Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four politicians arrive at the "Mock Reform Isle" after crossing the sea from the "Reform Isle".
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., and No. 72.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1833]
Call Number:
833.05.09.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading at top of print., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sheet trimmed with some loss of imprint statement., and Mounted to 32 x 24 cm.
A sheet with 25 vignettes in roughly five rows, each with a humorous or satirical scene or a visual pun and each captioned with names of trades, industry, or arts. At the center of the page is a caricature of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham in his long, curl wig and a collar, holding a broom in his left hand, with the caption "The Title page and Index" below. One of many such frontispieces of the period mocking the political and educational movements bringing information and knowledge to the working classes
Description:
Title from text at top of image., A publication date between 1833 and 1835 is suggested by Matthew Crowther; see his post entitled "Rediscovering W. Newman, fl. c. 1834-35" from The Printshop Window website (theprintshopwindow.wordpress.com; accessed 13 December 2023)., and An imitation of two satirical frontispieces by C.J. Grant for the Penny Magazine; the first is tentatively dated to October 1832 in the British Museum catalogue, and the second is dated 9 May 1833 on the print. See no. 17285 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9. See also British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1892,1021.4.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside and Printed by R. Redman
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
July 25, 1833.
Call Number:
Print00775
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. The twenty five scenes all bear legends above them: "A burning inflamation!" "A galloping consumption!" "The dropsy!" "The scarlet fever!" "The cramp!" "Throw physic to the dogs. I'll none of it. Shakespear." "The gripes!" "Miss carrying!" "The stomach complaint!" "Very ill" " Sally our doctor said this morning chat I never look'd better in all my life." "Worse" "worser" "mercy on me, they say I am but a shadow to what I was" "worserer" "the smallpox" "shortness of memory!" "Indoor patient!" "Outdoor patients!" "The scurvy!" "A difficulty in breathing!" "The hooping cough!" "A mortification!" "Hypochondriacal! " "The last scene of all. Grave & gay, a coffin fit, grievings a folly, so let us be jolly. Rum ti iddidy iddidy rumti iddity I dow"."--Wellcome Collection online catalogue
Description:
Title from text above image. and The digit "4" in "54" in publisher's street address is reversed.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1833?]
Call Number:
833.00.00.10
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading at top of sheet., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Numerous designs on sheet each individually captioned: Temperence see page 30; The schoolmaster at home!; The schoolmaster abroad ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist, lithographer
Published / Created:
[1833?]
Call Number:
835.00.00.207
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from heading above design., Description based on British Museum impression., Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Numerous small designs, many of them individually titled., The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and artist and printmaker signatures., and Mounted to 33 x 27 cm.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"John Bull pushing old politicians into a machine which grind them and turn them into young and honest people."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in bottom center portion of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "123" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 123.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Grinding machines, Older people, Young adults, Scepters, Telescopes, Pitchforks, and Ladders
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Emaciated and shaven-headed paupers treated as slaves by cruel overseers: adults beating hemp and children picking rope in the foreground, others in the background manacled to the wall or hanging from the ceiling, tied up by their feet and hands; to right, a manager with a scourge seizing an elderly man, and a man pulling a cart, which he says is full of dead infants to be sold to surgeons; to left, a manager turning away the starving poor who beg to be let in."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Text below title: Dedicated to those two ugly old women, Mothers Brougham and Martineau., Asterisk in title is explained by note below image, in lower right: * For workhouse, read slave house., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 57.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton-Street, Clare-Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almshouses, Children, Forced labor, British, Punishment & torture, Poor persons, Law and legislation, Poor laws, and Political satire, English
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Jack cutting the bean stalk leading to the fall of politicians with money bags and precious objects."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack and the beanstalk
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Ten lines of text below title: In the days of King Blubberhead, Billy the Silly, there lived an old woman, y'clept Bull, who had a foster-son, y'clept Jack Rouseall, a rare blustering blade ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and No. 98.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vines, Axes, Falling, Money, Urns, and Chalices
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:
Mother Bull and John Bull stand with a gun at the window; a cat with human features stands on the roof of the house next door
Description:
Title from item., Signature of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant is lightly scratched in bottom center portion of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Lower right corner chewed., and No. 27 in a collection bound in blue wrappers.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
