"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...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 26th, 1826, by S. Knights, Sweetings [A]lley, Royal Exchange
"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 make...
Alternative Title:
Marionettes à Londrés
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Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 15, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
"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 yo...
Alternative Title:
Commencment of the holidays and Commencement of the holidays
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 18[2]5, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Children, Cockatoos, Dogs, and Sewing equipment & supplies
"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...
"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 ...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 24, 1826 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. James's [sic]
"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 ...
"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 c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
"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 c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
