus of BM Satires 13677: Penny Royal- used for various purposes raised by slips-offsets &c-vide Dictiony. (This bust of the then Regent (as patron of the Society) was commissioned from Goblet for £12). [4] A portrait of a pregnant woman (Lady Ann Monson) standing in a garden, inscribed, Arethusa Bulbosa-a Species of Egg Plant-hatches once a Year & bears fruit in all Climates--Introduced by Dr Fothergill A. 1778, as appears from Miss Lee -- daughter of a nursery-man -- it grows wild occasionally -- reports speak of a specimen presented to Society Anno 1 & cultivated for amusement, by one Adam. Perhaps a portrait belonging to the Society is burlesqued."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Imprint from mss. note. See Lewis Walpole Library 826.01.01.01.2+., Later state as described in the British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: National stereotypes -- Irish -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Plants -- Dandies.