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 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 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 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.
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 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 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