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1. Jack and the bean stalk [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Jack and the bean stalk [graphic]
2. [Title page decorated with ivy growing out of an urn] [art original]
- Creator:
- Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1884 and 1890]
- Call Number:
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Vines and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Title page decorated with ivy growing out of an urn] [art original]
