"The interior of a well-furnished room with a carpeted floor. A young woman turns aside with a gesture of disgust from a young man of simian appearance who is grinning sheepishly. Her father stands behind her with outstretched arms, pleading desperately for her acceptance of the man. The suitor, holding his hat in both hands, turns away from the lady with an imbecile grin, but is being pushed towards her by a third man, probably his father. Through two sash-windows (left) appear houses and the steeple of a church. Between them is an oval mirror in a carved frame. A landscape hangs on the other wall (right) perhaps symbolically amplifying the subject; a waterfall flows over a large stand of rocks with a sole tree bending in the wind
Alternative Title:
Happiness sacrifised to riches
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist identified as Robert Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.136., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Numbered "516" in lower left corner., No. 27 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:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Fathers, Interiors, Marriage, Mirrors, Parlors, and Rugs
Title and place of publication from item., Date derived from publisher's active dates., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub'd by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y.
Subject (Topic):
Child care, Mother and child, Dogs, Mothers, Children, Kennels, Nests, and Birds
"A young couple embrace on a sofa, the woman holds out a rose in her left hand which her infant on the extreme right smells. The elderly husband watches round the door; behind him, on the extreme left, a grinning servant puts his finger to his nose. Under the characters (left to right): 'Hearing.' 'Seeing.' 'Tasting.' 'Feeling.' 'Smelling.'"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title engraved above image., Earlier state of no. 9659 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Each depicted 'sense' named below its manifestation in the image: Hearing. Seeing. Tasting. Feeling. Smelling., Plate numbered '205' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Toddlers -- Domestic service: Manservant -- Furniture.
Publisher:
Published 1st January 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., Sheet trimmed on right and left edges., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Copy., and On page 101 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to, plate visible at bottom: 9.7 x 13.2 cm.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
Children in front of a foundling hospital engaged in various industrious activities; on the right a weeping woman kneels, holding a handkerchief to her eyes, her child having fallen into the river behind her. A man turns to look at her; he holds a folio with the words "The Royal Charter" etched at the top. In the distance, a view of the coast and ships at sea
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Ireland, J. A supplement to Hogarth illustrated. London : [J. Ireland], 1798., "Page 257"--Upper right corner., Copy after Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 225., and Sheet trimmed on right and left edges.
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
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare, and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 27.5 x 36.7 cm.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
"Design in an irregular oval border to which four scrolls are attached: ‘To the Work House, To the Mad-House, To the Gaol, The Gibbet'. The shop is ornate and pilastered, lit by a double gas chandelier. The customers, dregs of the town, stand at the counter, within the toothed circle of a huge man-trap on the floor. A drunken man in the remnants of fashionable clothes, takes a glass from the barmaid (right). She is outwardly comely, but her fashionable dress, a smiling mask, and gloves, conceal a skeleton, revealed by a skull which grins from her shoulder, and the bones of a foot and ankle. Beside her is a book: ‘Open Gin Shop The Way to Wealth'. An old hag drinks, another gives gin to an infant in her arms; a little girl drains a glass, and a tiny child clamours at the counter. On the counter stands a small cask on which sits a skeleton: Bacchus with bottle and glass. On the left stands Death (who has set the trap), a skeleton dressed as a London watchman; he holds up an hour-glass in place of lantern; he holds a javelin which points ominously to a trap-door in the boards at his feet. He says: ‘I shall have them all dead drunk presently! They have nearly had their last glass'. On the extreme right behind the barmaid is a doorway framing a ring of little demons dancing round a spirit-still; a skull grins from the transparent retort; below the floor is a dark space: ‘Spirit Vaults'. The casks in the shop are coffins. A huge one is ‘Old Tom' [gin, especially if good and strong]. The others are ‘Deady's Cordial' [Deady was a well-known distiller], ‘Kill Devil' [rum, especially if new], ‘Blue Ruin' [bad gin], ‘Gin & Bitters'. On the wall are two placards: [1] a playbill, ‘Drury Lane Theatre, Road to Ruin [cf. British Museum Satires No. 8073] --Life in London [cf. British Museum Satires No. 14320], Devil to Pay' [cf. British Museum Satires No. 7908]; [2] ‘Wanted a few Members to complete A Burial Society'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of quoted verse below title: "Now oh dear, how shocking the thought is, They makes the gin from aquafortis; They do it on purpose folks lives to shorten, And tickets it up at two-pence a quartern". New Ballad., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. Part the second. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, pages 239-240., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Drunkeness -- Children and Childcare
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholism, Death (Personification), Alcoholic beverages, Gin, Intoxication, Children, Demons, Stills (Distilleries), and Coffins
Title from item., Publisher supplied by curator., Date derived from publishing company's active dates., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
N. Currier
Subject (Topic):
Child care, Grandparent and child, Religious education of children, Books, Bibles, Grandparents, and Children
