Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print on wove paper : lithograph, hand-colored ; sheet 25.2 x 29.9 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 31.
Title from text above image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Imprint continues: ... where political and other caricatuers are daily pub., Text below image: Thought would destroy his paradise where ignorance is bliss!! 'Tis folly to be wise., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1828]
Call Number:
828.00.00.80+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: "Have you an idea he will go well?" ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With: Cockney sportsmen on a strong scent. No. 7.
"Cockaigne, shewing "Cousin Tummas" a "Lions" den--' A view of Crockford's with riders, carriages, and pedestrians in the roadway. From the opposite pavement of St. James's Street a cockney points it out to a countryman. On the roof is a (symbolical) pigeon-cote on which perches a rook, while pigeons circle round it. Below: 'That's one of the London "Hells" Coz!"--"No sure! why what a nice looking place!!--Well; no wonder so many people do go to the Devil if he a' gotten such Foine Housen!!--' See No. 15934, &c. [2] "Legs" famous for "Cutting" & "Shuffling". Three gamesters stand together, all with long black legs, no body, and the heads of birds (rooks) with predatory beaks. Legs = blacklegs. Jon Bee, Slang, 1823. Cf. No. 14399, &c. [3] "I could a tale unfold". A pig with a curly tail. [4] 'Any thing but Fair play!' A duel, a very broad fat man fires at an absurdly thin one (who does not fire). [5] 'The Abode of Genius'. A ramshackle attic with a mattress on the floor under a sloping roof, across which socks are hung on a line. A man in ragged clothes of fashionable intention sits at a small table struggling with a piece of food held between teeth and fork. He says: 'To call this a tender Chuck Steak! & charge me two pence half-penny for it!!--I've a great mind to go & Chuck it in his face!--Aye!--its a fine thing to be a Genius!!!!!' Below: "My lodging is on the cold ground, / And very hard is my fare;"-- The distressed poet, a standard theme, cf. (e.g.) Nos. 12139, 15641. [6] "House of Industry"-- [Workhouse.] A cobbler, his wife, and three small children are hard at work in a miserable room. She: 'If you get paid for them shoes shall us have a bit of meat on Sunday?-- ' He: 'Why--I dont know what to say to that--you know we had meat last Sunday!--we must not be extravagant.' Below: "A Cobler there was & he lived in a Stall / which served him for Parlour & Kitchen & hall"!--"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below center image., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 73., and Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Street scenes
Title from caption below image., "Cross" in imprint represented by an "X"., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Dandies -- Couples -- Dancing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1828 by G. Treguar 104 St. Martins Lane Chairing [sic]
Title from text below and above image., Date based on known years of publisher's activity., Image is presented as an inversion illusion. Title portion above image inscribed upside down: Cry and grow lean., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by S. Gans, 15 Southampton St., Strand and Printed by C. Ingrey
Title from caption below image., Title continues: ... the "fat knight" floored!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Games.
Publisher:
Published Dec. 1, 1828 by Geo. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
