Landlord & tenant [graphic].

Description

Title: Landlord & tenant [graphic].
Alternative Title: Landlord and tenant
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor: Hehl, Simon, Captain, active 1814-1818, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1817 and 1819?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029), with a handsome profile, wearing knee-breeches, advances with a mincing step and outstretched hands towards an ugly farmer who stands facing him with a large stick and wearing top-boots and broad-brimmed hat. The tenant holds a money-bag and is fiercely prognathous. The landlord: "My dear Sir--I am rejoiced to see you--I hope your lovely family are well--You are a charming Man--correct in every point--in short your countenance is an index to your mind." The farmer: "You certainly are flattering me--here is your Rent.--as to my family--thanks to the Lord, my Wife, and all the brats, be gone to kingdome come." There is a carpeted floor."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Artist identified as Capt. Hehl in the British Museum catalogue.
Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
"One of prints (coloured) by, after, or attributed to G. Cruikshank [many were closely copied and unless original and copy can be compared they are difficult to distinguish; some attributed by Reid or Cohn to Cruikshank are in the manner of the supposed copyist; some are probably by I. R. Cruikshank], from a set issued c. 1817 to c. 1819 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; June 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39.5 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English