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
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1834]
Call Number:
834.08.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to four designs in each row, individually titled. The pairs are visual puns, e.g., starting at the top row from the left, "A box at the opera" shows two men fist fighting; "A rain beau" shows a couple walking in the rain,...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
"Two men engaged in a fist-fight in centre: the one to left (Daniel O'Connell) punching the other (Lord Althorp); to left, a man holding up a bottle in his left hand (Richard Lalor Shiel); a man standing to far left watching in excitement (Edward Sout...
Alternative Title:
Fancy sketch : showing a select specimen of the cross-palpable
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Sheil, Richard Lalor, 1791-1851, Ruthven, Edward Southwell,, Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866, Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, 1776-1869, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Inglis, Robert Harry, Sir, 1786-1855
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Fighting, Bottles, Clocks & watches, Spectators, and Conversation
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
1834.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 12 Box 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the top scene, three men (King William IV, Duke of Wellington, and an unidentified figure) in a variety of dress stand arm in arm with a woman (Queen Adelaide) wearing a feather in her hat. They appear to be amused by the commotion next to them in ...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Dance, Singing, Chants, politicians, dances (performing arts compositions), dances (performance events), chants, and dance (performing arts genre)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 October 1834]
Call Number:
834.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled. In the upper left and reading across, "Daddy Longlegs" shows a very think, long-legged man poised to smash the insect on his wall. To the right, on top "The itinerant chance...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, and sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, Wiseheart, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Probably representing one of the "pair of beautiful old carved solid ebony chairs, of the Elizabethan period, pierced backs, richly decorated with birds, flowers and figures, twisted rails, the frames finely carved in scrolls, and cane sear"--1842 Str...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 2, 1834 by Wm. Pickering, Chancery Lane
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
Jany. 10th, 1834.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 14 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men in ragged clothing eat soup from a single large bowl on a table. The man on the left has risen out of his seat and holds up his fork, from which hangs the wig of the man sitting across the table, who wears a bandana covering his bald head. The...
Several designs, many with captions including a black coach driver; a fashionably dressed young black woman; a mother and child; a child with a doll; a scene in which whites hoe the ground under the watch of a black overseer, etc. In the center, the ...
Description:
Title from caption below central image.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Card games, Cats, Coach drivers, Infants, Mothers, and Water pipes (Smoking)
A satire on British reform efforts using the story of Io, who was abducted by Jupiter and changed into heifer. The figure of Mercury, wearing winged sandals and hat and holding two horns, stands on the right looking down at a large sleeping man with g...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. and Mercury (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cows, Newspapers, Boxes, and Clubs (Weapons)
"A man standing in a door to left, wearing a dressing gown and night cap (Lord Brougham); a man in centre, his left arm outstretched, pointing at three men standing to right, the one in front holding a piece of paper, and the one next to him in foregr...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducôté & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Sleepwear, Bowing, and Doors & doorways
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1st, 1834.
Call Number:
Print01361
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Central scene shows rivalry between doctors and their respective quack remedies. A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs. Beneath are a comic strip and a further...
Description:
Title from text beneath largest image at top of sheet.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick?
Subject (Name):
Morison, James, 1770-1840., Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818., and Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Quacks and quackery, and Tablets (Medicine)
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1834]
Call Number:
834.00.00.32
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ten individually titled designs on one sheet, including a comic depiction of gentlemen's fashions for the summer and a figure of a man made up of nine small tailors
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using captions below several of the images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst ; $a Manchester, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ ; $a Bristol, and Ross & Nightingale
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[15 June 1834]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 19 Box 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to five designs in each row, individually titled. Starting with the largest design in its own row at top, "The cigar mania" shows a busy street scene with men and boys of all ages and social classes smoking cigars and dis...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using caption above largest design at top.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ, and Ross & Nightingale
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Londonderry, Charles William Vane, Marquis of, 1778-1854 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
A city scene with a line of poor men, women, and children lined up from a money lender's shop to the "Temple of Juniper: Best gin". In the background crowds stand at the doorways of the workhouse (right) and the county gaol (left).
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, City & town life, Families, Gin, Jails, Intoxication, Poor persons, Poverty, and Pawnshops
