Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Jack cutting the bean stalk leading to the fall of politicians with money bags and precious objects."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jack and the beanstalk
Description:
Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Ten lines of text below title: In the days of King Blubberhead, Billy the Silly, there lived an old woman, y'clept Bull, who had a foster-son, y'clept Jack Rouseall, a rare blustering blade ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and No. 98.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Vines, Axes, Falling, Money, Urns, and Chalices
Drawing of an urn from which grows ivy with clusters of purple berries climbing a stone wall behind; decorates the right margin of the text block on the title page
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed by the artist with initials in lower left portion of image., Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period., Date from specially printed title page indicating that the volumes of this copy were "... privately illustrated 1884-1890"., and Bound in as page 14 in volume 10 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world/ edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
