Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Caption continues: ... Plough boy, noa, mother, I hopes I never shall.
Title from caption below image., Four lines of verse below title: If e-'er you see a parson tall, some six feet two at least ..., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1834.
Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: City life -- Window cleaning -- Horseback riding -- City streets -- Children -- Lamp lighting.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Caption continues: ... here's the pie & sandwiches I want to go to Hurn Bay.
Title from caption below image. and Text below title: O Doctor I am very bad, you see all my beautiful statues, curious figures, and numberless curiosities, now my only comfort, you may believe me they every now and then turn blue, wait awhile and you will see, they almost frighten me to death.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, November 11th, 1835 for the propietor by Messers. Ackermann, Strand; C. Tilt, Fleet Street;Reeves & Sons, Cheapside, Riddle & Co., P.N. Row, and Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and T. Bird, 134 Oxford Street
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London, 1836?], p. 73., A reduced copy of no. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Academic costume., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 116.
"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 those of a little boy in the doorway (right), one hand on the handle, bowing, or stooping, low. The room is boarded and bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
1st Position and First position
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., A symbol or monogram comprised of an elaborate double 'X' precedes Cruikshank's signature., and Publication date erased from sheet.
"The dancing-master plays his kit and dances, while a very small boy in hat and wide trousers dances a hornpipe, right arm above his head, a cane under his left arm. A tiny girl stands (right) distressed at her position: she holds a backboard against her shoulders, her heels are together, feet in a straight line, the first position, as in No. 14436."---British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sailors hornpipe
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date erase from sheet. Date from British Museum catalogue., and Publication date erased from sheet.
