Title from heading above image., Signed in image on placard: '"1851" by Henry Matthew and George Cruikshank.', Lettering on banner displayed in design: Peace & goodwill to all the world. God save the Queen and Prince Albert., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above image., Date of publication based on dates of the Great Exhibition: 1 May to 15 October, 1851., Text below image: This is all I have ma'm. I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a foreign nobleman., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text above design., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Seven small images on sheet, each individually captioned: Author craft manufactures sent in as specimens of typography (to advertise themselves) rejected as no space was alotted for trunk linings; Book bound by a journeyman carpenter ..., and Seventh numbered plate in a series of at least 8 etched plates.
Title from letterpress caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Wood engraving with title and two columns of prose in letterpress below, on a broadside., Text below title begins: Intemperance is a wily destroyer; never satisfied with the ruin it has wrought, it is ever seeking ..., and No. III in a series of five temperance placards; publisher's advertisement for others in the series printed at bottom of sheet.
Publisher:
Printed for W. & F.G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; William Tweedie, 337, Strand
Title from caption below images., Numerous small designs divided into two groups by a horizontal line, the six designs towards the bottom having individual captions etched below., Text above designs on bottom part of plate: These six subjects are from Kaulbach's designs illustrating Goethe's fable of "Reynard the fox.", Text among designs on top part of plate: Copied by permission of H. Ploucquet, preparator to the Royal Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on date of The Maine Law (or "Maine Liquor Law"), which was passed on 2 June 1851., Text below title: Grand Papa. "But for seventy years, my child, I have found the moderate use of the good things of this life has done me good." Young hopeful teeotaller. "All a mistake Granpa', total abstinence is the thing. Look at me! I've not tasted wine or beer for years!", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 49 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Temperance, Girls, Clocks & watches, Grandparents, Pipes (Smoking), and Smoking
"Pitt, very thin and elongated, poises on one toe on a tight-rope; he holds a long balancing-pole in both hands, on one end (left) sits the Sultan, on the other (right) Catherine II. The Turk, whose end of the pole is slightly the lower, clutches it desperately, saying, "My dear Billy, do help me to make another push, & I'll give you - half of my Seraglio". The fat Empress sits with her hands on her hips; she wears a crown, in her right hand is a sceptre, in her left a paper inscribed 'New Russian Conquests'. She says "Both Billy - the Flat, & yourself may do your worst you circumcised dog! get me down if you can! - I'll match you all, & swallow Thousands more!" Pitt stands with his head raised arrogantly in profile to the right; he says, "The old Hag cannot move me, & Seraglios cannot bribe me: - I have nothing to do with these matters - my Pole will always remain level - ". On the ground beneath the rope stands a dwarfish Sheridan (right) in profile to the left, grotesquely caricatured as a clown; he wears trousers and long sleeves which cover his hands and hang down. He says: "O! the Devil! the Devil! The Cow leaps over the Moon! And if I could once get up on the Rope, Lord! I'd fill my Pockets soon: - I mean, I would soon bring her down: fol der lol, fol der ol"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Posterity of the immortal Chatham turned posture master
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with added plate numbering. Cf. No. 7846 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Date of printing based on that of Bohn's Suppressed plates., Plate probably from: Bohn, ii, 8, Suppressed plates., Text following title: Vide Sherridans speech., Sheet trimmed to plate mark, and the number "8" has likely been erased from sheet., and Temporary local subject terms: Circus performances: walking on rope -- Allusion to Russian conquests -- Clowns -- Allusion to Sheridan's speech in the House of Commons, 15 April, 1791 -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.
Publisher:
Publishd. April 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
