Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Politicians introducing themselves and asking for Christmas boxes to John Bull."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "121" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 121.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Brooms & brushes, Lanterns, Staffs (Sticks), Bells, and Rats
"Heading to a printed broadside: '(Third Edition.)' and 'New Version', verses printed in two columns below the (printed) title. The Duke of York, with a gauntleted fist, strikes in the face the startled King, who staggers, decanter in hand, saying, "Theres no dependance on the Army." The Duke answers: "Not for you." A supper-table, with decanters, &c., overturns on the right, the King's chair on the left; the chair is decorated with an irradiated wine-glass flanked by bowing Chinese, and, like the table, is fringed by bells. Behind the King are two bottle-holders, the bottles in the shape of a 'Green Bag' [see British Museum Satires No. 13735], and so inscribed; they are Castlereagh and Liverpool, who are backed by Sidmouth and Canning. They say: "Never fear--we are here," and "Never fear." Behind the Duke is the Queen between two ladies; she says: "Fair play's a Jewell Face to Face Truith [sic] will come out." Four of her supporters watch from the left: Wood in his alderman's gown, and holding a 'City Address', says: "A blow has been Struck who feels it?" Burdett, next Hobhouse, and holding a 'West' [minster Address], says: "When Britons strike they strike home." The fourth is a barrister (one of the Queen's legal advisers, not resembling Brougham). The sixth and seventh of ten verses: Said Ca . . tl . . gh I know the Cause, Y . . k's for your 'R .... l Rib', Sire, Your M .... y shall have New Laws, You know we never gib, Sire. Said W . . b . . rce, with face demure, Divorce!...... we'll soon obtain it; Another Consort we'll ensure, His end......Y . . k ne'er shall gain it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Tentative attribution to Robert Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., Publisher and approximate publication date of August 1820 from the British Museum catalogue. The same print is dated March 1820 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.831., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Ten stanzas of verse in two columns below title, printed in letterpress: Cried G......e, who dare my will resist, My word shall ne'er be shaken ..., Watermark: Cater., Window mounted to 34.7 x 25.8 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 54 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Sidmouth," "Canning," "Londondery [sic]," "Liverpool," "Geo. IV," "D. York," "Caroline," and "Wood" identified in ink below image. Various blank spaces in the printed verses have been filled in using purple ink, to complete the censored names and the words "Royal" and "King." Typed extract of eight lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
C.E. Pritchard
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fights, Bottles, Wine, Tables, Chairs, and Bells
"Heading to a printed broadside: ... 'New Version', verses printed in two columns below the (printed) title. The Duke of York, with a gauntleted fist, strikes in the face the startled King, who staggers, decanter in hand, saying, "Theres no dependance on the Army." The Duke answers: "Not for you." A supper-table, with decanters, &c., overturns on the right, the King's chair on the left; the chair is decorated with an irradiated wine-glass flanked by bowing Chinese, and, like the table, is fringed by bells. Behind the King are two bottle-holders, the bottles in the shape of a 'Green Bag' [see British Museum Satires No. 13735], and so inscribed; they are Castlereagh and Liverpool, who are backed by Sidmouth and Canning. They say: "Never fear--we are here," and "Never fear." Behind the Duke is the Queen between two ladies; she says: "Fair play's a Jewell Face to Face Truith [sic] will come out." Four of her supporters watch from the left: Wood in his alderman's gown, and holding a 'City Address', says: "A blow has been Struck who feels it?" Burdett, next Hobhouse, and holding a 'West' [minster Address], says: "When Britons strike they strike home." The fourth is a barrister (one of the Queen's legal advisers, not resembling Brougham). The sixth and seventh of ten verses: Said Ca . . tl . . gh I know the Cause, Y . . k's for your 'R .... l Rib', Sire, Your M .... y shall have New Laws, You know we never gib, Sire. Said W . . b . . rce, with face demure, Divorce!...... we'll soon obtain it; Another Consort we'll ensure, His end......Y . . k ne'er shall gain it."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later edition
Description:
Title from letterpress text below image., Tentative attribution to Robert Cruikshank from the British Museum catalogue., First edition?, An approximate date of August 1820 is given in the British Museum catalogue for a later edition; the same print is dated March 1820 in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.831., Imperfect; sheet has been cut in half, with bottom portion (16.1 x 20.7 cm) containing the letterpress text mounted separately beside upper portion containing the engraved plate., For the third edition with slight changes to the verses, see no. 13830 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 38 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Canning, George, 1770-1827, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, and Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Fights, Bottles, Wine, Tables, Chairs, and Bells
"A fantastic and complicated design. Queen Caroline leans back in an arm-chair, pen in hand, staring as if at a vision, her black locks flying outwards and upwards. Above her head, as if sprung from it, is an owl with the cross of the Order of St. Caroline (see British Museum Satires No. 13810) in its beak, and on its head a fool's cap with bells. She wears a décolletée dress with voluminous gathered trousers, as in many prints; her right foot is placed regally on a footstool. Her right arm rests on a table and on the paper on which she writes: To the King. She listens to a serpent held up by Dr. Parr, brandyfaced and naked except for his wig, one of several figures pressing round her, partly obscured by shadow. Lieut. Hownam looks over her right shoulder, two other faces are partly hidden, one may be Flinn, the other resembles Burdett. The aquiline profile of Hobhouse is behind Parr. On the right stands a broom, supporting a wig and gown (Brougham); another wig and gown beside it must indicate Denman; both are in back view. On the left and in the foreground stands Wood, as a devil, hairy and naked except for a furred gown, symbol of the alderman. He turns towards her, holding a baton, topped by a little cap of Liberty, and strings attached to two tiny processions: a state-coach (the Queen's) drawn by four horses and a band of armoured men on horseback, with banners, one inscribed Brass [the braziers' procession, see British Museum Satires No. 14119]. They are surrounded by clouds of dust. Over his shoulder look Cobbett, wearing a red cap with tricolour cockade and brandishing a bone (Paine's, see British Museum Satires No. 13525). To left and right of these advisers are evil gangs (cf. British Museum Satires No. 14194): a procession (left) of men with tall staves or pikes topped by caps of Liberty, and with a tricolour banner inscribed No Church no King no Constitution Universal Suffrage & Annual Plunder for ever. They wave their hats and cheer; their leader wears an apron. Above them floats a figure of Justice holding scales and a crown. Behind on the right naked arms raise firebrands, fanatical faces loom from the shadow; one at least has the snaky locks of Discord. The ornate round table at which the Queen writes is piled with boxes; on the largest, inscribed Secrets of the Baron, stands a small lifelike image of Bergami dressed as a courier. Other objects are a wallet from which projects a paper: 50,000 Per Ann [see British Museum Satires No. 14145], a vase of flowers, a decanter labelled (punningly) Tent [see British Museum Satires No. 13818]. On the floor are two figurines, one in back view, the other of Mahomet dancing (see British Museum Satires No. 13929). At the Queen's feet are her much-feathered four-cornered cap, and papers, one headed My dear Ca . . . and signed BB [Bartolomeo Bergami], the other beginning My dear C and signed Mat. [Wood]. By the broom are bulky bundles of papers: Brooming Correspondence and Defence of Moth[er Red Cap, see British Museum Satires No. 13975]. The owl is the base of an irregular inverted cone, formed of cloud-borne objects from the Queen's head. These are: Cobbets Register, The Times (see British Museum Satires No. 13968), The Champion (see British Museum Satires No. 13677), realistically depicted; three conical caps of Liberty with tricolour cockades inscribed respectively Bat, Cat, Mat [for Bergami, the Queen, and Wood; the title of a print, see British Museum Satires No. 14206 [23]]; Letters to Watch Makers [of] Coventry C B, over which hangs a watch and chain. Two large sketch-books, open: [1] Journal of a Tour to Jerusalem [see British Museum Satires No. 13918, &c.] with a view of a large mosque inscribed Temple of Solomon C.B del. [2] [Mem]oranda of the [Vi]lla d Este, facing a view of a large lake-side villa (see British Museum Satires No. 13857); this partly covers a third sketch: [Bucki]ngham House [the Queen's House as in British Museum Satires No. 14175]. Three large bundles of letters: Letters to the Baron [Bergami]; Wooden Headed Addresses Below Par; Answers to Addresses above Par [i.e. composed by Parr, see British Museum Satires No. 13934]. In a picture of a royal coach drawn by six horses and with three footmen behind the tiny passenger seems to be the Queen. Next this along the upper edge of the cone are pieces of plate decorated with a crown: urn, salver, goblet, candlestick, spoons, &c, with a paper: Plate Subscription.."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Evil communications corrupt good manners
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J. Whatman 1821., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 96 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Wood," "Bergami," "Caroline," "Brougham," and "Denman" identified in ink below image; date "10 July 1821" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of twenty-three lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted opposite (on verso of preceding leaf).
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868., Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854., Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
