Title from caption below image., Attribution below imprint statement: Ducôté & Stephen's lithogy. 70 St. Martin's Lane., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A satire on a working man's interest in reading: On a city street, a laborer with a large load of furniture -- desk, chairs, brooms, etc. -- is distracted with the paper he is reading and hits a gentleman in the face with the leg of the desk
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Approximate publication date from similar print in untitled series., and On same sheet: A bite at last!!!! That's two to day Gran-par!!
Publisher:
Pubd. by James Smith, 14 Wellington St., Goswell St. Road
Title from heading above image., Artist's attribution continues: ... who particularly requests that his friends & the public will observe that he has not any connexion with the works put forth by Mr. Kidd of Chandos Street, expect "The gentleman in black" published some years ago and that is the only transaction he ever had or ever intends to have with the aforesaid Mr. Kidd the publisher of Chandos Street, West Strand., Caption below central image: Most approved method of pulling a fellows nose (as practised by St. Dunstan), Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 1 no. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above central image., Six lines of verse above imprint statement: This is a stick of rhetorick or to tell you plainly it's intent ..., Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper left corner: Pl. 2., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1834]
Call Number:
834.00.00.24+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger based on caption below image in center of sheet., Date of publication from unaltered impression in the Yale Center for British Art., Text following imprint: Also sold by T. Dewhurst, Manchester; T. Drake, Birmingham; R. Thorley, Bath; M.A. Organ, Bristol; Ross & Nightingale, Liverpool; &c &c &c., Numerous small designs on one sheet, some individually titled below., Description based on imperfect impression; three areas of text below series title have been mostly or completely erased from sheet., and Temporary local subject terms: