Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1820s and 1830s]
Call Number:
LWL Object 35 Boxed, shelved in Object Room C:C
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
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, and [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:
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., and Shelved with a copy of each print produced from the blocks, on modern paper.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1834?]
Call Number:
Print01172
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed in lower left corner with C.J. Grant's initials., Possibly an illustration from Every body's album & caricature magazine, a series published in 1834 by J. Kendrick., Sheet trimmed with possible loss of title and imprint., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gin shops.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick?
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking facilities, Gin, Intoxication, Alcoholism, Poor persons, and Children
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whigs destroying wooden objects and a press representing the Press."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Three lines of text below title: The perfidious, perjured, peculating, persecuting, paltry, purse-proud, penicious ... pilfering, plundering Whigs, smashing the unstamp'd., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "100" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 100.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vandalism, Hammers, Axes, and Printing presses
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Twelve caricatures of politicians dressed as characters in a pantomime
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; trimmed with loss of series title and numbering from top edge. Series statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 31 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[31 August 1839]
Call Number:
839.08.31.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satire on the legal case between two purveyor’s of medical ointments Felix Albinolo and Thomas Holloway in the form of a dialogue between Mr. Bull, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sawney; with an image with a cartouche "Albinolo's, or, The St. Come et St. Damien (brothers & physicians.) Ointment, 23 Earl Street, Blackfriars, London." decorated with an eye (all-seeing?) at the top, snakes on the side, and a lion at the bottom
Alternative Title:
No family ought ever to be without a pot of Albinolo's ...
Description:
Title from text below image., Text above image: No family ought ever to be without a pot of Albinolo's, or the St. Come and St. Damien's Ointment., Attribution to C.J. Grant from his known contributions to the periodical in which this illustration appeared. See: C.J. Grant's political drama. London : University College, c1998, page 12., Illustration from: The Penny satirist. London : B.D. Cousins, v. 3, no. 124 (31 August 1839), page 4., and Wood engraving with letterpress text.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left portion of design., Part of a new series of The political drama that was begun in 1841. See pages 12-13 in: C.J. Grant's political drama: a radical satirist rediscovered. London : University College, c1998., Five lines of text below title: Wellington, Peel, and Co.'s noted cabinet manufactory, wholesale, retail, and in expectation ..., "Price 1d."--Upper right corner., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and Mounted on leaf 98 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Stone representing the Irish Church upsetting the Tory cart; Tories on the point of falling into the mud."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "(83)" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 83.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Carts & wagons, Accidents, and Falling
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Politicians try to hold up a huge scroll representing the Irish Church bill; a bishop tries to make the King hostile to the bill
Description:
Titles from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant are lightly scratched in lower left portion of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Design consists of two separate images side by side, each individually titled in letterpress below., and No. 38 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1832?]
Call Number:
832.00.00.42
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two groups of tailors battle each other. The group on the left, fighting under the "Journeymen Tailors Union for a fair renumeration of labour" banner, charge forward riding geese and using scissors as weapons; additional members fire bows and arrows from towers. The group on the right, fighting under the "Union of Master Tailors for a coninuance of tyranny low wages & profits 100 percent" banner, are well dressed and hang back in a defensive position; they use firearms, swords, and a shield bearing a pound sign ("£") as weapons
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of Charles Jameson Grant., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Text following title: When snip meets snip then comes the tug of war!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
