[Wood engraved blocks for caricatures] [realia].
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Description
- Title
- [Wood engraved blocks for caricatures] [realia].
- Creator
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
- Contributor
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Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, attributed name.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, attributed name. - Published / Created
- [1820s and 1830s]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Four engraved boxwood printing blocks with comic scenes after Robert Cruikshank, Robert Seymour, and C.J. Grant
[First block]: A woodcut after a print by I. R. Cruikshank, "Seated at Coventry" (from 'The Book of Wonders' page 71). Cobbett sits a galloping ass, holding its tail and raising a birch-rod to smite. It is decorated with ribbons; from its rump issues a cloud inscribed 'Paper against Gold.'
[Second block]: A scene with a kicking donkey disrupting a picnic. After Robert Seymour?
[Third block]: Five intoxicated men sit around a table drinking and smoking; each man is attended by a small demon, while Death (personified as a skeleton holding a scythe and an hourglass) looms large in the background
[Fourth block]: A man wearing a tall tophat, punches another man (left) off his feet and sending him backwards as blood gushing from his nose; an astonished woman watches from the background on the right. In the background left the window with broken glass panes and on the wall on the right, a framed picture of a man's head, a grin on his face. The block is signed lower left with the initials CJG (that is, Charles James Grant).
- Description
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Title and date supplied by cataloger.
First block engraved after a design by Robert Cruikshank. For a description of this print, see no. 14040 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Shelved with a copy of each print produced from the blocks, on modern paper. - Provenance
- Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 12 December 2024, lot 85, purchased through Jarndyce; December 2024.
- Extent
- 4 printing blocks ; 11.3 x 13.9 x 2.3 cm and smaller
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- LWL Object 35 Boxed, shelved in Object Room C:C
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Wood blocks (printing blocks)
Printing blocks - Material
- wood and engraving
- Resource Type
- three-dimensional form
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17548456
- Object ID (OID)
- 33328453