Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Caption continues: ... here's the pie & sandwiches I want to go to Hurn Bay.
Title from caption below image. and Text below title: O Doctor I am very bad, you see all my beautiful statues, curious figures, and numberless curiosities, now my only comfort, you may believe me they every now and then turn blue, wait awhile and you will see, they almost frighten me to death.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, November 11th, 1835 for the propietor by Messers. Ackermann, Strand; C. Tilt, Fleet Street;Reeves & Sons, Cheapside, Riddle & Co., P.N. Row, and Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and T. Bird, 134 Oxford Street
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from unverified data in local card catalog record., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the plate was published., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate also published in: Caricatures / drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London, 1836?], p. 73., A reduced copy of no. 5804 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Academic costume., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 116.
"A dancing-master in profile to the left, playing his kit, faces a little girl, who stands firmly, her feet in the first position, heels back to back, toes pointing almost at r. angles with her profile. His feet are also in the first position, as are those of a little boy in the doorway (right), one hand on the handle, bowing, or stooping, low. The room is boarded and bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
1st Position and First position
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., A symbol or monogram comprised of an elaborate double 'X' precedes Cruikshank's signature., and Publication date erased from sheet.
"The dancing-master plays his kit and dances, while a very small boy in hat and wide trousers dances a hornpipe, right arm above his head, a cane under his left arm. A tiny girl stands (right) distressed at her position: she holds a backboard against her shoulders, her heels are together, feet in a straight line, the first position, as in No. 14436."---British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sailors hornpipe
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date erase from sheet. Date from British Museum catalogue., and Publication date erased from sheet.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1835]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"First panel: bored politician with feet on the table dealing with the drunken dragoons without giving the matter proper consideration; second panel: O'Connel protecting himself with a shield from three witches with politicians' features."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue: ca. 1833. Date based on the subject of the print: The Wolverhampton riots of 1835., Design consists of two panels side by side, each individually titled., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below title of first panel: Taken by an eye-witness, who saw and heard the above through the key-hole., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "92" in brown ink in lower left corner of first panel of design., and No. 92.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Dandies, British, Soldiers, Cavalry, Top hats, Monocles, Shields, and Witches
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1835]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Drunk soldiers on horses shooting women and children."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Drunken dragoons shooting old women and children at Wolverhampton by way of keeping their hand in
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date from the British Museum online catalogue: ca. 1833. Date of 1835 suggested based topic of print: the 1835 Wolverhampton riot., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Two lines of text below title: And yet public sympathy would abolish the lash from the backs of such cowardly, disgusting man-butchers ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "91" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 91.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Cavalry, Intoxication, Shooting, Older people, and Children
Title from caption below image., Text below title: It's devotees destroy themselves, it's progress is marked with desolation, misery and crime., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A bare foot, inflamed and hideously swollen, rests on a cushion. The demon of gout, snorting fire, spreads himself over the affected part, digging in barbed fangs and sharp teeth. His barbed and serrated tail waves above him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and A copy of Gillray's print that was published in May 1799 by H. Humphrey. See no. 9448 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
