A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Leaf 67. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two burly women, almost naked above the waist, fight vigorously, surrounded by a yelling crowd. The scene is an irregular space surrounded by old-fashioned houses, and crowded with spectators, eager or disgusted. In the foreground (left) an apple-wom...
Alternative Title:
Being a compulsory spectator and auditor of a brawling and scratching match ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Fighting, Intoxication, Crowds, Porters, and Street vendors
Leaf 6. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A press-gang at work in a London street, at the end of which appears the dome of St. Paul's. A sailor (center) strides towards the spectator, a club in his right. hand, dragging along a lean tailor, who holds up his hands in dismay. An infuriated wom...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 15th, 1779, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
"Scene in an irregularly shaped cul-de-sac, placarded Gin Court and surrounded by gin-shops, with bow-fronted windows filled with bottles, &c. One fish-wife has just struck down another; each has a second, that of the victor a man (left), the other a ...
Alternative Title:
Battle of Agincourt
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
[...] T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Alcoholic beverages, Commercial streets, and Fighting
A scene on the sidewalk outside a walled property: A group of citizens argue with each other, while a policeman apprehends a young man. An older man listens to a bootblack with the aid of an ear trumpet. A Black servant stands at the open door of the...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 24, 1840 by Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Fighting, Hearing aids, Police, and Servants
A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
"Men are fighting with clubs on a wide upper landing and on a flight of stairs (right) which leads to the hall below. Two doors open on to the landing, over one (right) is inscribed 'Freedom of Election'; through the other more men are seen with clubs...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Erskine, William, Sir, 1770-1813, Hutton, John, active 1796, and Skinner, Johanna, active 1796
Subject (Topic):
Political elections, Fighting, Interiors, Stairways, and Doors & doorways
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two groups of tailors battle each other. The group on the left, fighting under the "Journeymen Tailors Union for a fair renumeration of labour" banner, charge forward riding geese and using scissors as weapons; additional members fire bows and arrows ...
"Scene in a bedroom, meanly furnished except for a four-post curtained bed (left) and a carpeted floor; it is lit by a single candle or rush-light. Lady Eldon (right), a lean and ugly virago, assails the ex-Chancellor with a shovel, holding him by the...
Alternative Title:
New administration
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, Chancery Lane
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 and Eldon, Elizabeth, Lady, 1754-1831
Satire with two naval officers (one of whom is the Duke of Clarence caricatured, with heavy jowl, protruding lips, and small slanting eye) abusing each other at table, observed by a civilian who winks and holds a finger to the side of his nose. The na...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. Augt. 22d, 1827, by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, London
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Insults, Military officers, and Pictures
Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers...
Alternative Title:
Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.