"Ignorance is bliss" [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- "Ignorance is bliss" [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, publisher. - Published / Created
- May 20th 1828.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- George Cruikshank
- Abstract
-
"[1] "Ignorance is bliss --" Two liveried flunkeys, 'pampered menials', lounge on the doorsteps of a town house, a bloated dog seated between them. One asks his obese companion 'What is Taxes Thomas?!!' Answer: 'I'm sure I don't Know!' Inside the hall a grossly fat porter sleeps in his hooded chair. [2] 'Gentility!--' A little chimney-sweep, decked out in ribbons, and holding brush and shovel, addresses another 'climbing boy': 'vhy I say Jim ar'nt you a gooing out with Jack & the Green?!!' The other: 'No. Master says as how its werry low -- Ve ar all a going to dine with the Masters & Missus's at Vite Condic [White Conduit] House'. For sweeps on May Day cf. No. 6740. [3] 'Brobdignag Bonnet -- Seven people beside the wearer walk under the flat brim of a huge ribbon-trimmed hat. Cf. No. 15618. [4] "Now that, I heard"-- One ragged street lad says to another, at the corner of 'Argyll Street': 'Hallo! Jack vare are you agoing to?' The (ironical) answer: 'Oh! vhy I'm a going to a Consort at the Argyll Rooms!' (Cf. No. 15604.) [5] 'A Jolly Companion'. Bust profile to the right of a man constructed of materials for punch; the shoulders are the broken top of a sugar-loaf; bowl, decanter, two glasses, lemon, lemon-squeezer, and corkscrew make up the head. Cf. No. 11824, &c. [6] 'All a blowing all a growing' (the cry of the London street-sellers of plants). A woman's figure is formed of a hand-bell whose handle, the body, supports an immense hat, the crown covered with flowers; ribbon streamers from brim to shoulders form arms. Cf. No. 15611.†. [7] 'Tooth Powder . A sufferer from tooth-ache, seated on a couch, extracts a tooth by firing a pistol, the bullet attached by a string to the tooth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from caption below center image.
Seven 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. To be continued occasionally. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 11, p. 73. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 4.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25.7 x 35.4 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 828.05.20.03+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Arcimboldesque figures
Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1828
England > London > 1828
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9586834
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128764