Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century / Subject (Topic): Distress

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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].

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]

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]