Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Politician introducing an army composed of street men, criminals and Devil to drunk Queen of Spain with Catholic clergy and court."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., Text below title: Her Most Catholic Majesty Donna Isabella reviewing the first division upon its arrival, under the command of Colonel De Lacy Evans ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "93" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 93.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Spain.
Subject (Name):
Evans, George De Lacy, Sir, 1787-1870
Subject (Topic):
Queens, Intoxication, Clergy, Military officers, Working class, and Hand tools
Title etched below image., Theodore Lane collaborated with George and Charles Hunt on prints with non-political jokey subjects from 1825 to 1827; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of verse etched below title: Wine cures the gout, the colic and the phthisic. Wine it is to all men the very best of physic., 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: Cholic -- Wright, Charles.
A fashionably dressed Oxonian in cap and gown staggers along, full-face, yawning violently; his hair is short and dishevelled
Description:
Title from text inscribed in black ink above image., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., A copy of an Isaac Cruikshank etching published in Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches ... / by G.M. Woodward, One of a series of 13 drawings by the same artist., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption below image., Probably after a design by Rowlandson; Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.796., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., 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:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Intoxication, Skeletons, Crowns, and Fireplaces
Three country women register their delight at a full bowl which the eldest holds, while one drinks tipsily from a glass, the third reaches out for the bowl
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '16' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Varient, with plate number, of no. 11669 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Two men have been drinking as they sit across the table. The one on the right leans back in his chair asleep, his smoking tobacco-pipe and an overturned bottle of wine on the table in front of him. The other with his wig under his arm, leans forward shouting, and hold a glass of wine in front of his companion's face
Alternative Title:
Drunkenness
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '14' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant issue, with plate number, of no. 11668 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
"The Prince of Wales lies on his bed, partly dressed, in a drunken stupor, head downwards, right arm hanging to the ground, where are broken bottles and spilt wine. The ghost of his great-uncle, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), immensely fat, and naked except for cocked hat and sabre, emerging from clouds, stands at the bed-side (right), holding up an hour-glass whose sands have nearly run out; in his right hand he raises the bed-curtains which frame the design. He warns the Prince of the effects of drink and corpulence. See BMSats 9383, 9384, 9385, where the warning is extended."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Drinking vessels, Ghosts, Hourglasses, Intoxication, and Obesity
Title etched below image., Plate numbered '39' in lower right corner., Restrike for Bohn's "Supressed plates". Cf. No. 9381in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.7., and Temporary local subject terms: Furnishings: bed curtains -- Hour-glass -- Glass: wine bottles.
Publisher:
Pubd May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
"The Prince of Wales lies on his bed, partly dressed, in a drunken stupor, head downwards, right arm hanging to the ground, where are broken bottles and spilt wine. The ghost of his great-uncle, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65), immensely fat, and naked except for cocked hat and sabre, emerging from clouds, stands at the bed-side (right), holding up an hour-glass whose sands have nearly run out; in his right hand he raises the bed-curtains which frame the design. He warns the Prince of the effects of drink and corpulence. See BMSats 9383, 9384, 9385, where the warning is extended."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.9 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 40.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 5 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1799, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Drinking vessels, Ghosts, Hourglasses, Intoxication, and Obesity
A young drunk dandy, his clothes torn and spattered, is being ushered into a box-chair on the left by three members of the Watch, who grin consipiratorily towards the viewer. The scene is apparently set in the arcade of Covent Garden; on the ground is a playbill lettered 'At the Theatre Royal / Crow Street / the Road to Ruin'.
Description:
Title etched below image., Place of publication inferred from text on playbeill within image, which mentions Dublin's Theatre Royal in Crow Street., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Probably a copy, with different text on depicted playbill, of a print after Dighton that was published in London by Haines & Son on 18 June 1795. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.435., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden -- Footmen -- Playbills -- Literature: Allusion to The Road to Ruin, by Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) -- Theatre Royal, Crow Street.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Intoxication, Pickpockets, and Sedan chairs
