"After the title: Four Gentlemen of the Name of Price, all of very different dimensions, are thus distinguished by their friends--The Tall one, is called--High Price--the short one Low Price, the Fat one Full Price & the Thin one Half Price--Examiner. Four men, much burlesqued, walk arm-in-arm, advancing (right to left) towards the spectator. Below each is his name: High Price [&c.]. They are (left to right): an enormously tall dandy with a tiny 'Petersham' hat; a very short man in top-boots and breeches; an enormously fat man in loose trousers, and an impossibly thin one wearing breeches and wrinkled gaiters."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Men -- Thin -- Obesity.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 5th 1825 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street
Title written below image., Artist's initials on lower left, and on right, [anchor]--G. Cruikshank fect., Date based on original work created 1833., Pubd. by Thos McLean, 26 Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1835 [scored through]., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Four ugly old women try to scrub a black man white with brushes, a kettle of boiling water, as steam billows around the room. A fifth woman brings buckets of hot water. A sixth, in the center background, drinks gin. The black man squats in a big tub, with a pained expression on his face
Description:
Title inscribed beneath central image., Attributed to George Cruikshank., Date inferred from the 1827 publication date of George Cruikshank's Illustrations of time, plate 3 of which includes a smaller version of the central image. Cf. No. 15472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Image also used in Plate 3 of Cruikshank's 'Illustrations of Time'; the attempt to 'wash a black man white' was a traditional example of an impossible task., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman 1821".
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Ethnic stereotypes, Racism, Wash tubs, and Brooms & brushes
"A section of the deck of a small sailing vessel, seen from outside; cockneyfied passengers, depicted with a sailor's contempt, hang over the rail in misery or walk on deck. The helmsman (left) stands impassively in profile to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Reproduction of an etching by George Cruikshank, after a drawing by Frederick Marryat; Cruikshank's "etched by G.C." signature and Marryat's artist's device (an anchor tilted diagonally) are reproduced and legible beneath the design, as is the original imprint "London, Pubd. June 5th, 1824, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street.", Orignal etching was presumably an early state of a plate more widely published with the title "To Calais." For the state following the title change, which has the same G. Humphrey imprint and lists the same publication date, see no. 14719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10. The plate retained this latter title when it was reissued in: Cruikshankiana. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket, [1835]., A companion print entitled "From the West Indies" has the same signatures and imprint statement as the original etching; see no. 14718 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 2036., and Cf. Reid, G.W. Descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1249.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Passengers, Decks (Ships), Motion sickness, Hats, and Smoking
A young woman sits despairingly on the edge of a bed, with the end of a garter round her neck; the other end dangles from the bed-tester. She watches a servant holding a foppish, elderly naval officer by the collar as he flourishes a cudgel. At his feet lie a set of bellows. On the wall is a framed picture of Venus and Adonis with Cupid
Description:
Title from published print based on this drawing., Signed "George Cruikshank" lower right. The British Museum catalogue attributes the design to George's father Isaac in its description of the print engraved after this drawing. Cohn similarly suggests that this design "was probably the work chiefly of Isaac"., A drawing for the illustrated songsheet "Galvanism, or, The miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily", published by Laurie & Whittle in 1807, which tells the tale of a servant Darby Daly who discovers the young Miss Baily hanging, and after reviving her with bellows, forces her seducer to marry her., Backed with Japanese tissue; with the title "The outraged husband" printed on mount., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10938., and Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1144.
Subject (Topic):
Adonis, Cupid, Venus, Beating, Bellows, Bedrooms, Couples, Canopy beds, Military officers, British, Paintings, Seduction, and Servants
A gentleman leads a young woman and her mother (or chaperone) to the door of a carriage, held open by the coach driver who wears a top hat and a peculiar grin. In the background is a house or inn with a partially drawn figure (in ink) watching or emerging from the door. On the verso, pencil sketches of two men in top hats, and a smaller figure lightly sketched with a top hat in black ink
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist in lower left., Date from dealer's description., and On verso are later inscriptions in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Young adults, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Dwellings
Preliminary drawings on front and back for a print, "The Wimbledon hoax!, or, Waterloo review!!!!!!", etched by Cruikshank and published by James Johnson 10 June 1816, with the design reversed. Holiday-making familiese of 'cits' drive, ride, and walk in the park
Alternative Title:
Waterloo review
Description:
Title from that of the print, for which these are preparatory drawings., Signed by the artist in brown ink in lower right corner., Date inferred from that of the associated print, which was published 1 July 1816 by J. Johnson as the frontispiece to The Scourge, xii. See no. 12790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9., and Two notes about the design written by the artist in ink and graphite.
