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:
[1829?]
Call Number:
829.00.00.18+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Formerly published by M. Clark?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.75
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: Preserve my senses here's a great winding shed for sartain there's a death in the family!!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.77+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.78+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Pig-keeping., and Watermark: 1828.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.103
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Below title: Bless me what a terrible smell of rags a burning back'ards!!!, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.88
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., One line of verse above image: In mercy spare us if we do our best to make as much waste paper as the rest., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.104
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two lines of text below title: Fires, fires, the paper is full of fires, positively its not safe to travel now for one hardly nose [sic] when one's safe one moment from another!!!, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms:, and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18 November 1830]
Call Number:
830.11.18.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Political satire: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) leading his Tory government ministers in flight from its attack on the castle of 'Reform' (as inscribed to the Tricolore flag of liberty that flies from the tower).
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Mounted to 32 x 41.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 18, 1830, by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Military retreats, Soldiers, and British
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1834]
Call Number:
830.00.00.156
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A collection of social satirical images, visual puns, and vignettes. Possibly a portion of one of Grant's frontispieces
Description:
Title from captions below images, starting with the image on the upper left and reading across the top column., Date on publication based on printer's known active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Text following printmaker's statement: Author of MacLean & Alken's Sporting ideas, the (original) caricaturist a Monthly show up, Comic songs, Tregears flights of humor, Frontispieces to the Penny Mag. &c Comic almanac, Emigration & upward of 400 of the most popular caricatures of the day., and Mounted on blue paper. Cropped from an album page?
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr., corner of Sidney's Court ...
