- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 September 1797]
- Call Number:
- 797.09.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stage-coachman (left) holds open the door of his coach, showing that it is overcrowded with five fat passengers. He speaks to a fat woman who stands in profile to the right, holding a fan, a dog tucked under her left arm. A flagged pavement and cobbled roadway show that they are in a London street. Beneath the title is engraved: '"Just room for one Madam," - "Vell I wow I have run all the way like a Lamp-lighter, till I am all over in such a Heat you can't think."'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library., Plate numbered '198' in lower right corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., and One line of text below title: Just room for one Madam, -- vel [sic] I vow I have run all theway like a lamp-lighter ...
- Publisher:
- Published 1st September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Obesity, Streets, Travelers, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Light summer travelling, only six inside. Children half price [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 January 1798?]
- Call Number:
- 798.01.06.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Ode to Beauty'. Beside her sits a dog clipped in the French manner. The others stand facing her, one closing her eyes and clasping her hands, the other, who holds a fan, leers at her companion. These two wear nosegays. All have high-waisted dress with sashes. The reader wears a straw hat tied on with a scarf. Behind her is a tree on whose trunk letters are carved: 'W' and 'I C' (for the artists). In the background (left) is the corner of a house inscribed 'Young Ladies Genteely Boarded & Educated' by A Bull
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication date from manuscript date added in contemporary hand in lower right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later state, with artist's and printmaker's names partially erased from plate, and without imprint. Cf .No. 8749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Companion print to: Young Gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Boarding schools, Dogs, Girls, Jewelry, Older people, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Young ladies [graphic]