"Talleyrand, using a stick, hobbles along (left to right). His club-foot is not shown as in caricatures by Gillray and others. Palmerston, very erect, walks beside but slightly behind him, his left arm in the other's crooked right arm; he stares befor...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by A. Ducôté, succr. to C. Motte, 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 and Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ambassadors, French, Government officials, British, and Staffs (Sticks)
A man hangs from a windowsill on the outside of a building, escaping the flames from a fire seen in the upper left. He is disheveled and only half-dressed: his jacket is draped over his shoulder, his suspenders dangle between his legs, his wig is on b...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 28th, 1832, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by Meifred Lemercier & Co., 24, Leicester Sqre
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868. and Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Windows, Fire fighting, Crowds, Birds, and Birdhouses
"Two men engaged in a fist-fight in centre: the one to left (Daniel O'Connell) punching the other (Lord Althorp); to left, a man holding up a bottle in his left hand (Richard Lalor Shiel); a man standing to far left watching in excitement (Edward Sout...
Alternative Title:
Fancy sketch : showing a select specimen of the cross-palpable
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782-1845, Sheil, Richard Lalor, 1791-1851, Ruthven, Edward Southwell,, Monteagle of Brandon, Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron, 1790-1866, Hatherton, Edward John Walhouse Littleton, Baron, 1791-1863, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, 1776-1869, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Inglis, Robert Harry, Sir, 1786-1855
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Fighting, Bottles, Clocks & watches, Spectators, and Conversation
A well dressed man sits in a carriage next to a gruff looking coach driver holding a whip; the former looks through his glass at the driver and directs him to drive to the Old Bailey
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Whips, Dandies, British, and Hand lenses
A young man wearing patched trousers stands next to a mile marker, bundled up against the cold with a scarf and hat. His hands have gone through the pockets of his long jacket, and are seen protruding beneath
"A scene on the Steyne, with the Pavilion as a background, and (left) the sea, with cliffs. Lord Conyngham, with a hideous profile, walks (right to left) with a lady on each arm. On the left arm is Lady Conyngham, as broad as she is tall, looking over...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 9th May 1822 by S.W. Fores, Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Huntly, Elizabeth, Marchioness of, 1799-1839, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Obesity, Clothing & dress, Bonnets, Shawls, Coastlines, and Official residences
"The head of Talleyrand with long straggling spider's legs, looks from a dark recess surrounded by a web, towards a fly with Palmerston's head. The latter (left), in profile to the right, looks up at Talleyrand whose face, hair, and cravat form a ligh...
Alternative Title:
Venerable spider and a buzzing fly
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and A. Ducoté's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 and Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Ambassadors, French, Government officials, British, Spiders, Flies, and Cobwebs
Depiction of a statue of three men grappling with a snake, the arm of the central figure inscribed "Bloody Brutal" and the pedestal inscribed "LAOCOON." The snake's body extends off the pedestal to the left, with the front of it forming a male human f...
Alternative Title:
Laocoon
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and A. Ducôte's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Topic):
Sculpture, Snakes, Artists' brushes, Pails, Signs (Notices), Donkeys, and Bowing
A man sits in a chair at center, dressed in wooly sheep's clothing from the neck down; his nose and chin are suggestive of the Duke of Wellington, and a speech bubble from his mouth reads "Reform." Eight other men (politicians?) are in the room with h...
Description:
Title from text etched above and below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Protheroe, Edward Davis, approximately 1798-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Reform, Sheep, Signs (Notices), and Doors & doorsways
A man sits in a chair at center, dressed entirely in wooly sheep's clothing but with a human head in profile visible beneath the sheep's head; his nose and chin are suggestive of the Duke of Wellington, and a speech bubble from his mouth reads "Reform...
Description:
Title from text etched above and below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Protheroe, Edward Davis, approximately 1798-1852.
William IV and Queen Adelaide entertain guests at Windsor Castle. A woman on the left leans over and says to the smiling Queen, "I'm afraid your little Majesty has had too much Noyau," to which Adelaide replies, "Oh! I do love it so!" The King, whose ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by Maguire & Co., 9 Brydges St.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, and Windsor Castle,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Entertaining, Guests, Crowns, and Snuff
"AN INTRODUCTION. (16533) Below the title: 'An Honourable member wish'd an address to his Majesty praying the appointment of a General Fast'. A bland M.P. bows amiably, his left hand under that of a distressed artisan, the right hand extended towards...
Description:
Titles from text beneath the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835, Denman, Thomas Denman, Baron, 1779-1854., and Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
"ARTICLES TO BE TAXED (16864) See also British Museum Satires 16591, &c. [1] 'Large Bonnets & Small Waists'. A lady (three-quarter length) wearing a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with ostrich-feathers, and much larger than an umbrella, with an hour-glass ...
Description:
Titles from text above and below the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqr
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Key, John, 1794-1858 and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
A barefoot man holding a tankard rides on the back of a sow, heading to the right. Behind them on the left, another man has fallen backwards losing his hat, the sow's tail having come off in his hand
A man holding a fishing rod sits beside a body of water, gleefully looking out at whatever he's caught (not visible, being off the right side of the frame). Behind him, the head and shoulders of an angry looking man are visible above a fence; this sec...
"A man fallen into a hole on the ice with a sign 'R.H.S. Dangerous', trying to get out, looking another on the left for help, his friend looking back at him and running to the opposite direction."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Ice, Bodies of water, Accidents, and Signs (Notices)
"A man in the character of Cincinnatus (Sir Charles Napier) standing at left, holding a plough, in conversation with a man, standing at centre left (Duke of Wellington), speaking for a group of men in the characters of the Senators (East India Company...
Alternative Title:
Prophecy fulfilled
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published March 21st, 1849, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed at 70 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Napier, Charles, 1786-1860, Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius, approximately 529 B.C.-approximately 430 B.C., and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Business people, and Plows
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--Briti...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--Briti...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
"An old hag sits in a carved chair with a gothic back by a vast open fire-place (right), with sticks blazing on the hearth. She uses a large knife to slice at one of her distorted toes. Beside her are a tub and scrubbing-brush and a large cat."--Briti...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Surgery, Podiatry, Knives, Fireplaces, Older people, Pails, Slippers, Brooms & brushes, and Cats
Interior scene, with Syntax seated on a bench in front of a fireplace; he reads from his notebook in an animated fashion while the men and women around him nod off or yawn
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 1, 1815, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"Syntax seated on the horse Grizzle, sketching the overcast Lake District scene in front of him, Grizzle grazing precipitously at the water's edge, a fisherman with dog, rod and basket standing behind him at right, trying to attract his attention, a p...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feby. 1, 1815, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
A man in tattered clothing, holding a club in his left hand, threatens a scarecrow with a pistol. A fence and a crescent moon are seen in the background
Alternative Title:
Stand and deliver! : When I sees any one better off than myself I have a right to go shares
Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below. Several images depict people toasting or consuming alcoholic beverages; many of the captions are the sentiments of toasts
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
Published by O. Hodgson, Cloth Fair, London and Straker's litho., George Yd., Lombard St.
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
Maidment N555 no. 2 Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentot...
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
1835.
Call Number:
835.00.00.208
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-one small images, all of them individually titled, showing satirical scenes commenting on British social and political issues, many with visual puns, and depictions of stereotypes, both ethnic and social: dustman, Hottentot...
Description:
Title from text at top of design.
Publisher:
Joseph Thomas, No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill and Printed by S. Straker, George Yd., Lombard St.
Newman, W., active approximately 1834-1835, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1833 and 1835]
Call Number:
Maidment N555 no. 1 Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of twenty-six small images, each with a caption below except for the center image, which has its caption "-- the CENTRE of gravity" within top portion of image
Description:
Title from text at top of design; letter "z" in "Magazine" is reversed.
Publisher:
Publish'd at No. 26 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, where may be had a great variety
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
Feby. 24th, 1835.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 15 Box 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Design consisting of thirty-six small images, each individually captioned below, arranged in nine rows of four. The images are comic scenes illustrating the captions, which might be song titles or lyrics
Description:
Title from text within banner at top of design.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Drake, 12 Houghton St., Clare Market and S. Lingham, printer
William IV, holding his royal robes under his arm and carrying his crown and mace in a bag by his side, talks with an unamused coach driver who says "My fare's a crown there's my number if you don't like it." Behind them waits a coach flying a French ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
T. McLean and Ducôté & Sephen
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
Subject (Topic):
Carriage & coaches, Coach drivers, Abandoned buildings, Barrels, Preachers, Ships, Soldiers, British, Flags, and French
Full length depiction of the Duke of Wellington, in uniform with hat in his right hand and sword at his left side, left hand extended and a look of distress on his face
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Distress, Daggers & swords, and Hats
Full length depiction of the Duke of Wellington, in uniform with hat in his right hand and sword at his left side, left hand extended and a look of distress on his face
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Tregear, 123 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Distress, Daggers & swords, and Hats
"Archbishop Markham, dressed partly as a bishop, partly as a soldier. He wears a mitre decorated with a skull and cross-bones; his surplice is kilted up to show boots and breeches; his lawn sleeves appear through a sleeveless military tunic. Round his...
Description:
Title from heading and beginning of verses etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Ocr. 28, 177 [sic], by MDarly, 120 New Bond Street & 39 Strand
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1830]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 2 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Key and Claudius Stephen Hunter, the former with the head of a donkey and the latter with the head of a horse, stand on either side of an unidentified man at center, who stares straight at the viewer and looks perplexed. The animal-headed figures...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Key, John, 1794-1858 and Hunter, Claudius Stephen, 1775-1851
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
Jany. 10th, 1834.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 14 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men in ragged clothing eat soup from a single large bowl on a table. The man on the left has risen out of his seat and holds up his fork, from which hangs the wig of the man sitting across the table, who wears a bandana covering his bald head. The...
Two oddly shaped men ride oddly shaped horses. The tiny man on the right, who has extremely short legs, rides on a tall and elegant horse. The larger man on the left, thin with long legs and a very long neck, rides on a short and dainty horse. Both me...
Alternative Title:
I say Jack we shall astonish the natives to day I warrant, it's not every day they see such sportsmen as us and I say Jack we shall astonish the natives today I warrant, it's not every day they see such sportsmen as us
Two men stand and converse as they attempt to load their shotguns, the stocks of both their guns resting on the ground. The man on the right looks over at the other man and lets powder drop from his open hand; his shot pouch is seen on the ground in f...
A short barber on the right offers a chair to a tall dandy on the left, who smokes a cigar and holds a tasseled cane under his right arm; the dandy has long hair and sticks out his bearded chin towards the barber
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Barbers, Staffs (Sticks), and Beards
Two women sit in chairs facing one another, discussing the animal costs of fashion. The woman on the left wears a bonnet and has one hand inside the large muff on her lap
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Two women sit in chairs facing one another, discussing the animal costs of fashion. The woman on the left wears a bonnet and has one hand inside the large muff on her lap
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
A man with a broom, standing upright in a dignified manner on the left, offers his card to an angry man who has his fist raised; the belligerent man is being restrained by a third man on the far right. The altercation is occurring on a street lined wi...
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published at 26 Bride Lane, Fleet St.
Subject (Topic):
Fighting, Anger, Brooms & brushes, Carts & wagons, and Whips
A young maid holding a steaming pots talks with an older woman sitting in a chair, the latter wrapped in a blanket and toasting bread over an unseen fire; a tea set rests on a table in the background
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler
"A hopeful young girl wearing pattens, leaning confidently on the counter of a general shop, saying 'If you please Mr Tomkins to give my mother change for sixpence, and she will send you the sixpence next week.', the shop owner leaning down to her wit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
Subject (Topic):
Counters, Stores & shops, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Girls
"A hopeful young girl wearing pattens, leaning confidently on the counter of a general shop, saying 'If you please Mr Tomkins to give my mother change for sixpence, and she will send you the sixpence next week.', the shop owner leaning down to her wit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
Subject (Topic):
Counters, Stores & shops, People associated with commercial & service activities, and Girls
A disheveled beggar on the left, clutching a club in his right hand, holds out his hat to a well dressed man on the right, who reaches into his pocket for money
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Williams, 129 Strand and Madeley, lith., 3 Wellington St.
Six vignette images, arranged in two rows of three, that tell the story of the "idle 'prentice" from William Hogarth's "Industry and Idleness" series of prints. Three lines of verse are printed above and below each vignette, each stanza ending with th...
An Irishman, wearing tattered clothing and holding a cudgel, converses with three well dressed men at a table in front of a poor box, the words "Guardians of the Poor" faintly visible on the wall behind them. The Irishman appears obstinate, and the th...
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Poor persons, Poor boxes, Charity, and Writing materials
Six vignette images, arranged in two rows of three, that tell the story of the "industrious 'prentice" from William Hogarth's "Industry and Idleness" series of prints. Three lines of verse are printed above and below each vignette, each stanza ending ...
Description:
Title from text above images.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Apprentices, Parables, Churches, City council members, and Carriages & coaches
"Street-scene, three musicians in the street outside a house at left; a young man at centre playing a violin and perhaps singing, another at left blowing on pipes, at right a man playing a cello, several figures gathered round them, three young women ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Samuel Leigh
Subject (Topic):
Street musicians, City & town life, Violins, Violoncellos, Panpipes, Singing, and Windows
A thin dandy chats with a rotund man who holds his belly with both hands. A restaurant under the sign "Williams's" is visible in the background on the left, through the window of which a man can be seen carving a roast
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark Street, Soho
A thin dandy chats with a rotund man who holds his belly with both hands. A restaurant under the sign "Williams's" is visible in the background on the left, through the window of which a man can be seen carving a roast
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark Street, Soho
A man lies on his back in a ditch, his shoulders propped up against one wall of the ditch and his feet resting on the wall opposite; his hat sits on the ground beside his head. He takes aim with his shotgun at a small bird on the branch above him
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Ditches, Rifles, Hats, and Birds
Interior of the fore-cabin of a passenger steamboat, with numerous men and women (and one boy) seen either sitting at tables or standing around; many of the passengers are drinking or smoking. Three musicians play instruments near the center of the de...
Alternative Title:
Sunday in the fore-cabin of Gravesend steamer Meteor. The return to London, 6 P.M.
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
G.W. Kent and Co.
Subject (Topic):
Steamboats, Passengers, Eating & drinking, Smoking, Musical instruments, and Windows
A satire on British reform efforts using the story of Io, who was abducted by Jupiter and changed into heifer. The figure of Mercury, wearing winged sandals and hat and holding two horns, stands on the right looking down at a large sleeping man with g...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. and Mercury (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Cows, Newspapers, Boxes, and Clubs (Weapons)
"METROPOLITAN POLITICAL UNION (16079) O'Connell leans over a railing, addressing a braying crowd below, all with asses' heads. Hunt stands behind him, holding up a pot of his blacking (see British Museum Satires No. 16575). O'C: 'Brothers, for ye are...
Description:
Titles etched above or below the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Schwarzenberg, Felix, Fürst zu, 1800-1852, Digby, Jane Elizabeth, 1807-1881, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, Clanricarde, Ulick de Burgh, Earl of, 1604-1657., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Donkeys, Graffiti, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, Rain, Frogs, Taxes, Reform, Corsets, Adultery, Faces, Veterans' benefits, Disabled veterans, and Amputees
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1832]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 18 Box 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven rows of individually-titled designs on one sheet folded in half to create two pages. Starting with the largest design at the top of the first page, "Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory" shows men in military uniform laughing and dr...
Alternative Title:
Bastards in their glory
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using caption above design at top of first page.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, news agent, Chancery Lane, also by C.N. Lewis, bookseller & news agent, 6 Market St., Manchester, & by Ross & Nightingale, at the office of the Liverpool Chronicle, 9 Lord St., Liverpool, & of most booksellers & newsmen in town & country
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Eating & drinking, Whipping, Soldiers, Fire extinguishers, Stoves, Liberty cap, Boats, Bags, Monsters, Noses, Singing, Kings, Queens, Writing materials, Sausages, Devil, Pitchforks, Older people, Gluttony, Obesity, Hunting, Stomach aches, and Horses
"A man standing in a door to left, wearing a dressing gown and night cap (Lord Brougham); a man in centre, his left arm outstretched, pointing at three men standing to right, the one in front holding a piece of paper, and the one next to him in foregr...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducôté & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Sleepwear, Bowing, and Doors & doorways
A man holding a warming pan and a bottle converses with a woman inside a home. An open door is seen on the left; a birdcage and a picture hang on the wall in the background
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Doors & doorways, Bottles, and Birdcages
A man holding a warming pan and a bottle converses with a woman inside a home. An open door is seen on the left; a birdcage and a picture hang on the wall in the background
Description:
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Doors & doorways, Bottles, and Birdcages
A young man (a servant?) and a housemaid embrace in the corner of a cellar, the spigot of the beer cask next to them wide open and beer overflowing from the pitcher beneath. An older man on the left stands in the doorway to the celler, atop the second...
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basements, Women domestics, Hugging, Barrels, Beer, Pitchers, Doors & doorways, and Candles
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
Maidment H43 no. 2 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Five figures on the left, dressed in the English style of the mid-eighteenth century, peer over with curiosity at five figures on the right, which are dressed in the extravagantly dandified style of approximately 1830 and return the curious looks
"A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Street lights, Oil cans, Ladders, and Doors & doorways
"A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carel...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Street lights, Oil cans, Ladders, and Doors & doorways
A dandified hunter sits on a log in front of a simple fence, his shotgun and a bottle beside him. A pie (or plate?) and fork are laid out on a small cloth on the ground in front of him; a small bird feeds on crumbs in front of the cloth. The man inspe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Hunting, Rifles, Bottles, Food, Forks, and Birds
A dandified hunter sits on a log in front of a simple fence, his shotgun and a bottle beside him. A pie (or plate?) and fork are laid out on a small cloth on the ground in front of him; a small bird feeds on crumbs in front of the cloth. The man inspe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Hunting, Rifles, Bottles, Food, Forks, and Birds
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1841]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 17 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A blindfolded and disoriented John Bull figure, arms outstretched in an attempt to feel his surroundings, is shown in a room full of unsavory characters (politicians among them) who pick his pockets or otherwise scheme to take advantage of him. The te...
Alternative Title:
Political blindman's bluff, Political blind man's buff, and Political blind man's bluff
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Blind man's bluff, Blindfolds, Pickpockets, Interiors, Politicians, Taxes, Coins, Eating & drinking, and Brooms & brushes
A man in tattered clothes points in astonishment at a sign on the wall, which reads "Pavillion Pall Mall. To Be Seen A Prince of Whales 95 Feet Long, Admission 3s." Below is another sign with the heading "Reform."
A man in tattered clothes points in astonishment at a sign on the wall, which reads "Pavillion Pall Mall. To Be Seen A Prince of Whales 95 Feet Long, Admission 3s." Below is another sign with the heading "Reform."
A man sits in front of a fireplace, his left hand on his forehead as if in pain. With his right hand he extends a pair of tongs into the fire, at the end of which is a document entitled "For the Times". On the floor behind him is a large pile of simil...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published July 21, 1832, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by Maguire, Lemercier & Co., 24, Leicester Sq.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868. and Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1840?]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 16 Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Heading to a title page for a poem or musical composition. A winged devil looms above and behind a group of sixteen half-length figures wearing hooded cloaks, his arms outstretched and lifting up the cloaks of the figures in the back. All sixteen hold...
Design composed of four vignette images, each providing a comic visual pun on the name of the religous sect mentioned in the caption below. The "Jumpers" jump over a stream while being chased by goats; the "Quakers" cower and pray in fright as a donke...
Description:
Title from text centered above images, and from numbering in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Religious groups, Goats, Jumping, Streams, Fear, Donkeys, Fences, Dogs, Fighting, Watchmen, and Lanterns
An intoxicated man in tattered clothing leans against a wooden post on the street. He looks over at a woman to the left, also intoxicated, who sits on the ground. An article of the woman's clothing is caught on the post and is hanging off her shoulder...
An intoxicated man in tattered clothing leans against a wooden post on the street. He looks over at a woman to the left, also intoxicated, who sits on the ground. An article of the woman's clothing is caught on the post and is hanging off her shoulder...
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
Two men stand on the sidewalk under a street lamp, one of whom is a dustman with a pipe sticking out of his cap who asks the other, a large tradesman in an apron about his emaciated, muzzled dog. The dialogue below the title reads: I say Joe, what mak...
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1822.
Call Number:
Maidment AL415 no. 1 Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Print presents multiple images each titled separately with a phrase that completes the "Symptoms" heading. [Upper left]: An actress reacts dramatically to a statement from a theater manager. [Upper right]: Seasick passengers slumped over on a table an...
"A hen with a man's face (Sir Robert Peel), standing on a shore at right, watching over a group of ducks taking to the water (among them Queen Victoria and Prince Albert), looking at a bird with a man's face on the opposite shore (King Louis-Philippe)...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed at the General Lithc. Estabt., 70 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., and France.
Subject (Name):
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861, Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861., Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, and Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Kings, Ducks, Roosters, and Bodies of water
