A visual pun on the legal profession: The conveyancer is depicted as a pickpocket, the solicitor as a prostitute, and bar practice as a bartender
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Print numbered in ms. near upper edge of sheet: 264.
Publisher:
Published for the propietor by James Bulcock, 17 Park Place, Chelsea
Title from heading above image., Imprint statement inscribed upside down and reversed on print., Caption below image: "You wish for a son Madam." Dear me how did you know that?, and Temporary local subject terms: Pregant women -- Scholars -- Books -- Scientific specimens -- Heaters -- Studies.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
Oct. 22nd, 1835.
Call Number:
836.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Almanac for the hat or bonnet
Description:
Title from heading above image., Publication statement continues: Now publishing the original Comic almanac, price 3d also Every body's album. The political reflector ..., and Text within image: The hat or bonnet almanac 1836.
Publisher:
Printed & pubd. by T. Dawson, No. 11 Paternoster Row and Tate, 54 Leicester Sqre
A red-nosed 'Cit' sits on a rock along a small waterfall on a stream outside a cottage, fishing. He grins as he holds up a fish that he has caught, the caption below conveying his thought: "Do you call that nothing?" The joke is that his bucket of fish that hangs off a tree branch next to him has been overturned and all the rest of the fish he has caught spill back into the stream
Visual puns on doctors and medical terminology: Cure for a hair lip, A real quack, A strong asperient ...
Description:
Title from heading above design., Publication date from local card catalog record., Printmaker extrapolated from other prints in the series. Cf. Beards., A.C. or A. Crowquill, for a time the joint pseudonym of Charles Robert Forrester and Alfred Henry Forrester; later used by Alfred Henry Forrester alone., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., No. 7 in a series of at least seven prints published by Smith, Elder & Co., and Temporary local subject terms: Doctors -- Medicines -- Puns.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1835?]
Call Number:
835.00.00.206
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading above design., Publication date from local card catalog record., Lithographer extrapolated from similar prints. Cf. Frontispiece to the Sporting magazine., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., and The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and artist and printmaker signatures and some loss to design.
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentotts, pickpockets, bishops, hunters, etc. Images are loosely arranged in three columns with the following headings at top (left to right): Hints to singers; A few favorite songs &c. &c.; Musical term's.
Description:
Title from text at top of design., "Price twopence"--Following publisher's statement and preceeding publication date in imprint., 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26.8 x 19 cm., Printed on wove paper; mounted to 34 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Titles from captions above images., Publication date from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and printmaker signature., and Sheet trimmed within design.
