James Morison promoting his alternative medicines; satirised by five vignettes of a fox among geese. The central image is that of a street scene outside the London and British Colleges of Health: James Morison is presented as a fox standing on a box of 'Universal vegetable pills' surrounded by geese, who represent the public; he says "My 'Universal pills' are quite divine! If one don't do, you may take nine." and "Various humorous images of foxes and geese comprising (clock-wise from top left); a fox dressed as an eighteenth century fop offering a glass to a goose wearing a bonnet; a fox butcher, standing outside his shop and offering a dead goose to a vixen dressed in a shawl and bonnet, other poultry hanging outside; a fox in militray uniform and playing on a drum, leading a column of geese; a fox preaching to a congregation of geese; the large central image; a fox in a smart tailcoat advertising his 'Universal Vegetable Pills' to an interested gathering of geese; the 'British College of Health' and the 'London College of Health' beyond, the latter with two well-dressed foxes drinking on a balcony, observed by a crowd of geese (lettered below image "The Fox and Goose"; a short poem or song following)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched beneath large central image., Dimensions from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1859,0316.518., "Illustration to the third volume of Cruikshank's 'My Sketchbook' (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue., See further: Transactions of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, London 1974, v. 1, no. 3., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Proprietary remedies -- Morison's Pills., 1 print : etching ; sheet 12.5 x 15.6 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of all design and text apart from large central image and the title "The fox and the goose" beneath it.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Morison, James, 1770-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Alternative medicine, Quacks and quackery, Human behavior, Animal models, Patent medicines, Foxes, Geese, and Animals in human situations
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
Title from caption to most prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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
"Various humorous images comprising (clock-wise from top left); a lady in a ballgown; a portrait head of a gentleman in a very high collar and top hat holding a whip; a very thin and tall man, seated, dandling his child on his knee (lettered above "Daddy Longlegs"); a self-portrait of George Cruikshank; a study of the head of a bearded man; a seated girl, combing her hair; a man with wrinkled breeches, standing with his back to the viewer; a tall man with a pronounced hook nose (possibly the Duke of Wellington); an armoured man on horseback, turning in the saddle to his left, his sword in his hand; a country squire with his glass in his hand; a head of a man smoking a pipe; a portrait head of a bald man with an angry expression; a rural landscape; a fat sailor in naval uniform dancing a hornpipe (lettered below "Fat Jack"); a girl in an apron and bonnet; a young gentleman seated on a coach, the 'Dovor Express', and holding the reins and a whip (lettered below "Mr. Tommy Twiddlewhip playing at being a Coachman"); and a child seated on a chair and pretending to drive a team of horses; the large central image, a ragged family leaning against two Corinthian columns, the mother and father drunk, the little girl crying and the little boy with a sad expression; a large anthropomorphic copper still with an unpleasant expression on its face and a devil observing beyond (lettered below image "The Pillars of a Gin Shop."); illustration to the second volume of Cruikshank's "My Sketchbook" (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text beneath central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 17.8 x 25.3 cm.
"Various humorous images comprising (clock-wise from top left); a lady in a ballgown; a portrait head of a gentleman in a very high collar and top hat holding a whip; a very thin and tall man, seated, dandling his child on his knee (lettered above "Daddy Longlegs"); a self-portrait of George Cruikshank; a study of the head of a bearded man; a seated girl, combing her hair; a man with wrinkled breeches, standing with his back to the viewer; a tall man with a pronounced hook nose (possibly the Duke of Wellington); an armoured man on horseback, turning in the saddle to his left, his sword in his hand; a country squire with his glass in his hand; a head of a man smoking a pipe; a portrait head of a bald man with an angry expression; a rural landscape; a fat sailor in naval uniform dancing a hornpipe (lettered below "Fat Jack"); a girl in an apron and bonnet; a young gentleman seated on a coach, the 'Dovor Express', and holding the reins and a whip (lettered below "Mr. Tommy Twiddlewhip playing at being a Coachman"); and a child seated on a chair and pretending to drive a team of horses; the large central image, a ragged family leaning against two Corinthian columns, the mother and father drunk, the little girl crying and the little boy with a sad expression; a large anthropomorphic copper still with an unpleasant expression on its face and a devil observing beyond (lettered below image "The Pillars of a Gin Shop."); illustration to the second volume of Cruikshank's "My Sketchbook" (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text beneath central prominent design., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare.
Title from caption below image., Letter "J" in "C.J. Grant" etched backwards., and Publisher's advertisement below title: See Tregear's Catalogue of humours.
"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
"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
"Three vignetted designs, one above the other. [1] 'Dosing'. A couple in a sparsely furnished room sleep back to back in upright chairs, the woman with a fixed frown, and folded arms, her feet on the fender (right); the man snoring with head thrown back, one leg on a chair. An infant sleeps in a cradle (left), napkins dry before the fire. Empty plates, &c. cover the table. A cat (right) and dog (left) sleep beside their respective patrons. [2] 'Draming'. In a ramshackle garret a cobbler and his wife tipsily drink gin; he attempts to fill a glass, she holds out hers. A screaming and neglected infant lies on her lap; a bare-footed child stands by a table. All are ragged and ill-shod. The tools of the man's trade are in the room, bare except for table, empty tankard, and a bed turned up against the wall and covered with patchwork. [3] 'Drowning'. A man struggles in the water, screaming and desperately raising arms and legs towards a watchman, who leans over a rail bordering a canal or riverside terrace of houses, shouting unhelpfully, springing his rattle, and holding up his lantern. Other watchmen run up."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Three designs on one plate, each individually titled., and For earlier state lacking imprint and with "dramming" spelled "draming," cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, no. 15653.
