Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
May 1831.
Call Number:
831.05.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Grey stands in the center pulling back a curtain on the large painting (right) addressing the three men (probably Peel, Cumberland, and Wellington) who look on in amazement. Grey says, "Gentlemen this is a fine color'd picture representing Futurity. The idea of which was concieved [sic] by an injured people and painted by a new and promising artist. Reform." Reading from the left Peel looks at himself in the painting seated in a chair at a loom, "Why if there a'nt me at a spinning Jenny." Cumberland, hat flying off, looking at himself depicted in the painting on his backside, "And me dying on a dunghill." And Wellington closest to the painting that depicts him as a wounded soldier holding a broom and begging with his cap in hand, observes "And me begging." In the painting is a tower with the British and French flags the former with the year 1814, referencing the Wellington's successful campaign to end the Peninsular War
Description:
Title from text below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. by G. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Begging, Spinning machinery, and Paintings
Verse - "You gallants all I pray draw near ...", In this edition, the title has a semi-colon following "son", "beggar-wench" is spelled with a hyphen, and "Hull" is in italic capitals; the images are: left, a woman with her hand out; right, a man and a horse; there is no comma following "all" in the first line; the first two columns have the refrain "Fa, la, &c." printed below them; the colums are divided by columns of type-ornaments; the imprint is set on two lines, below column 4, with a row of type-ornaments (different from those used between the columns) above., The first woodcut is of a destitute woman reaching out toward a doorway; the second woodcut is of a well-dressed man standing by a black horse., Mounted on leaf 3. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Disguise, Man-woman relationships, Begging, Taverns (Inns), Robbery, Rogues and vagabonds, Horses, Doors & doorways, and Beggars
Title and date from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Sheet trimmed within platemark., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 5th. 1829. by S. Gans Southhampton Street
