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I. Cruikshank.
The PHANTASMAGORIA – or a REVIEW of old Times.
Published by T. Williamson N 20 Strand London March 9th 1803.
9¾ x 14. Good original colour, trimmed to the plate mark,
(plate mark visible at the top and partially on the other three
sides). There are a few very slight marks.
A magician dressed in consular dress and a cocked hat indicating
Napoleon stands in the centre, with his sabre held over the
heads of two figures that he has called up from the past. He
is showing them to their descendants, a large and healthy Frenchman
wearing military boots and a cocked hat. and a thin and wretched
shambling Englishman.
This is a satire on the prosperity of French under the First
Consul.
B. M. 9971.
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I. Cruikshank. GIVE A DOG
AN ILL NAME, THEY’LL HANG HIM.
Published May 10th 1796 by Fores. 10 x 14 ¾. Good original
colour; trimmed almost to the engraved area.
One of the many prints showing the unpopularity of Pitt, who
is here being hung by Sheridan and Fox. The dog tax had been
accepted by Pitt, and it came into operation the following month
for ‘the dogs of the opulent’.
B.M. 8803. See Krumbhaar No. 444.
£180. |
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I. Cruikshank. A LONG HEADED MINUET.
Published by Tegg. (c. 1810 ) 13¾ x 9 ¾. Original
colour - slightly faded. Reasonable margins. Slight marks from
an old, and thus not acid free mount showing just outside the
image.
Both Isaac Cruikshank and Williams produced prints based on
this ‘long headed’ theme. Here the comments are
about the fine dancing and the beauty of the women. The monacled
figure on the right says,
Oh charming
Grace in all her steps
Heaven in her eye
In every gesture
Dignity and Love.
Not in the B.M. See Krumbhaar No. 663.
£100. |
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After I. Cruikshank. THE
TREASURY SPECTRE.
Published in London and Paris, with the usual folds. A reduced
image of the Fores publication, c.1798.
A gouty Pitt sits in an invalid’s chair in Bath. He is
complaining about the war and his health, with the standing
Dundas is giving him a drink of “The Water of Oblivion.”
At this time Pitt was ill and the King had recommended that
he went to Bath to recuperate.
B. M. 9226A.
£140. |
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I. Cruikshank. MISERIES
OF HUMAN LIFE
9 ½ x 12 ½. Published by (Tegg). (c.1808?). Good
original colour, and trimmed to the image. To the left is a
gent trying to get his horse across the river. To the right
two amused locals point at the spectacle. The script underneath
says. “Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you
have watered him on the road, proceeds very cooly to repose
himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all
into his counsel or paying the slightest attention to your vivid
remonstrances on the subject”.
Not in the BM. See Krumbhaar No. 738.
£80. |
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I. Cruikshank. POLONIUS.
The Tallest, Fittest, Properest, Man to walk before the King!!!
Published Nov 7 1795 by S. W. Fores No 50 Piccadilly.
9¼ x 15¼. Uncoloured and on laid paper. Trimmed
onto/within the engraved line around the print with very slight
marks.
The Marquis of Salisbury as Lord Chamberlain and he has the
key of his office hanging by his side.
B. M. 8724.
£40. |
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I. Cruikshank. Comparative
Anatomy or the Dandy Tribe.
Published Dec. 10th 1818 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
13¼ x 9½. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed
onto/within the plate mark.
The three dandies have the heads of an ass, and ape and a dog.
B. M. 13068.
£185. |
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I. Cruikshank. THE SPREAD
EAGLE. GRACE CHURCH STREET.
Published by S. W. Fores 50 Piccadilly Aug 19th 1808.
9¾ x 13¾. Original colour on laid paper with reasonable
margins. Old folds which are visible on the back but not on
the image.
George Cruikshank has added a note on the bottom left of the
image “By Isaac Cruikshank. G Ck.”
The fashionably dressed couple look in opposite directions.
She worries about the officer lurking behind the tree while
he looks up at the prostitute leaning out of the window.
B. M. 11127.
£275. |
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I. Cruikshank. BLESS THEE
BOTTOM BLESS THEE
Published Jan. 1 1794, by S. W. Fores No 3. Piccadilly.
8½ x 11¾. Original colour on laid paper with small
margins and slight marks.
The B. M. identifies the seated figure as the sculptor Wilton,
who was Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1790 to his death in
1803. The other figure has been identified as the secretary
of the Academy, John Inigo Richards.
B. M. 8519.
£140. |
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I. Cruikshank. Public House
Politicians!!
Published January 2 1807 by T. Tegg Cheapside. With a Tegg number
top right of 135.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, with reasonable margins
to the sides and small margins top and bottom. Small wormhole
top right.
Seven gentlemen sit around a long table debating. The eighth
man standing at the head of the table is saying, “Gemmen
– as Landlord to this here Pullitical and Larned Society,
I begs leave to mention the subject of debate for this here
nights iddification ‘Do the present Ministry act right
or wrong?’. For my part I am undecidedly of the opinion
that they act wrong to a man”.
Not in the B. M.
£165. |
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I. Cruikshank. A Tale of
Terror!!!
By Thomas Tegg Cheapside.
13½ x 9½. Good original colour, in the past the
print has been folded into quarters which, is just visible.
The Tegg number 115 is printed top right.
Five people sit on chairs listening to a yarn told by a yokel
as to why his hair stands on end. They conclude that he must
have been talking to the devil. A woman has fallen off her chair
in shock, as has another man, because a dog has jumped up onto
him.
Not in B.M. See Krumbhaar, No. 1193.
£100. |
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I. Cruikshank. Mrs FIGS
Card Party disturbed.
Published by T Tegg 111 Cheapside April (c.1810). Bearing the
number 238 top right.
13¼ x 9¼. Good original colour, trimmed onto/within
the plate mark.
Gambling after twelve O’clock was not allowed. This image
is of a card-playing group being broken-up and the law enforcers
about to take the players to the Round House, (jail).
Not in the B.M. See Krumbhaar No.775.
£145. |
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I. Cruikshank (?). THE THREE
ORDERS OF St. PETERSBURGH.
Published March 18th 1800 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly.
To the lower right “Folios of Caricatures lent out for
the Eve.g”.
8¾ x 13. Good original colour with small margins
This is a satire on the uncertainty as to the intentions of
Paul Ist in relation to the Coalition and military operations.
The movements of the Russian army under Suvoroff, and the uncertainties
as to the orders given to it were reported in the English press.
Here the Tsar holds two papers; one says Order and
the other, Counter Order. On his crown is inscribed
Disorder.
B.M. 9526. and Krumbhaar, No. 1215.
£125. |
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I. Cruikshank. MAKING a
SAILOR an ODD FELLOW.!!
Published by T. Tegg, Cheapside. December 1st 1812. With the
number 109 top right.
13¾ x 9¾. Good original colour, with reasonable
margins at the sides, small margin to the base, (with a small
tear into margin only). Trimmed onto plate mark at the top.
Slightly grubby.
A man in a long gown addresses the gentleman in the chair saying,
“Most worthy Chairman Mr Benjamin Block of Wapping Old
Stairs – attends to be made a member of the Ancient and
honourable Society.”
Mr Benjamin Block, (in his sailors cloths), looks on and says,
“Avast my Hearties, - before I’ve proceeded any
further on the voyage let me know what course you are steering
– if you mean to frighten a British sailor with your goggle
eyes, and queer faces, you are d----dly mistaken – besides
it appears to me that you have got masks on which is like fighting
under false colours, and that wont do for an English Jack Tar!”
B. M. 10899.
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I. Cruikshank. The Scotch
Cottage of Glenburnia.
Published by T. Tegg, 111, Cheapside. (Dated 1810 on the B.
M. copy). With Tegg Caricatures No 33. centre top.
13¾ x 9¾. Good original colour with good margins.
A view inside a poor cottage. The muckheap and ‘pond’
with ducks on is immediately outside the open door. A gentleman,
(who is visiting with two friends), and finding the house in
disarray, is speaking to the mother, he is saying, “
Mistress Mclarthy, why do you not make your Daughters assit
you-" The mother replies, “Indeed my Daughters
can clean the House, or milk the Ky as weel as I can when they
like, but its no often they will be Flashed”.
B. M. 11651.
£140. |
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I. R. Cruikshank. THE FLYING
PRIVY. From WESTMORELAND.
Published by G. Humphrey 24 St James’s St. June 1827.
9¾ x 14. Good original colour with small margins and
on water marked paper of 1826. Some very slight surface marks.
Canning was asked to form an administration in April, Westmoreland
was one of those who resigned. Here he is seen dropping a large
gold coloured Privy Seal; the two men below are holding
their noses.
B.M. 15412.
£120. |
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I. Cruikshank. Scene. a
Club Room. Lucky Dogs Sharing a Capital Prize…
No publication details on the plate.
15 x 11½. Original colour and trimmed onto/within the
plate mark. On thin paper with old folds with slight damage
on the folds.
Not in the B. M.
£125. |
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I. Cruikshank. ASSASSINATION.
Published August 19th 1790 by S. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly.
14 x 10¼. Original colour on laid paper. Trimmed onto/within
the plate mark, but well outside the image. Two tears (top and
bottom) and marks at the top. The top left corner of the copper
plate has been broken off before the printing.
An officer of the Gardes du Corps stands before the door where
Louis XV1 stands with Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin. On the
right and dressed as women are Orelans and Mirabeau.
There had been an attack on the Queen in October the year before,
and the Royal family had moved from Paris to Versailles for
extra safety. Orleans had already had similar allegations made
against him.
B. M. 7668.
£95. |
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I.R. and G. Cruikshank.
THE SPIRIT MOVES!!!
No publisher’s imprint (the same as the B. M. copy).
14 x 10. Original colour with reasonable margins.
The glum looking couple on the right says “The Spirit
Moveth Not”
B. M. 13098.
£235. |
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I. Cruikshank. LORD MUM
SUCKING HIS THUMB.
Published by Fores. November 10th 1796. 8 ½ x 13 ¾.
Good original colour. Most of the plate mark showing. Remains
of blue album sheet on the verso. An indecisive Lord Malmesbury
sucks his thumbs. This relates to his peace mission with the
French, and the quotes given probably derive from a quotation
in the paris newspapers of October 28th.
B.M. 8832. See Krumbhaar No. 677.
£100. |
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I. Cruikshank. A Nice Lady
or An Incomparable !!!
Published Oct. 20th 1813 by S W Fores 50 Piccadilly.
8¾ x 13½. Original colour on laid paper and trimmed
to the border.
Her clothes are inscribed with names of food with fish predominating.
Her skirt is‘fishing net’. Her bonnet a
'Scallop Shell’; her teeth ‘Pearl Oyster’
and her hands are ‘Fish hooks or Crab Claws’.
B. M. 13057.
£280. |
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I. Cruikshank. WHA WANTS
ME.
Published Dec. 26, 1792, by J. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly.
11¼ x 14. Original colour and trimmed within the border,
with two small repaired tears lower right. On laid paper.
A smiling, Tom Paine holds a scroll headed by Rights of
Man, his head is irradiated by the words, Anarchy,
Murder, Rebellion, Treachery etc.
B. M. 8146
£145. |
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I. Cruikshank. JOHNY MAC-CREE
in the Dumps!!
Published April 12 – 1805 by S. W. Fores. 50. Piccadilly
London.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, with small margins.
On laid paper.
Two elderly Scots discuss the Melville case. One, whilst taking
snuff, (from an elaborate horn snuffbox), says, “Touch
the Sillar!!! – Tis a disgrace on aw Scotland!”
Melville on the left is seen weeping saying, “What
my ain Countrymen turn their backs on me! then tis up with Johny
Mac-cree”. On the right, Pitt runs off furtively
saying, “I must cut out this connexion - & leave
him to his fate”.
B. M. 10385.
£160. |
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I. Cruikshank. SUFFOLK RATS
PROTECTING THEIR CHEESE or the Country Fencibles called to arms.
Published January 5th 1795 by S. W. Fores. No 3 Piccadilly.
14 x 10. On laid paper and with small margins. Original, (?),
colour and some slight marks. Paper thinning top right due to
old glue marks from an album sheet.
The banner in the centre reads “In honour we call
you not press you like slaves”. This is because the
Fencibles differed from the Militia in that they were not chosen
by ballot and thus were volunteers. Why they were shown as rats
is not clear.
B. M. 8597.
£145. |
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I. Cruikshank. SHEWING THE
GARDEN.
Published by Allen and West 15 Paternoster Row August 27. 1796.
10 x 7½. Uncoloured, with small margins.
One of the plates from ‘Eccentric Excursions’
published in 1797. The 1807 issue has removed or altered
dates.
A stout cit stands outside his house showing his fashionable
visitor the latrine, which is a pseudo-gothic building at the
bottom of the garden.
B. M. 8942.
£15. |
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I. Cruikshank. CONTRASTED
OXONIANS.
Published by Allen and West, 15 Paternoster Row December 31,
1796.
10 x 7½. Uncoloured with small margins on two sides and
trimmed onto/within the plate mark on the other two sides.
Both are fashionably dressed and the text in the volume says
that they are “a conceited Fellow, and a Drunken Fellow,
of different colleges.”
B. M. 8975.
£15. |
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I. Cruikshank. COLLEGE PORTRAITS.
Published By Allen & West 15 Paternoster Row December 31
1796.
7½ x 10. Uncoloured and trimmed onto/within the plate
mark.
Nine heads of undergraduates from Oxford.
B. M. 8976.
£15. |
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I. Cruikshank. SCOTCH WASHING.
Published by T. Tegg – 111 Cheapside. (c.1809).
13½ x 9½. Original colour with small margins at
the sides and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the top
and bottom. Slight marks at the top corners, just touching the
engraved area on the top left. A slight mark just above the
head of the young women in the centre.
Visitors to Scotland often commented on the bare legs of the
women washing clothes in tubs or in streams. Here an interested
passer by is being soaked by the young women in the stream.
Not in the B. M. See B. M. 11476 for a reduced image of the
same title by I. Cruikshank.
£200. |
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I. Cruikshank. SYMPTOMS
OF COURAGE OR THE TABLES TURNED.
Published August 16, 1790 by S. W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly.
14¾ x 11. Original colour on laid paper. Trimmed onto/within
the plate mark at the top, otherwise reasonable margins.
The left hand side shows an affair of honour between de Voglas,
Adjutant-General of the army, and Orleans. The second image
depicts an imagined sequel.
B. M. 7667.
£150. |
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I. Cruikshank. NAUTICAL
COMFORT.
Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside London. (c.1810). Woodward
Del.
9¾ x 14¾. Good original colour, with reasonable
margins and with a watermark of 1817.
A scene on the poop deck of a man-of-war. A thin civilian tugs
the coat of a sailor. Gaining his attention, he tries to persuade
him not to fight the enemy ship that approaches. He assures
him that he will attack the approaching vessel so quickly and
with such devastation that he will not even notice.
BM.10897.
£150. |
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I. Cruikshank. JACK JUNK
EMBARKING ON A CRUISE!!
Published by T. Tegg Cheapside. (The B. M. suggests 1807).
13¾ x 10. Original colour. Good margins at the sides
and trimmed onto/within the plate mark at the top and bottom.
With slight marks and a watermark of 1817.
Laughter erupts as the sailor tries to mount from the wrong
side.
B. M. 10898.
£160. |
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I. Cruikshank. LOVE AND
FOLLY.
Published Oct. 1. 1807 by Laurie & Whittle. 53. Fleet Street.
10½ x 8¾. Original colour and trimmed onto/within
the plate mark.
The toothless old man and the pretty young woman dance hand
in hand. The smartly dressed group following on hardly bother
to conceal their mirth, and even cupid has to be led as he is
blindfolded.
B. M. 10953.
£75. |
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I. Cruikshank. THE NEW CONSULAR
WALTZ.
Published May 29th 1803, by T. Williamson No 20 Strand.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour with reasonable margins,
although the margins have some marks, and small paper loss,
but this is outside the plate mark, with a watermark of 1810.
Seven women toss Napoleon in the air, the one on the right says
“….Can you behave peaceably”. Napoleon is
saying “Oh that I were safe in Egypt”. In the
background, sit a Dutchman and a Spaniard.
B. M. 10001.
£175. |
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I. Cruikshank. THE SERENADE!
Published Oct. 11. 1802 by T. Williamson No 20 Strand.
11 x 8. Original colour and good margins.
A social caricature where the title explains all.
Not in the B. M.
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