Travellers see strange things logic without his specs
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Imprint statement erased from sheet., 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:
830.00.00.104
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.
A sleeping man on his back in a bed, is attached to a machine that is undressing him, pulling his pants off and his arms out of his sleeves, as other parts of the machine prepare to pull his nightcap and sleeping shirt over his head
Alternative Title:
Apparatus to undress and cover up when sleepy
Description:
Ttitle etched below image., Series title etched above 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.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Subject (Topic):
Automation, Beds, Machinery, Sleepwear, and Undressing
Title from heading near top of sheet., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., 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: Posters (advertisements) on walls -- Pills -- Quack medicine -- Wigs -- Rules of the Fleet and Bench -- Prison discipline., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Mounted to 25 x 31 cm.
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, 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 headings: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Print numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 102.
Title from caption below image., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of sheet., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1, 1802, by Willm. Holland, No. 11, Cockspur Street (removed from Oxford Street)
Title from heading above image., Evidence of text burnished from plate., Caption below image: D--nd unpleasant situation this, that fellow will catch me presently to a dead certainty, lucky I found these crutches tho., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief debtors' prisons, 'Bench' and 'Fleet', and a framed table of 'House Fees. Fire 0 2.6. Candles 0.2.6. Bed 0.10.6. Warming do. 0.1.0. Breakfast 0.7.6. Eggs 0.2.0. Total £1.7.0. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date in imprint burnished out. Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.