Title from text below image., Date of publication based on date of The Maine Law (or "Maine Liquor Law"), which was passed on 2 June 1851., Text below title: Grand Papa. "But for seventy years, my child, I have found the moderate use of the good things of this life has done me good." Young hopeful teeotaller. "All a mistake Granpa', total abstinence is the thing. Look at me! I've not tasted wine or beer for years!", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 49 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Girls, Clocks & watches, Grandparents, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
Title from caption below images., Numerous small designs divided into two groups by a horizontal line, the six designs towards the bottom having individual captions etched below., Text above designs on bottom part of plate: These six subjects are from Kaulbach's designs illustrating Goethe's fable of "Reynard the fox.", Text among designs on top part of plate: Copied by permission of H. Ploucquet, preparator to the Royal Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Text below image: This is all I have ma'm. I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a foreign nobleman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Seven small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Carving of Cowper cultivating letters in his garden at Olney, he is tending his favourite the T behind is the U tree contributed by a lunatic asylum; Art manufactures sent in as pictures & rejected accordingly ...
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Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Eighth numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet, each individually captioned: Author craft manufactures sent in as specimens of typography (to advertise themselves) rejected as no space was alotted for trunk linings; Book bound by a journeyman carpenter ..., and Seventh numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet; each individually captioned: A lovely Grecian gothic arabasque, watered drawing room paper, in the style of Louis XIV from the school of design; State bedstead ..., and Numbered '6' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Proverbial parian pottery, a butter boat, illustrating the adage of there being more ways of killing a dog thank choking him with butter, rejected because there are "no dogs admitted"; "The addle" a poetical egg cup ..., and Numbered '5' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five small images on sheet, each individually captioned: The Hon. Rob Boyle, a kettle; A rabid fire-dog ..., and Numbered '4' in upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Wise saw and sword fish from Sheffield and Sandwich box
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Title from text below first design, upper left., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Nine small images on sheet, each individually captioned., Numbered '3' in upper right; in a series of at least 8 etched plates., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Nine small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Veil made by a protestant to prevent the spread of popery among the fair sex, the worker trusting if this pattern were adopted no one would hereafter take the veil; Novel-ties in fast colours ..., and Numbered '2' in the upper right, from a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Ten small images on sheet; each individually captioned: Dried grass from Hyde Park, scarce, every-day getting rarer; Genuine London fog, in the production of this well known raw article the city stands unrivalled ..., First numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from captions below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles from text below images., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles etched below images., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles from text below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Two individually captioned designs on sheet.
Two individually captioned designs on sheet showing Native Americans in London. On the left, an Native American man and woman attempt to ride bus, much to the horror of the passengers. On the right, a Native American man steadies himself by holding onto a lamppost outside the Coal Hole Tavern as two boys point and laugh at him; a policeman looks on.
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Title from captions below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles from text below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Titles etched below images., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October 1851., Two individually captioned designs on one sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from captions below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two individually captioned designs on sheet., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Four small individually captioned images surround larger central oval image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject headings: Mahomet -- French -- Priests -- Cardinals -- Pope -- Missionary Society -- Tattoos -- Religion -- Policemen.
Title from text above design., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Five small individually captioned designs on sheet: Affecting recognition; Big life guardsman surveying Prussian and Austrian with mingled astonishment and contempt ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Design consists of six small individually captioned images on sheet: A serious loss; A case of sour grapes ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Four small individually captioned images surround a larger central image: "What's in a name?"; Shocking case of starvation ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Text below title: The foreign lodgers., Six small individually captioned designs on sheet: Police constable Nubbles Z 999 is obliged to put an end to a puglistic encounter between the Emeror of R--a and and enthusisatic adherent of M. Kossuth ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Five small designs on one plate, all lacking captions., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Artist's signature appears within design., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from signboard in image., Artist from original drawings in the British Museum., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Design consists of six horizontal rows of small figures, five of the rows having titles etched within them: [The arts and manufactures of] Switzerland; The arts and manufactures of Italy; The arts and manufactures of Germany; The arts and manufactures of China; The arts and manufactures of Scotland., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image or text on right and left sides.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist from original drawings in the British Museum., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Design consists of large upper image and four rows of small figures below, three of the rows having titles etched within them: The arts and manufactures of France; The arts and manufactures of Turkey; [The arts and manufactures of] China., Text below large upper image begins: In consequence of the diversity of opinion manifested as to the most eligible site for the Great Exhibition ..., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image or text on three sides.
Title from captions below images., Date of publication based date of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Two designs, one above the other; each signed and individually captioned., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Great Exhibition, Crowds, Exhibition buildings, and Exhibitions
Title from heading above image., Signed in image on placard: '"1851" by Henry Matthew and George Cruikshank.', Lettering on banner displayed in design: Peace & goodwill to all the world. God save the Queen and Prince Albert., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from prominent text centrally loacated on print., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Caption below title: The great galss house having now been opened as far as lies in our power ..., Six numbered images on sheet, each individually captioned: Previous to the departure of all the world and his wife, Britannia 'stands a dinner to the former at the Lover's Symposium; Yankee Doodle returns to the states very crestfallen ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four designs arranged in three horizontal rows, each row having a title and descriptive text; the center row consists of two collectively titled panels
Description:
Title from letterpress captions below images., Date of publication based on running dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., and Temporary local subject terms: Drinking -- Barrels -- Crystal Place -- Fighting -- Barrels -- Corkscrews.
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: "A fair day's wages for a fair day's labour" is a very good maxim, and a very favourite one ..., and No. V in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: There has been a great outcry lately about the "beer grievance," and public attention has been specially invited ..., No. II in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet., and Temporary local subject headings: Beer -- Spousal abuse -- Wives -- Husbands -- Children -- Poverty.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: Intemperance is a wily destroyer; never satisfied with the ruin it has wrought, it is ever seeking ..., and No. III in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from letterpress captions below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: Beer drinkers! Here is one of the victims of the great public house delusion ..., and No. I in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: Home! Can it be possible that our beautiful English word "home" applies to such a scene as this? ..., and No. IV in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Two lines of text below title: In consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the proprietor of Her Majesty's Theatre, with his usual readiness to meet the wishes and to give every possible accomodation to the public ..., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"An elderly man, bent to deformity, thin and shambling, in profile to the left, follows two flamboyant prostitutes who walk arm-in-arm, looking behind them. He supports himself on a walking-stick; from his pocket protrudes a book: 'Modest Prints'. The women's dresses trail on the pavement, but one lifts her skirt to display her legs. The background is formed of the massive stones at the corner of a high building."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Example for fathers
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "428" in upper right corner., Printed on verso: Gillray, James. Georgey a'cock-horse. London: Pubd. Novr. 23d 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street., and Bohn's "Supressed plates"; restrike of no. 9083 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 26th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
"George Hanger rides in profile to the left on a pony with a heavy body and short legs; his right foot thrust forward, the end of his bludgeon resting on the right toe. He wears a round hat tilted over the right eye, a striped neck-cloth, and prominent shirt-frill. Behind is the corner of (lower) 'Grosvenor Street', showing the door and a window of the famous coffee-house, 'The Mount', the name inscribed over the door."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '426' in upper right corner., Restrike for Bohn's "Supressed plates." Cf. No. 8889 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.7., and Printed on verso of: Gillray, James. A corner near the Bank, or, an example for fathers. Pubd. Sept. 26th, 1797, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 23rd 1796 by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street