Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of threatening operative builders' masters with the features of beasts walk towards the operative builders and brandish a declaration to be signed
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant, with the "J" in "C.J.G." written backwards, in lower center of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 52.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
"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., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 17.8 x 25.3 cm.
"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.
Title from items., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Printed on one side only with imprint at foot of each sheet; most with horizontal orientation., and A collection of 52 prints bound in plain blue wrappers. Some loss due to chewed corners; more loss due to trimmed edges. Housed in a blue buckram box with spine title: The political drama. No. 47 bound in before no. 46. Nos. 52-64 lacking, stubs remaining. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Pictorial, Caricatures and cartoons, and Political satire, English
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:
Sun and planets point rays towards three gentlemen in the center; on the right, a gentleman knocks at a door and man answers from the window
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., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 8 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:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dancing contest between the Queen, who carries the King on her shoulders, and Lord Brougham; John Bull and an aristocrat present the show
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., and No. 51.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, 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 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two coaches conveying respectively Conservatives and Liberals; relative drivers and passengers arguing with the ones belonging to the rival party."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rival omnibuses
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in center left portion design, engraved on the driver's seat of the leftmost coach., 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 "114" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., and No. 114.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, and Passengers
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:
Two groups of politicians perform on two different stages and try to attract the crowd
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., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 21 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:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Bull and politicians play musical instruments with the King as conductor
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., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 42 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:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Mongolfier with the shape like a sausage; Queen sitting on the top of it; politicians, King and Clergy on the back."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Adelaide aerial ship
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., Text below title: Being a voyage volante to the land of rags and rubbish for the express purpose of engaging fresh German troops ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "97" in brown ink in lower left corner of design., Mounted on green paper backing., and No. 97.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
