Title from caption below image., Attribution below imprint statement: Ducôté & Stephen's lithogy. 70 St. Martin's Lane., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A satire on a working man's interest in reading: On a city street, a laborer with a large load of furniture -- desk, chairs, brooms, etc. -- is distracted with the paper he is reading and hits a gentleman in the face with the leg of the desk
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Title from caption below image., Approximate publication date from similar print in untitled series., and On same sheet: A bite at last!!!! That's two to day Gran-par!!
Publisher:
Pubd. by James Smith, 14 Wellington St., Goswell St. Road
Title from caption below image., Approximate publication date from similar print in untitled series., and On same sheet: See any Sam? Why there's one down at the bread already!!
Publisher:
Pubd. by James Smith, 14 Wellington St., Goswell St. Road
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1834]
Call Number:
834.08.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to four designs in each row, individually titled. The pairs are visual puns, e.g., starting at the top row from the left, "A box at the opera" shows two men fist fighting; "A rain beau" shows a couple walking in the rain, he not sharing the one umbrella; a man with has hooks for arms addresses a small group, "To arms, to arms -- Brave boys". The second row, the images show domestic scenes of various social classes, including clerks, dustmen, chimney sweeps, all playing instruments or singing, titled "The musical mania" who woun'd'nt have a piano." The third row "Small profits & quick returns" shows a large man hitting a thinner man in the face outside a printshop window; "The light guitar" shows a red-nosed man smoking a large pipe and holding a guitar under his arm standing with his back to the blazing fire, unaware that his guitar is burning; in "Standing his ground" a soldier's legs are shot off by a cannon ball. The fourth row contains four scenes: "A Hottentot & a Holterman" depicting a Black man and a Chinese man; "80 in the shade" shows an old man sitting on a bench under an arbor; "Two Beaks" two stick-figures of a judge and a soldier; "Little Andrew" is drawn as a man with no legs on a platform with wheels; and finally, "Ass matical" is illustrated with an image of a sick ass with scarfs over his head and throat, sneezing
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left., Series title and number at top of sheet. Dated below series title: August 1st, 1834. Continued every fortnight., and "6d, plain. 1s/ cold."--Upper right above design.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, & sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, M.A. Organ, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Title from heading above image., Artist's attribution continues: ... who particularly requests that his friends & the public will observe that he has not any connexion with the works put forth by Mr. Kidd of Chandos Street, expect "The gentleman in black" published some years ago and that is the only transaction he ever had or ever intends to have with the aforesaid Mr. Kidd the publisher of Chandos Street, West Strand., Caption below central image: Most approved method of pulling a fellows nose (as practised by St. Dunstan), Probably from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Pl. 1 no. 5., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
