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1.
A Christmas box [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 December 1826]
Call Number:
826.12.26.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A front elevation of a theatre-box crammed with delighted children fills the design. In the front row are a lady and four little girls. In the middle sits the father, one small boy on his knee, an arm round another child. Eight more children fill the box. Behind them a lady chooses fruit from an old woman's basket. Two men stand behind. Over the front of the box hangs a playbill: During the Xmas Holidays--Pantomime of Harliquin--Clown by Mr G [Grimaldi]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
Subject (Topic):
Theater audiences, Children, and Families
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Christmas box [graphic]

2.
Dancing dolls, or, "Les marionettes à Londrés" [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[15 January 1823]
Call Number:
823.01.15.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A (?) Savoyard boy playing fife and tabor exhibits his dolls, two puppets on a string stretched between his knee and a stick. A Welsh milk-woman (left), with her pails hanging from a yoke, laughs. Two little girls (right) are amused; the younger makes her doll imitate the puppets. The road is suburban, bordered by the paling of a Nursery, over which leans an amused spectator."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marionettes à Londrés
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 15, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Geographic):
France. and Wales.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Dairy workers, Dolls, and Puppets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dancing dolls, or, "Les marionettes à Londrés" [graphic]

3.
Home from school, or, The commencment [sic] of the holidays [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1835]
Call Number:
835.08.01.21+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The mother sits beside an open work-table, receiving the children whom a black footman ushers in, looking round the door and grinning broadly. The eldest girl has rushed into her mother's arms; a little boy stands beside her, gleefully welcoming a younger girl who is running forward. The eldest boy, on whom his mother's eyes are fixed, advances nonchalantly, blowing a trumpet. A cockatoo screeches on its perch. There are two pictures: Harvest Home and Happy Return, a woman at her cottage door greeting a youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Commencment of the holidays and Commencement of the holidays
Description:
Title from caption below image., Number "3" in "1835" in imprint has been erased and replaced with number "2" written in ms., Reissue of no. 15188 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published 1826 by S. Knights., Temporary local subject terms: Holidays -- Black servants -- Parlors -- Families -- Pictures amplify subjects -- Parrots -- Joy -- Horns., and Watermark: 1834.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 18[2]5, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Children, Cockatoos, Dogs, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Home from school, or, The commencment [sic] of the holidays [graphic]

4.
Juvenile monstrosities [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Aug. 1st, [1835]
Call Number:
835.08.01.16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Children on the sea-shore, with a background of cliffs and bathing-machines suggesting Brighton. In dress and manners they are tiny adults. Three couples walk arm-in-arm, a little boy sits on the ground. Two girls and two boys wear vast broad-brimmed hats as in BM Satires 15183. 24th January 1826"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Publication year erased partially and modified with ms. to present as '1826'
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 25 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Beaches, Children, Cliffs, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Juvenile monstrosities [graphic]

5.
Les Savoyards [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1st, 1835.
Call Number:
835.08.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
A little music à la françoise
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text above image: A little music à la françoise., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 13047 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Sept. 18, 1818, by G. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Gypsies -- Dustmen -- Dustman's bells., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 30.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Street entertainers, and Violins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Les Savoyards [graphic]

6.
Mushroom monstrosities [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[24 January 1826]
Call Number:
826.01.24.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A landscape is patterned with tiny children under huge wide-brimmed hats. Two girls in back view hasten towards three little boys who swagger forward, arm-in-arm; the hat of the tallest boy projects far beyond the heads of the others, who wear round peaked caps. All wear childish trousers gathered at the ankle in a dandyish manner. One boy rides a hobbyhorse, one child has fallen prone, and is almost covered by its hat. In the foreground grow genuine mushrooms."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Title from caption below image., and Watermark: J Whatman 1827.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 24, 1826 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. James's [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Children, Hats, Hobby horses, and Mushrooms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mushroom monstrosities [graphic]

7.
The dancing lesson. [graphic] / Pt. 1

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1835]
Call Number:
835.08.01.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A dancing-master in profile to the left, playing his kit, faces a little girl, who stands firmly, her feet in the first position, heels back to back, toes pointing almost at r. angles with her profile. His feet are also in the first position, as are those of a little boy in the doorway (right), one hand on the handle, bowing, or stooping, low. The room is boarded and bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
1st Position and First position
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., A symbol or monogram comprised of an elaborate double 'X' precedes Cruikshank's signature., and Publication date erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballet, Children, Dancers, and Violins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dancing lesson. [graphic] / Pt. 1

8.
The dancing lesson. [graphic] / Pt. 2

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[July 1825]
Call Number:
825.07.00.04
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Minuet
Description:
Title from caption below image., Heading above design: The minuet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Violin -- Dancing instruction -- Children.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Children and Dance
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The dancing lesson. [graphic] / Pt. 2

9.
The gin shop [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
November 1st, 1829.
Call Number:
829.11.01.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The gin shop [graphic]

10.
The pillars of a gin shop [and six other captioned and uncaptioned designs] / [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1833]
Call Number:
833.00.00.12
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Various humorous images comprising (clock-wise from top left); a lady in a ballgown; a portrait head of a gentleman in a very high collar and top hat holding a whip; a very thin and tall man, seated, dandling his child on his knee (lettered above "Daddy Longlegs"); a self-portrait of George Cruikshank; a study of the head of a bearded man; a seated girl, combing her hair; a man with wrinkled breeches, standing with his back to the viewer; a tall man with a pronounced hook nose (possibly the Duke of Wellington); an armoured man on horseback, turning in the saddle to his left, his sword in his hand; a country squire with his glass in his hand; a head of a man smoking a pipe; a portrait head of a bald man with an angry expression; a rural landscape; a fat sailor in naval uniform dancing a hornpipe (lettered below "Fat Jack"); a girl in an apron and bonnet; a young gentleman seated on a coach, the 'Dovor Express', and holding the reins and a whip (lettered below "Mr. Tommy Twiddlewhip playing at being a Coachman"); and a child seated on a chair and pretending to drive a team of horses; the large central image, a ragged family leaning against two Corinthian columns, the mother and father drunk, the little girl crying and the little boy with a sad expression; a large anthropomorphic copper still with an unpleasant expression on its face and a devil observing beyond (lettered below image "The Pillars of a Gin Shop."); illustration to the second volume of Cruikshank's "My Sketchbook" (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text beneath central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages and Children
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The pillars of a gin shop [and six other captioned and uncaptioned designs] / [graphic]

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