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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.
£200.
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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.
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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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I. Cruikshank. THE EXCISEMAN
AND THE COUNTRYMAN.
9 ½ x 13 ½. Published by T. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside,
London. (c.1810). Good original colour with reasonable margins.
An Exciseman sits at a table, on which are two mugs of beer,
talking to a countryman and saying. “What signifies
a little defamation Master Ralph – depend upon it you
will get nothing by going to Law – why bless you if I
was to go to Law with every body that calls me a scoundrel I
should have nothing else to do”. The countryman looking
very unhappy replies. “Ay that’s quite a another
thing Measter Exciseman – with you it don’t signify
but as to me if I wur to put up with such things you know –
I have a
Char – racter, to lose!!!”.
Not in BM. See Krumbhaar No. 337.
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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.
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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.
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I. Cruikshank. THE FRIENDS
OF THE PEOPLE.
Published Nov. 15, 1792 by S. W. Fores. No 3 Piccadilly.
13½ x 9½. Original colour on laid paper with a
soft old vertical fold and reasonable margins.
Dr Priestley and Paine sit facing each other. Surrounding them,
and on the wall, are indications of the danger they were believed
to offer to the government.
Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’, had become
the de facto manifesto of the London Corresponding Society and
other radical groups. Four years later he published ‘Common
Sense’, this was important in the build up to the
American Declaration of Independence.
B. M. 8131.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Caricature by 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. A MAGISTERIAL
VISIT.
London published No 17 1795 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly Corner
of Sackville Street.
9¼ x 13½. Trimmed onto/within the plate mark on
three sides, the bottom with a plate mark. On wove watermarked
paper. Original colour – somewhat faded.
This is a satire on the Bill for preventing seditious meetings.
Justices of the Peace were empowered to disperse meetings by
proclamation. Lecture Halls had to be licensed by two magistrates
and a magistrate might enter at any time.
Three men sit at a table at which a magistrate stands. He is
holding the Punch Bowl and tasting its contents. He is saying,
“By Virtue of my authority I am come to taste whether
there is any sedition in the punch Bowl!!!”
B. M. 8686.
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I. Cruikshank. PARSONIC
PIETY.
London published January 20 1794 by S W Fores N3 Piccadilly
where may seen a compleate model of the Guilotine, the Head
and hand of Count Streuenzee & the largest Collection of
Caracatures in the World.
15¾ x 9¾. Trimmed to the plate mark on three sides,
with the plate mark visible at the base. On laid paper with
a watermark. Two small tears on the left outside the image and
a repaired tear on the right to the watch in the woman’s
hand. Rather weak original colour.
An engraving in two parts. On the left a view of a Parson in
the pulpit preaching to the assembled churchgoers. The image
on the right shows the same Parson coming out of a brothel with
a prostitute who has just picked his pocket and removed his
watch.
B. M. 8524.
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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
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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.
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I. Cruikshank. The SAILORS
DEFENCE!!
Published by T. Tegg. 111. Cheapside. With a Tegg number top
right of 6. c.1810.
13¾ x 9¾. Original colour, with reasonable margins
to the sides and small margins top and bottom. Very slight surface
marks.
A magistrate sits in a chair and says to the burly sailor,
“I really wonder you are not ashamed of yourself. A man
of your athletic make to beat a poor fellow – so much
inferior to you in point of size what have you to say for yourself”.
Standing next to the magistrate is the poor fellow in question.
The sailor replies,” Please your Magistrates Worship
and Glory he run foul of my Larboard side as I was steering
through Wapping – so I hove him a gentle topper &
knock’d him down but I meant no harm for as I hope to
see salt water again I had nothing at all in my hand but my
fist”.
Not in the B. M.
£170. |
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Isaac 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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Isaac 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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Isaac 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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Isaac Cruikshank. LORDS
OF CREATION FRIGHTENED BY A FLY.
Published By Allen & West 15m Paternoster Row December 3,
1796.
7½ x 10. Uncoloured. Small margins on two sides and trimmed
onto/within the plate mark at the other two sides.
The two fat seated men both have gout. One has his swollen leg
on a gout stool and the other has a gouty arm. They are frightened
by the fly and each fears that it may alight on his gouty limb.
B. M. 8967.
£45. |
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Isaac 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. |
