"Four panels; first panel: woman talking to a policeman while pointing to her hanging husband; second panel: two policemen arresting a man at his door; third panel: beadle arresting an ill-looking man in front of the Station House; fourth panel: at Charing Cross policeman arresting a man pulling a cart full of children and with a child in his arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Illustrations of Sir Andrew Agnews new act
Description:
Title from text below image., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., 1 print : wood engraving on wove paper ; sheet 34.3 x 25.4 cm., Imperfect; trimmed with loss of series title and numbering from top edge and imprint from bottom edge., and Mounted to 39 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Each design captioned in ms.: Foreground; Background; Light & shade., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Artist attrubtion in ms. on sheet: S Martin del.
One of a series of British social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th-century middle-class Philadelphians, mainly the city's growing community of free African Americans. Influenced by an increasing fascination with American culture and a growing racism stemming from the abolition of slavery in England, the African American characters are depicted with grotesque features and manners, wearing outlandish clothes, and speaking in patois and malapropisms to be portrayed as ineptly attempting to mimic white high society. In this print the artist mocks African American vanity and the desire to look white: a well-dressed African American woman purchasing shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." The belle, portrayed with mannish features, wears a yellow bonnet with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair. Seated, she slightly lifts her red dress to inspect the black shoe that the African American sales clerk has just placed on her large foot. She believes the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The kneeling sales clerk attempts to persuade her that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." Another clerk with a row of boots behind him is seen in the background performing as a store sign states, the "Best Jet Blacking Sold Here." On the left, an African American couple is seen walking passed the store
Alternative Title:
New shoes
Description:
Title from caption below image. Series title appears at top of image., Prints based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American women, Afro-Americans, Clothing & dress, and Shoe stores
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1833.
Call Number:
833.04.00.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A cat is hanging from a tree outside St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street, London, condemned by a man dressed as a Quaker, with a tartan cloak. The on-lookers call him a 'Merry Andrew' (i.e. a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior), believing him to be a resident of the building behind (renamed St Andrew's). The Quaker has a number of petitions and bills under his arm. Between 1830 and 1847 the M.P. for Wigtownshire, Sir Andrew Agnew, introduced four bills to the House of Commons attempting to enforce the better Observance of the Sabbath. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, Hangings (Executions), Occupations, and Street children
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two politicians with followers fight for the Woolsack Chair
Alternative Title:
Set-to for the speakership
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Mounted on green wove paper backing., and No. 75.
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:
A caricature satirising the prohibition of working on Sunday as proposed in Sir Andrew Agnew's Sabbath Observance Bill: thugs terrorize honest Englishmen into observing the sabbath
Alternative Title:
Coersion for England
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. 1 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:
A Puritan harangues a cat hung from a tree while urchins stand around
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., Imperfect; trimmed with loss of series title and numbering. Series statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 2 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:
Hypocritical puritans and upright citizens drink and make merry on a Sunday
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., Imperfect; chewed in lower right corner with partial loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and No. 3 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:
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. In the five lines etched at the top of image, we learn that he has no food or tobacco and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil' (i.e., a bearded 'bobby' or a Metropolitan Policeman, a member of the force founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829) who can be seen through a window with a cracked pane. John Bull complainant about "Observing the Sabbath with a vengeance" is a response to Sir Andrew Agnew, the Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire, attempt to enforce better Observance of the Sabbath through the introduction of four bills to the House of Commons between 1830 and 1847. On his third attempt Charles Dickens wrote 'Sunday Under Three Heads' (1836), a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. Agnew left Parliament in 1837, ending the campaign
Alternative Title:
Englishman's fireside!
Description:
Title from text below image., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Five lines of text above image: Here's a pretty pass things are come to! This is observing the Sabbath with a vengeance! ..., Lower left corner chewed., and No. 4 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Agnew, Andrew, Sabbath legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Distress, Interiors, Police, and Starvation
"Four panels; first panel: woman talking to a policeman while pointing to her hanging husband; second panel: two policemen arresting a man at his door; third panel: beadle arresting an ill-looking man in front of the Station House; fourth panel: at Charing Cross policeman arresting a man pulling a cart full of children and with a child in his arms."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Illustrations of Sir Andrew Agnews new act
Description:
Title from text below image., 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 left corner chewed., and No. 5 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
