"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair, the one on the right with a quizzing glass. All four are caricatured. A small dog lies on the ground. A large fire burns in the grate (right). Over the chimney-piece is the lower part of a whole length portrait. On the wall behind the players are three pictures: one of a man playing ninepins outside a rustic inn, with a donkey looking over a paling, is flanked by a picture of a horse and by a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Publication from another dated state published by McLean: "Augt 1st. 1835.", and See no. 12392 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, for a related version of this print.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Bowling, Chess, Dogs, Fireplaces, Hand lenses, and Pictures
"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair. All four are caricatured. A small dog lies on the ground. A large fire burns in the grate (right). Over the chimney-piece is the lower part of a whole length portrait. On the wall behind the players are three pictures: one of a man playing ninepins outside a rustic inn, with a donkey looking over a paling, is flanked by a picture of a horse and by a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Publication from another dated state published by McLean: "Augt 1st. 1835.", See no. 12392 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, for a related version of this print., and Manuscript "Aug 1835" added after imprint.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Bowling, Chess, Dogs, Fireplaces, Floor coverings, Hand lenses, and Pictures
A copy of a print (British Museum satires no. 12392) published by Humphrey in 6 March 1814. The players are the same, but one (right) has become gouty and sits in a winged arm-chair. The spectators are altered, but are perhaps intended to be the same persons, transformed by dress and pose. One (right) is a dandy who leans against the chimney-piece warming his coat-tails, and watching with a contemptuous smile. There is a picture of skittle-players, as in no. 12392; in place of the horse (left) a left-handed cricketer is depicted
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. August 1st, 1819 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
"A man, thin, elderly, and bald, leans back despairingly in an arm-chair by the fire, grimacing with upturned eyes, and holding a (useless) medicine-bottle. He is tormented by six little demons; one bores into his skull with an auger, another with a bit. A third raises a mallet to strike a wedge into the skull. One sits on his victim's shoulder, holding a music-book and bawling into his ear, another blows a trumpet against his cheek. A sixth runs up his arm to bring a red-hot poker into action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Headache
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1819 by G. Humphrey, see no. 13439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Headache, Devil, Demons, Fireplaces, and Hand tools
Print shows three fashionable dandies in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutanist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio and Hummingbirds, or, A dandy trio
Description:
Title etched below image., After a design by amateur caricaturist John Sheringham; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with G. Humphrey's original imprint replaced. For an earlier state, see no. 13446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., A reissue of a print originally published 15 July 1819 by G. Humphrey. This later state was included in Thomas McLean's 1835 collective reissue of several Cruikshank etchings entitled "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fashion, Clothing and dress, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, Music, Parlors, and Poodles
"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to pore over the recipe, which is in her left hand. One bare foot with deformed toes rests on a stool beside which are a spike-toed high-heeled shoe and a stocking. A table beside her and the floor below it are crowded with bottles, jars, and medicaments, with a pestle and mortar and a lighted candle. The candle sets fire to her cap, and the flame reaches a little bird-cage hanging from the ceiling. A cat walks under her petticoats; a tiny lap-dog lies in a cushioned band-box lid at her feet. A second cat claws towards a mouse which runs up the pole of a perch on which stands, a draggled and angry cockatoo. A pug-dog also looks up at the bird. Against the wall is a stuffed cat in a glass case; above it is a burlesque picture of Susanna and the Elders. A neat curtained bed is on the right. The chimney-piece is decorated with Diana (burlesqued) urging on the hounds to seize Actæon. On it are three peacock's feathers, bottles, spills, a shell, a Chinese mandarin, &c. The fireplace is lined with pictorial Dutch tiles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: an anchor titled diagonally., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print first published as the heading to a broadside entitled "Recipe for corns". For an earlier state published 4 December 1822 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14443 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of his neck holding up a noose which is attached to a projection from the solitary candle on the chimneypiece, which is burnt to the socket. Another, swinging himself from the chimneypiece, offers an open razor. One standing beside the grate commits suicide, a pistol to each ear, glaring at his victim. A little gnome crouches behind the bars of the grate, to which is attached a begging-box with the notice Pray Remember the Poor Debtors [cf. British Museums Satires No. 13287]. In the fireplace is a placard: Mr--Dr to T Coke Coal Mert To 5 Chalds Wallsend . . To Do Chalds Wallsend To 3 Ch . . . £73. On the arm of the chair stands a top-booted bailiff tapping his victim's shoulder and proffering a writ. On the floor a procession walks (left to right) towards the victim, headed by a fat and pompous parish beadle with a tall staff. He is followed by three pregnant women, cloaked and bonneted (cf. British Museums Satires No. 14613, 15495). A lean old-fashioned doctor with a skull-like face hurries up behind them. Last runs a ghoulish creature with a coffin strapped to his back, holding a hammer. A monster with fanged mouth (gout) extends claws towards the victim's feet. On the floor at his side is an open book: Ennui. On a table (left) a mannikin sits on the foot of a reversed wine-glass, gleefully holding up an empty bottle and his hat. Beside him are papers: Bill for Payment Lies due at no . . . Two books on a wall-bracket form a platform for a similar creature who is gleefully painting at one of two pictures on the wall. His brush is a firebrand, a conflagration is depicted. The other picture is of a shipwreck. The books are: Miseries of Human Life [cf. British Museums Satires No. 10815, &c] (Folio) Vol. 2222 and Bucanns [Buchan's] Domestic Medicine. A third picture above the victim's head is of himself assaulted by a screaming virago with a pair of bellows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 10 January 1823 by G. Humphrey, see no. 14598 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., Temporary local subject terms: Miseries of human life -- Artists -- Pictures amplify subject -- Misery -- Hanging rope., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Depression -- Devils & Demons., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.0 x 26.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Depiction of a man suffering from indigestion, suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Remnants of food surround him; dinner invitations are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title etched below image., 'A. Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Alfred Henry Forrester and Charles Robert Forrester., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1825 by S. Knight, see no. 14904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Indigestion, Devil, House furnishings, Demons, and Pain
"An elderly woman, lean, old-fashioned, and spinsterish, sits on a settee, shrieking and contorted with pain. A rope is wound tightly round her waist, the ends held by vicious little demons (left and right), who tug with all their might. Four others attack her with spear, trident, needle, and knife. On the wall (right) is a picture of a fat, disreputable-looking woman drinking, bottle in hand, by a bedroom fire."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using Frederick Marryat's device: a slanted anchor., Reissue, with new imprint statement etched above the old one that has been mostly burnished out. For an earlier state published 12 February 1819 by G. Humphrey, see no. 13438 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Year "1835" in imprint has been scored through but is still legible., Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Cholic.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Pain, Stomach aches, Demons, Devil, Sofas, Spears, and Ropes
Depiction of a man suffering from indigestion, suggested by little characters and demons tormenting him. Remnants of food surround him; dinner invitations are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title etched below image., 'A. Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Alfred Henry Forrester and Charles Robert Forrester., Reissue, with new imprint statement. For an earlier state published 12 February 1825 by S. Knight, see no. 14904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Plate from: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835].
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Indigestion, Devil, House furnishings, Demons, and Pain
