Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 2 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop's hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He has a very large nose and a round checks. His very large belly is exaggerated further in graphite
Alternative Title:
Sinecure
Description:
Title from caption written below image., Date of creation based on Grant's known years of activity., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Chickens, Clergy, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), and Swine
"A scene on a curving road leading to a bridge over a stream in flood; a post is inscribed 'To Ring's End'. A man in back view is clumsily seated on a rough-looking horse which has just lost a shoe, carrying on his head a trunk labelled 'Sr Dennis Doyl with Speed'; he kicks his apparently stationary mount. In the stream is a thatched hovel (left) with the sign: 'Good dry lodgings'; a man walks from it through the water carrying a child and a young pig. His wife stands on the bank wringing out her petticoat, while a large pig struggles to land. A cow looks from the window, two cats are on the roof. A board on the bridge is inscribed 'Dangerous when you See the 2 Small Posts in the Water become Invisable - if you cant Read Inquire at Davy Drench's whole tell you all about it.' A sailing-boat has collided with the bridge, and large stones fall on the heads of its two occupants. On the right is a large tree; a man sits astride a branch which he chops off, while a man who holds a rope attached to it is looking quizzically over his shoulder at the rider carrying the trunk. Man and branch are about to fall on a barrow laden with crockery. On the tree-trunk is a board on which timber-workers are depicted with the inscription: 'My honest Frinnds as you pass by Were hard at work and very dry.' In the foreground (right) a man amusedly points out the pending accident to a woman holding a child who stands beside him. At their feet sits a child eating out of the same dish as a lean pig. Cf. BMSat 8747."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Irish bulls
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be seen the completest collection of caricatures in Europe, admite. 1 s. Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening., Mounted on modern secondary support., and Watermark.
"A design in two compartments; above, cavalry proceed right to left; below, infantry march left to right. [1] A burlesqued procession of men variously mounted. The leader, dressed as a light horseman and holding up a sabre, rides a horse with blinkers, trampling on a hen and chickens and leaving a dead pig behind him. He says: "Know all Men by these presents that if any accidents happen I do not Consider myself accountable for them after thus publiccally Warning every Person to keep within doors all all [sic] their live and Dead Stock!!" The next horseman, whose hat flies off, turns to shout: "Hollo there, some body be so good as to catch my hat." He is followed by a silent man riding a bull. Next him a man threatens with his sword a ragged boy on an ass: "What are you at you young scoundrel are you going to ride over the Captain keep in your rank you." The boy answers: "What d'ye mean by that I have as much right here as you." A man clasps his horse's neck, saying, "Curse the Horse how he Prances." Behind the ass, the horse of a man in civilian dress falls on its knees, throwing its rider, who says: "D------n the chimney Sweeper I thought he'd be over us." A rider (horse visible) shouts "Take care of the Apple Stall", while an old woman throws up her arms, shouting, "O Dear Mr Soldier dont ride over me." She is in danger from a man in regimentals, gauntlet gloves, and wearing a sword, but whose horse has blinkers. A man turns to him, saying, "D------n me you'll kill the old woman." He answers: "What signifies that charge her to the parish." The last of the procession is a yokel in a smock, on a horse with blinkers and collar. He rides down a pig and poultry; his neighbour turns to him, saying, "Mind what you are hat - you Sir in the Blue Frock if you kill the Pigs it will be actionable." He answers : "Then let them keep out of the way of the Sarvice." [2] An unsoldierly group march with bayoneted muskets, preceded by two boys with fife and drum. The officer, wearing a gorget and holding up a sword, scowls at a man behind him who raises his leg so high as to kick him, saying: "None of your tricks Jack dont Fancy you are in the shop now": the grinning offender is addressed by a man wearing a Grenadier's cap who marches beside him: "Mind what you are about or you will be had before a Court Martial". A man with tipsily closed eyes says, "I'm as giddy as a goose." A short, fat, elderly man in civilian dress says, "Warm work my Masters". His neighbour answers, "Nothing when you are used to it". A man wearing an apron rests his musket horizontally on his shoulder, saying, "This is the way to march"; he spikes the hat of the man behind, who shouts: "What are you at you fellow in green are you going to poke peoples eyes out". A stout man says, "When I kept the tripe Shop in the Borough who would have thought I should have rose to be an Insign." Beside him walks a woman with a bottle and glass shouting, "Does any Gentlemen in the front ranks want a drap of good Gin." A Grenadier marches beside the last couple looking contemptuously at a man in a shirt who says: "By goles this thing [musket] is so heavy it's the best way to drag it along and not carry it." The last man, who is bandy-legged, says, "I donna much like it."."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of imprint statement and publisher's advertisement from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. January 1st, 1797, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Title from text positioned above and below image area., Print is divided into two horizontal panels, each titled separately., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Satire on a drunken farmer in Worcestershire accompanying a letter from "S. P." published in the Oxford Magazine. A portly farmer is shown assisted home from the tavern (in the background) by two thinner men and is greeted by his angry wife, daughters and various farm animals. On the wall of the farmhouse are two nesting 'bottles' designed for birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 25., Temporary local subject terms: Fowl: rooster., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Donkeys, Farmers, Farms, Intoxication, and Swine
publish'd according to act of Parliament 25 March 1740 [that is 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 33. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the jockeying for position of the European powers in early 1740. A race-course on the sea-shore with a variety of animals and riders representing different countries: first comes Cardinal Fleury (France) falling from his fox which has stumbled at the winning post on "[Baron] Sinclair's papers". Behind the fox stands the devil holding a sheet of paper with a picture of five ships, lettered "Baltic Sea", an allusion to the French failure to form an alliance in that region. The devil pulls down one of the scales hanging from the umpire stand; the heavier scale represents the Imperial allies with swords, coins, a picture of the Imperial eagle and a note reading "ballance of power", while the lighter one holds objects connected with France and Spain, a cardinal's hat, mask, fox, and notes of "50,000 livers" and "10,000 pistoles" as well as a paper lettered "Mediation". On the umpire stand, America is in conversation with Africa while Europe embraces Asia for the sake of "Protection [of]Trade". Further to the left stands Captain Jenkins holding out his severed ear. Behind Fleury's fox runs the Spanish wolf, its rider unseated by the British lion's lashing tail, lettered "No Search Free Trade". The Russian bear, ridden by a man with a scimitar, follows; the bear kicks its hind legs at the Turkish elephant that is draped with a cloth lettered "Belgrade" in reference to the recent ceding of that city to Turkey. The sultan stands behind the elephant, offering a bag of money to a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig; a monkey also wearing a bag-wig, representing France, crouches in front of the bear. A Dutchman, smoking a pipe, stands beside a distance post having abandoned the race; his boar is laden with trade goods. Behind, on the left, the devil and a fool lead a group of Roman Catholic bishops, roped together, towards a closed building labelled "Conclave" where they will elect a successor to Pope Clement XII. In front of them seven men representing the European powers are seated at a round table with papers lettered "Alliance" and "Sinclair"; Cardinal Fleury turns aside towards another devil asking, "Extricute me now & I'm yours for ever". Further forward, a British herald, supported by classical female soldiers, blows a trumpet; beside them Fleury raises the front of his robe attempting to catch billowing smoke, lettered "Universal Monarchy". In the foreground, Time sits on his hour-glass holding a paper with a picture of a wolf dressed as a cardinal; rats chew at the bottom of the sheet; Fortune looses her grasp of Theodore of Corsica who throws his orb after his crown as it flies off on outspread wings; a British bulldog savages a Spanish wolf while a French fox runs off behind a bush; Captain Coram shows the plan of the Foundling Hospital to a woman and child seated on the ground; a Catholic ecclesiastic wrings his hands saying, "Ye have taking away my Gods, what have I more"; a man bends down to lift a chest full of "10000 pieces of Eight"; Emperor Charles VI rides on an eagle towards the finishing post, holding a shield with the British coat of arms in front of him while a shield with the fleur-de-lis falls to the ground; he is preceded by Charles Albert of Bavaria, fully armed on horseback, and carrying a shield with the motto, "Never conquered"; in front of him, a French ambassador kneels pleading with the British lion who tramples on a shield with the fleur-de-lis and prepares to fire a cannon. At lower right, Britannia pushes aside France (a woman in classical dress with a helmet, and a cock at her side holding out a paper lettered "Mediation") and points to a map showing the island of Cuba offered by a British herald and a sailor. In the background, to left, is the bay of Cadiz in which the Spanish fleet is shut up, British ships sail freely on the sea; a nymph holding a pennant lettered, "Quatuor Maria Vindico" (I claim the four seas), rides a dolphin; beyond are the island of Cuba and distant mountains. Lettering beneath on either side of a medal of a fighting cock which is itself lettereed "Aut Mors Aut Victoria" (Death or Victory)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 2449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 33 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, 1685-1740, Neuhof, Théodore-Antoine, baron de, 1690-1756, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, 1697-1745, Fleury, André Hercule de, 1653-1743, and Coram, Thomas, 1668?-1751
"A soldier on a great horse holds a rope attached to the legs of two prisoners who sit behind him facing the animal's tail; a drawn sword is in his right hand. Behind (right) is a haystack, on the top of which are two other Spaniards, much alarmed at the approach of a countryman who threatens them with his pitch-fork. A man and woman (left), both wearing coats with military facings, watch the scene; she points, he looks through a small telescope. In the foreground a sow and three young pigs are galloping. In the background is the sea, with fishing-boats."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate line.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Spanish, Captives, Soldiers, Swine, and Clothing & dress
Two ladies with the enormous derrières and bosoms of the day stand back-to-back. A small dog on the rump of the lady on the left barks at a small wild boar on the rump of the lady on the right
Alternative Title:
High bum-fiddle pig bow wow
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. and A print in the same series as British Museum catalogue v. 6, no. 7101.
Publisher:
Pub'd May 16, 1786 by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court St. Martins Lane
A young couple kiss inside the cab of an elegant carriage pulled by two pair of horses driven with whips by two riders; another rider follows along behind the carriage. On the road beside the carriage, a pig escapes pursuit as the rider topples from his horse, losing the wig in the process. In the left in the distance the town they have fled can be seen on a a hill. In the right foreground the milestone lies on its side and reads "XXX miles from London".
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 25 x 41 cm. on: Map of the lands of Ballyglass ... forming part of the estate of Charles Blake, Esquire ...
Publisher:
Published Octr. 1828, at 48, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Couples, Elopements, and Swine
