"The Knave of Clubs, 'Pam', sits in state in a ramshackle attic, one foot resting regally on a footstool. He is faint-hearted and melancholy and turns to a dapper little man (Sir Walter Stirling) at his right hand, who is supported by the Devil. He says: "I'm going to Hastings give me some Sterling No Tokens." Stirling, who holds an open book and is prompted by the Devil, says: "Let Us Pray," with a cynical smile. The Devil says: "Honestly if you Can?!!--but get Money." A hideous old woman, grotesque and ragged, offers him a glass, saying, "Try if Brandy won't save you." Behind the Devil, and on the extreme left, stands a burlesqued, knock-kneed lawyer, closing one eye in a cynical grimace; he holds a large pen and a paper headed 'The Last Will & Testement [sic] of Pam'. The room has the signs of squalor characteristic of the period: bricks showing through broken plaster, raftered roof, check bed-curtains, a broken chair, with broken jug and plate on the floor. Ragged stockings and a night-cap, &c. hang from a string across the fireplace (right), and on the mantelshelf are a candle in a bottle, a saucepan, medicine-bottle, teapot, and cup. Above it are a gallows broadside, and a print of a seated demon holding a small pair of scales."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pam be civil
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: British politics -- Law -- Games.
Publisher:
Published September 1812 by Y.Z. & sold by Clinch, Princes Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Stirling, Walter, 1758-1832 and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Title from caption below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, Pets, and Single women
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print first published as the heading to a broadside entitled "Recipe for corns". For an earlier state published 4 December 1822 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women