Johnny Cockaigne showing "Cousin Tummas" a "lions" den [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Johnny Cockaigne showing "Cousin Tummas" a "lions" den [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, publisher. - Published / Created
- [20 May 1828]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- George Cruikshank
- Abstract
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"Cockaigne, shewing "Cousin Tummas" a "Lions" den--' A view of Crockford's with riders, carriages, and pedestrians in the roadway. From the opposite pavement of St. James's Street a cockney points it out to a countryman. On the roof is a (symbolical) pigeon-cote on which perches a rook, while pigeons circle round it. Below: 'That's one of the London "Hells" Coz!"--"No sure! why what a nice looking place!!--Well; no wonder so many people do go to the Devil if he a' gotten such Foine Housen!!--' See No. 15934, &c. [2] "Legs" famous for "Cutting" & "Shuffling". Three gamesters stand together, all with long black legs, no body, and the heads of birds (rooks) with predatory beaks. Legs = blacklegs. Jon Bee, Slang, 1823. Cf. No. 14399, &c. [3] "I could a tale unfold". A pig with a curly tail. [4] 'Any thing but Fair play!' A duel, a very broad fat man fires at an absurdly thin one (who does not fire). [5] 'The Abode of Genius'. A ramshackle attic with a mattress on the floor under a sloping roof, across which socks are hung on a line. A man in ragged clothes of fashionable intention sits at a small table struggling with a piece of food held between teeth and fork. He says: 'To call this a tender Chuck Steak! & charge me two pence half-penny for it!!--I've a great mind to go & Chuck it in his face!--Aye!--its a fine thing to be a Genius!!!!!' Below: "My lodging is on the cold ground, / And very hard is my fare;"-- The distressed poet, a standard theme, cf. (e.g.) Nos. 12139, 15641. [6] "House of Industry"-- [Workhouse.] A cobbler, his wife, and three small children are hard at work in a miserable room. She: 'If you get paid for them shoes shall us have a bit of meat on Sunday?-- ' He: 'Why--I dont know what to say to that--you know we had meat last Sunday!--we must not be extravagant.' Below: "A Cobler there was & he lived in a Stall / which served him for Parlour & Kitchen & hall"!--"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title from caption below center image.
Six 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. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 73.
Temporary local subject terms: Cobblers -- Street scenes - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 3.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 26 x 35.7 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 828.05.20.04+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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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
- 9586851
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128765