Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist / Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century

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1. A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 3 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A drawing of four scenes, with caricatured figures with large heads and very small bodies. Upper left: A man with a monocle (right) inquires of the butler on a threshold with pillar to his left, "Is your master within. No Mr. Smallfeast he's gone out to dinner. Oh dear me, well your mistress will do just the same. & She's out Sir. How provoking. Well, I'll set down by the fire till they come home. I'm sorry to tell you that that's gone out to." Upper right: A soldier is shot by a man (Turk?) hiding in the tall grass and pointing a rifle. Lower half, left: In a pulpit a bald minister with spectacles rants and he holds up a Bible in his left hand ready to throw it at the sleeping congregation below, " Ye sleepy crew if ye wont hear the owrd of God ye shall feel it." Lower right: A simpleton in artist attire holds up a piece of paper with a stick figure drawing and says, "Don't you think I improve."
Description:: Title from captions written each image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Butlers, Clergy, Congregations, Soldiers, British, and Sleeping
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A disappointed dinnerhunter A bullet in ; A long sermon ; A neglected genius. [art original]

2. A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 9 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A group of twelve man and women of various ages and walks of live -- tradesmen, a clergy, a spinster, a military officer, a gentleman in shackles, a servant, a frail, sickly man, etc. -- stand full length facing the viewer. Above their heads are brief expressions of their 'wants': "I want a job"; "I want more customers"; "I want a husband"; "I want for death", etc. Only an obese gentleman on the right is content: "I want for nothing"; next to him, the military officer with a monocle says, "I don't know what I want."
Alternative Title:: Human nature delineated
Description:: Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Quotation following title: Lord, what an amorous thing is want. Hudibras., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Attributed to C.J. Grant based on style and association with other signed drawings., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Clergy, Distress, Men, Military officers, Occupations, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A picture of wants, or, Human nature delineated [art original].

3. Quite politely [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 6 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gentleman in a riding habit (left) rides his horse through the door of a cottage startling the family who sit at their dinner table. The man's hunting dog jumps at the young son who sits closest to the door; he screams in terror, his fork and knife frozen part way to his mouth and his leg thrown up, spilling a pitcher from the table. The mother raises up her arms in terror, letting the cutlery fly; in her mouth is a gnawed bone. Behind her is a wall with shelves lined with dishes and mugs. Her husband (right), back to the viewer, turns to the intruder pointing a long spear. His knife and fork are on the floor below his chair. The gentleman addresses the cottagers, "Och, dont disturb y'rselves my Nonies I only want to know whether you cou'd be after informing me where I cou'd meet with a decent night's lodging for man and beast."
Description:: Title from caption written below image in artist's hand, with the words trimmed along the lower edges with loss of the descenders., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Families, Interiors, Horseback riding, and Hunting dogs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Quite politely [art original]

4. Spiritual advice [art original].

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 4 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The more finished of the two wash drawing on recto shows a drunken tradesman (perhaps sailor or dustman) holding onto a post. Above him is written by the artist, "Niccup who are ye staring at. Take a little sober advice and go home for you seem to be beastly intosticated [sic]." On the verso, a graphite drawing of a baker(?). On the verso a pencil sketch of the same tradesman, unfinished
Description:: Title from caption written below image on recto, in artist's hand., Attributed to C.J. Grant based on style and association with other signed drawings., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Watermark on paper: J. Whatman 1830., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Intoxication and Occupations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Spiritual advice [art original].

5. Spiritual advice [art original].

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 4 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The more finished of the two wash drawing on recto shows a drunken tradesman (perhaps sailor or dustman) holding onto a post. Above him is written by the artist, "Niccup who are ye staring at. Take a little sober advice and go home for you seem to be beastly intosticated [sic]." On the verso, a graphite drawing of a baker(?). On the verso a pencil sketch of the same tradesman, unfinished
Description:: Title from caption written below image on recto, in artist's hand., Attributed to C.J. Grant based on style and association with other signed drawings., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Watermark on paper: J. Whatman 1830., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Intoxication and Occupations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Spiritual advice [art original].

6. The fox at the cupboard [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 5 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A view of the interior of a cottage with an old woman asleep in a chair, her feet resting on a low footstool in front of open door (left); in her lap she holds an open book and a pair of spectacles. On the right, a boy in a smock stands on a stool in front of an open cupboard eating from a full bowl. Along the back wall is a pair of casement windows with a drop leaf table below and pictures on the wall to the left. A cat walks across the center of the scene looking up at the boy
Description:: Title from caption in artist's hand written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Watermark on paper: J. Rump 1825., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Boys, Cats, Cupboards, Dwellings, Eating & drinking, Interiors, Sleeping, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The fox at the cupboard [art original]

7. The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 8 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man with a queue wig and wearing spectacles (right) sits expectantly at a small round tea table set for two; his hands on the table glench his knife and fork, his napkin tied around his neck like a bib. He leans forward as he eyes the food approach carried by a woman in a mop cap and wearing spectacles who stands full lengh (left) holding a long handled frying pan heaped high with dark ashes. He says, "Come, come, Dame is'nt my eggs and bacon done yet. I'm literally famish'd in waiting." She replies, "I am very sorry to inform your worship that just as I had done 'em so nice all this here soot fell into the pan."
Description:: Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Accidents, Cookery, Eating & drinking, Dining tables, Starvation, and Tableware
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The hungry epicure disappointed [art original]

8. The present state of John Bull [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 7 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: John Bull stands defiantly in the center of a crowd of angry men -- military officers, gentlemen of various ages, tradesmen, and an amputee -- most of whom hold out bills ranging between £50 and £5000; the speech bubbles above their heads read: "King's taxes"; "Police rate"; "Parish rates"; "Excise duties"; "Tithes church rates pew rents & Easter doos [sic]"; "Sundres &c." John Bull's response reads, "Damme ye had better devour me., ye voratious crew. Am I never to have my hands out of my pocket again, but 't wont last long lads. I shall soon be in the Gazette & then ye lazy drones ye must work hard for you own livings." The man with a large belly on the lower right carries a little dog under his arm
Description:: Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., Paper watermarked: J.R. 1828., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Topic):: John Bull (Symbolic character), Taxation, Anger, Crowds, Demonstrations, Dogs, Men, Military officers, and Obesity
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The present state of John Bull [art original]

9. The striking likeness [art original]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:: Drawings G761 no. 1 Box D123
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An artist (left) with a caricatured face looks on with horror as a bust falls on the head of the Lord, the sitter, who jumps and shreaks with pain, his foot breaking the window (right). In the background the Lord's round, well-dressed wife looks on in horror and Sketch on verso in pencil shows a boxer with gloves in a fighting stance. The figures in ink on recto, the artist and his lordship, bleed-through the image on verso
Description:: Title from caption written above image on recto; image on verso untitled., Verses below image begin: " A poor sculptor with his work elated, on a fickle lord one evening waited ; with his Lordship's bust ... Now her Ladyship with great acknowledg'd the sculptor's work to be a striking likeness.", Place and date of creation based on Grant's known place of residence and years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Artists, Boxers (Sports), Boxing, Couples, Distress, Pain, Sculptors, and Sculptures
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The striking likeness [art original]