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ISAAC CRUIKSHANK A Catalogue Raisonné With a Sketch of his Life and Work

269. A DINNER IN A TAVERN. The only known portrait of Isaac here.

ISAAC CRUIKSHANK A Catalogue Raisonné W i t h a Sketch of his Life and W o r k by E. B. Krumbhaar, Ph.D., M.D.

Philadelphia UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

© 1966 by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Published in Great Britain, India, and Pakistan by the Oxford University Press London, Bombay, and Karachi Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-6617

7406 Printed in the United States of America

Foreword IN O R D E R B E T T E R T O UNDERSTAND T H E W O R K O F ISAAC C R U I K S H A N K AND HIS B R O T H E R

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caturists, it is helpful to make a brief survey of the times, social and political, in which they lived. T h e great Whig aristocrats, long the governing class of England, were following their normal life of unbridled license blended with a Renaissance-like pursuit of all the arts and enjoyments. With aristocratic arrogance, they combined a careful orthodoxy of form and ordered liberty with an abhorrence of despotism—an attitude which was followed by the great mass of the people. Little was it realized that highly important changes in social and political life were already taking place in Great Britain and in much of the Western world. T h e industrial revolution was brewing, and manufacturers were urging Parliamentary reform; soon workmen meeting in taverns, and clubs in obscure rooms, were debating liberty, equality and fraternity. Greater freedom of thought and expression, created and stimulated by such philosophers as Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, J e a n Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, and Denis Diderot, 1713-1784, culminated in a widespread revolt against orthodoxy—I'infame of Voltaire, 1694-1798—and erupted in the barbarous atrocities of the French Revolution. These trends were manifest also in Great Britain, but in a more phlegmatic type of license. Social habits were more relaxed; and sexual promiscuity, widely accepted throughout the eighteenth century, continued unabated until it provoked the prudish reaction of the Victorian age. An even greater change than the industrial revolution of the last century is now threatening the very existence of our world today. Owing to multiple causes such as communism, emancipation of backward regions (with increasing control of outer space), invention of destructive agents of unbelievable power—to mention the most important—it is not surprising that our world is turned upside down. T h e possible end results baffle reason. However, we have to do the job at hand, taking some comfort from the industrial changes of an earlier century when, from around 1780 to the early 1790's, in England at least, there occurred one of the most tranquil and prosperous periods in her history. Trade and manufacturing expanded and flourished, money was plentiful, and medicine and science prospered under the benign supervision of the Royal Society. Able statesmen were numerous—the two Pitts, Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Erskine, Thurlow, Castlereagh, Canning, to mention but a few—all providing frequent subjects for caricature; the arts also flourished—the poets Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth were contemporary with and but little younger than the artists we shall consider, and who produced a brilliant "unbroken chain of historical caricature," in the phrase attributed to John Paget, 1811-1898, in Blackwood's Magazine, 1863. 1 T h e caricaturists extending l Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine for 1863 phrase or Paget's name.

(Vols. 93 and 94), however, was not found to reveal either the

from Gillray to George Cruikshank, produced an achievement that will probably never again be equalled. Their work undoubtedly constituted an essential commentary on the social and political conditions of the period in which they worked—"treasures for posterity," as Paget aptly put it. Then, with one of Macaulay's "terrible conjunctures that confound all ordinary distinctions," the French Reign of Terror and its extraordinary progeny, Napoleon Bonaparte, suddenly demanded a degree of British fortitude and austerity which few but that race could have exhibited. Such was the situation in which appeared the great school of British caricaturists that flourished during the reign of George III. It is a noteworthy coincidence that the lives of the more important of these artists were so closely contemporary with many of the chief characters they portrayed. For instance, James Gillray, b. 1757, had finished his work by 1809; George M. Woodward, b. 1760(?), died in 1809. Isaac Cruikshank, b. 1764, died 1810(?); only Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, lived on beyond his colleagues. Of those they caricatured, George III, 17381820, ceased to play a role when his insanity became permanent in 1811; Fox, b. 1749, and the younger Pitt, b. 1759, both died in 1806. Napoleon, 1769-1821, whose ability to trouble the world ceased in 1815, of course provided a fertile field for British caricature. His early achievements, in the Italian campaign and as First Consul and Emperor, his threats of English invasion, and many of his main battles, all occurred during Isaac's lifetime. Throughout this period, before the modern newspaper existed, cartoons of political events, sold to the public for between a penny and sixpence apiece, played an important role in moulding public opinion and in supporting morale in critical times, just as the social cartoons are for us a source of primary information about the daily life of the common people. T h e names of some twenty of these artists can be found in the five volumes2 which cover the period under examination, of the superb Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires maintained by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum. In the whole series there have now been listed and described over 135,000 items, of which some 7,500 appear in the five volumes just mentioned. I am glad to acknowledge my debt to this great catalogue, which is still publishing new volumes as the material accumulates. It was so well planned that the procedure adopted for Volume 1 has been continued with only slight changes; and it has been carried out so thoroughly and accurately that anyone working in the field of satire during a period that it covers will find much of his work already done for him. T o turn to the present study, I may mention that I had been collecting "Cruikshank" for some forty years and had thought of writing an article about the collection; but it was not until I was introduced to the British Museum catalogue that I considered the larger task of preparing an annotated list of all of Isaac's artistic work. The further I went in the study, the more I became impressed with his artistic ability and surprised at the relatively low position assigned to him by art critics. With this conviction, I have attempted to gather all possible information about the man's life, and in addition to make an annotated list of as many as possible of his original sketches, published cartoons, illustrations for books, and so on, hoping that this will both illuminate Isaac Cruikshank's true status as an artist, and also be useful to anyone seeking information about him. 2 Vol. 5, 1771-1783; Vol. 6, 1784-1792; Vol. 7, 1793-1800; Vol. 8, 1801-1810; Vol. 9, 1811-1819.

Acknowledgments DURING THE MANY YEARS THAT THIS STUDY HAS BEEN IN PREPARATION, I HAVE BECOME IN-

debted to a number of people, the names of some of whom have now escaped my memory. The name of the earliest, whose fragmentary notes I got in 1910 from Mr. Charles Sessler, the well-known rare book dealer, I never knew; but I must thank this unknown here for starting me on an entertaining quest that has lasted for fully half a century. Among my friends who have responded generously to my requests for assistance, I mention William A. Jackson, Librarian of the Houghton Library, and Elizabeth C. Ford, Curator of the Widener Memorial Library, both at Harvard; Henry L. Savage, Archivist, and Alexander Wainwright, both of the Rare Books, Princeton University Library; Rudolph Hirsch and Lyman Riley, both of the University of Pennsylvania Library, whose advice and liberality in extending the use of valuable books on indefinite loan have been most helpful; Miss Ellen Shaffer and H. J. Heaney, both of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia; Carl Zigrosser, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Department of Engravings, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Miss Elizabeth Mongan, consultant for the Lessing Rosenwald Collection in Philadelphia; Miss Mabel Zahn of Charles Sessler and Company, Philadelphia; W. B. McDaniel, 2nd, Curator of the Library Historical Collections, College of Physicians of Philadelphia; James Laver, Keeper of the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the General Register Office, Somerset House, London. The Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum, and Mr. W. T. Spencer, a London print dealer, now deceased, allowed me repeatedly to examine great numbers of prints without restriction; and George Grasberger, a lifelong devotee of art, who died a few years ago, helped with his authoritative opinions when needed. 1 Most helpful of all with his practical advice and encouragement was Thomas Yoseloff, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Press, without whose aid this book would probably never have seen the light. My thanks are especially due to Wilmarth S. Lewis, Litt. D., L.H.D., who hearing of my efforts in assembling as many as possible of prints done by Isaac Cruikshank, had the several hundred that he had knowledge of made available to me. 1 Miss E. W. Binning, 224 Bruntisfield Place, Edinburgh, and C. W. Brand, F.S.G., 9 Avenue Road, Highgate, London, N. 6, both professional searchers, kindly procured foi me the new information about Isaac Cruikshank'» birth, death, relatives, will and burial.

Thanks to Mr. Lewis' list I was able to make some additions to the Catalogue Raisonné. Most of his items I already have but am glad to add the following list of titles not in our card catalogue: Back, Front and Side View of a Dutch light horseman with their improved method k of mounting. B.M. 8478- I.C. ' 7/24/1794. Faro's Daughters or the Kenyonian Blow up to the Greeks!!! B.M. 8479 A, I.C. (Isaac Cruikshank). 5/16/1796. Lilliputian Satirists. Cruikshank del. B.M. 9088 A. 6/22/1797. A Will O' the Wisp or John Bull in a Bog. I.C. Pitt as a will o' the wisp holds out a dark lantern of peace to a terrified John Bull, who struggles to step from the Slough of Despond by holding out his hands to the lantern. Besides these he sent a list of titles signed Isaac Cruikshank or I.C., which he had not been able to identify with a British Museum number. Some of these I had but the following I did not have: My Poll and My Partner Joe. The Progress of Heroism. Itinerant Dealers in Dunstable Ware. The Doctor and Unruly Patient. A School for Parsons. Contradiction or a Strange Consolation. Scotch Nightingales or a Strange Mistake. Welch Politeness. That Accounts for it.

August 4, 1790 April 9, 1796 December 17, 1796 December 20, 1797 February 26, 1798 October 10, 1798 October 10, 1798 November 14, 1798 January 15, 1799

Since the book was already on press, I have had to make these amendments in this fashion. £ . B . KRUMBHAAR

Philadelphia, June 1964.

Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Isaac Cruikshank

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The Catalogue Raisonné

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Appendix

169

References

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Index

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Plates

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ISAAC CRUIKSHANK ISAAC CRUIKSHANK WAS BORN IN EDINBURGH OCTOBER 5 ,

1764

S O M E ACCOUNTS ASSIGN

HIS

birth to Leith, the port of Edinburgh, one and a half miles distant, in 1752—and died in London in September 1810, or possibly in 1811. H e is said to have been the son of a customs house officer (perhaps a tax collector), who was a Jacobite and, after being ruined in the uprising of 1745, had devoted himself to art. As recorded in the Canongate Parish Register, Isaac was the son of Andrew Crookshanks, "indweller in Canongate," and Elizabeth Davidson (his spouse); he was baptized October 14, 1764, and was the youngest of Andrew's five children. T h e professional searcher who procured this information for me tells me that she found records of births of two other "Crookshanks" in the parishes around Edinburgh, including Leith, b u t n o other of an Isaac, or indeed of any Cruikshank in those parishes in the decade 1754-1764. Blanchard Jerrold says that the family belonged to Aberdeenshire and were still a numerous sept in 1882. T h e slight difference in the spelling of the name has little if any significance. Isaac himself and his family spelled it in several ways, e.g. Cruckshank, Cruikshank, Crukshank, Crookshank—to any of which an s might be found added. Not only were even eminent names spelled variously in the eighteenth century, b u t examples of both spellings of this obviously Scottish name can be found in standard books of reference. For instance, we find John, 1708-1795, a naval officer, and F. G. and E. M. Crookshank, prominent medical men in the early twentieth century, and, with the other spelling. William C. Cruikshank, 1745-1800, a partner of the Hunters, and author in 1786 of an important work on the lymphatics. One may wonder if this William, born in Edinburgh in 1745—the name William Crookshank appearing in the same Canongate Parish Register —may not have had a hand in bringing a young relative, Isaac, to London. For this and other reasons not mentioned here, it is not without significance that two engravings ( T h e U*****'s Introduction at St. J***s's, etc., BM 6647, and Lev in a Stone Coffin, BM 8247) should carry the words, "Published by Isaac Crookshanks, Stanhope St." [London], with the dates July 26, 1784 and January 23, 1785 respectively. T h e picture I have outlined above varies in several details from the standard accounts. Austin Dobson, 1 for instance, states that "Isaac was born in 1756(?), the son of a Lowlander, who at one time held an appointment in the Custom House at Leith, and after the '45 took to art as a profession," and that Isaac was left an orphan at an early age. Substantially the same picture is given by Reid, by Blanchard Jerrold, and in several of the longer magazine articles on the Cruikshanks. It would be interesting to know the original sources of these statements. 1 See Dictionary National Biography, Original Edition, o r p h a n is omitted from the later edition (III, 288).

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1888, X I I I , 258. T h e statement a b o u t being left an

T h e conflicts between the picture I have offered and the traditional accounts are, I think, worth some comment. T h e difference in dates has already been considered; "Lowlander" is not an incorrect term for one born in Edinburgh; and the father's job at Leith could equally well have been terminated before either 1756 or 1764. Though the Cruikshanks may have been numerous in Aberdeenshire, as Jerrold suggests (p. 24), they certainly were not numerous in Edinburgh County at that time. T h e father's taking u p art after 1745 suggests a reason for Isaac's becoming an artist, just as Isaac's sons were to follow his example in their turn. T h e father, Andrew, may well have kept u p his interest in art while earning his livelihood as a merchant, the occupation noted in the Register. Isaac's death in 1810 or 1811 was said to have been accelerated by habits of intemperance. 2 However, according to Samuel Redgrave 3 it was due to the effects of a severe cold. T o be sure, both factors might have played a part. Our search has failed to reveal any other details concerning Isaac's death or burial. T h e negative findings, however, seem worth recording, if only to save labor for some future biographer. In the parish registers of St. George Bloomsbury (Duke Street) and St. Marylebone (Dorset Street, Salisbury Place), the two parishes in which Isaac had lived, the searcher found no record of his burial in 1810 or 1811; in the Principal Probate Registry of London, likewise, no mention was found of his will; nor was anything pertinent found in the indices of the Scots Magazine * the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle or the Annual Registers' for 1810, 1811 and 1812. T h e Collections of the Society of Genealogists (London) also yielded no pertinent facts. It is probably significant that in my list of Isaac's output there are more than ten dated items by him appearing between January 15 and September 6, 1810, and then nothing more except three books in 1811 containing illustrations etched by Isaac Cruikshank. It would seem likely, then, that he died in or before September 1810, having done some etchings that were not published until 1811 or later. T h e version I have offered here has some weak points, to be sure, but to me it seems far preferable to the traditional account, which offers only an unsupported conjecture for the year of Isaac's birth, and is without any evidence as to his birthplace, parents and siblings. No undoubted portrait of Isaac Cruikshank has yet been found. An original sketch, therefore, signed with his characteristic signature "Isaac Cruikshank set." and pointing out himself and several of his family, though itself not constituting absolute proof, possesses great interest as the nearest known approach to a personal likeness. T h e circumstances are as follows. Among the items acquired by me from the Woodin sale (1942) is a pen and pencil drawing entitled, on a gray mat, in a later hand, A Dinner in a Tavern. T h e scene, a typical one for the social satirists of the period, represents several men and women a See D. N. B., loc. tit. T h e mention of intemperance appears also in the later edition. » Samuel Redgrave, 1802-1876, in the Dictionary of Artists of the English School; Painters, [etc, etc.], (London, George Bell «c Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1878, 498 pp., sm. 8vo ). T h i s brief but early account by a trained litterateur, whose life overlapped that of Isaac, is entitled to special consideration in surmising the cause of Isaac's death. •«After 1817 called The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany. 6 The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature (London, W. Otridge, 181S, 1814, 1815) . It was a bound volume of several hundred page! on, usually, ten subjects for the year covered. T h e contents of each subject were listed separately but there was no index. T h e obituary heading—of individuals' names and lives—covered from fifteen to fifty pages in the three years examined.

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seated about a table, more wining than dining, one wenching, one asleep, and a tenth lightly outlined in the background. The laid paper on which the drawing was made has "Of the Noted Bill" written in ink in one corner, as if the sheet had been torn from the taverner's ledger. This sheet had been pasted on a slightly larger backing of rough texture, down the margin of which is written in tabular form (with the first two items overlapping both sheets): "Isaac the first/Robert 2d/George 3/Percy [a nephew] 4/Douglas [unidentified] 5." The writing of these names looks like, but not exactly like, Isaac's handwriting. The first three figures from the left are carelessly sketched in, though the one-eyed and one-legged beggar has power; for a fashionably dressed woman in the rear a few rough lines suffice; and the face of the third figure is mostly hidden by a mug from which he is drinking. Two pistols and an article that looks like a face mask lie on the table. The fourth figure, "Isaac the first," which is obviously more carefully done than the others, is shown full face, in the costume of the period—a cocked hat, with coat and cuffs as of a uniform, a broad collar, riding boots and breeches. The hat shades without hiding his eyes, in which one can imagine either the dreamy look of an artist or the dejected expression of a heavy drinker. His is the only one of the ten that has any shading on the face. Next to him is Robert (also said to have contracted bad habits), who is holding a good-looking female comfortably on his lap. He is drawn more carefully than the rest. These three figures compose the centre of the picture. The others at the table are obviously not intended to be likenesses, with the possible exception of Douglas, who is asleep at the end of the table. On the mat, in addition to the title, is written in a later hand: "Original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank (signed by the artist with his full autograph signature) (The artist has also noted in the margin the names of his two (?) sons partaking of the dinner). From the Collection of Sir B. W. Richardson." Another problem in regard to Isaac's portraiture arises from a suggestion that the print A Buck of 1781 was a portrait of Isaac in his youth. This print (BM 8038),6 published by Fores in 1791 without artist's signature, though listed in the present catalogue as doubtfully by Isaac, was said by the British Museum to be a reissue of Boots and Spurs (BM 5735), a print also unsigned, and published by J. Williams in 1781. A careful comparison was therefore indicated, which was aided by the fact that the 1791 print was in my collection. The ten-year lapse in publication and the different publishers and titles were obvious; and the watermark "I. Taylor" on the later print was of no help. The slight differences reported in the plate mark sizes {y 2 inch smaller in height, inch in width) are deemed too small to be significant, and the age of the "buck" in the 1781 print is compatible with Isaac's age. A new bit of evidence was found in minute ink marks, barely visible, for several inches, first below the title and in the title itself. Examination by Mr. Carl Zigrosser, and by Miss Elizabeth Mongan, both experts in such matters, revealed that in both these places some earlier lettering on the plate had not been completely buffed, leaving traces that unfortunately remained indecipherable. The obvious deduction follows, however, that it was the original plate of 1781 with a new title and imprint. The possibility, in the light of existing evidence, that it may portray the young Isaac is thus extremely slight, but still cannot be entirely excluded. In a printed catalogue, now somewhat incomplete, of the Meirs collection of Cruik0 Here and throughout the text and annotations, the numbers following this abbreviation are those of the British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires.

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shankiana in the Princeton University Library, there is listed a "Drawing, Cruikshank, I., (A portrait of Issac Cruikshank, signed W. H. U.) 1839, pencil, Cruik IE 2705." However, it is clear both from the costume of the sitter and the date 1839, twenty-nine years after Isaac's death, that this is a portrait of his son Robert, who until 1922 was known as Isaac Robert. Little is known of Isaac's early life and education; one would like to have, for instance, even the scantiest information about the influence of his father or others on his artistic development and general education. As a young man of twenty or even younger he moved to London about 1784, but the exact year is uncertain. According to one authority, he had already been working as an etcher in Edinburgh; but certainly his output in London rapidly increased in that year. The British Museum Catalogue (Vol. 6, p. xxxm) speaks of small etchings of Edinburgh characters, similar to Kay's in subject and design, done early in 1784—more evidence pointing toward 1784 as the date of his arrival. Also it seems unlikely, though not impossible, that he had engraved plates in Edinburgh to be printed and published in London. The earliest print in my collection that is signed by Isaac, Scotch Eloquence or the Determination of a Loyal Kingdom, was dated January 30, 1784, and another, A Scotch Breeze, was also dated January 1784. The latter is recorded by the British Museum as a doubtful Isaac Cruikshank, though it favors him as the artist. These suggest that Isaac was already in London and working as an engraver in 1783. Unfortunately, both of these prints appeared without the name of a publisher or place of publication. However, it is relevant to mention that identifications on published satires, such as the artist's signature, date, name of publisher and place of publication, seem to have been less common at that time than in the following years. On this subject it can be added that a few unsigned plates dated 1782 and 1783 have earmarks suggesting the possibility that they are Isaac's work. They have been included in the Catalogue as doubtfully his. Another interesting item found in at least two of his early prints, dated 1784 and 1785, is the statement "Published by Isaac Crookshank." This form of spelling his name has already been considered earlier in this chapter. They are the only ones, to my knowledge, that are so designated. Like many a young Scot going to London, especially if he was the youngest son and had recently become an orphan, Isaac necessarily turned his hand to any work that could produce cash. This was obviously not conducive to a high type of art, and he was soon busy with such pot-boilers as lottery tickets, which he designed and etched by the score, and illustrations—often quite crude—for cheap books and chapbooks. Caricatures, social and political, were executed as was generally the custom, without regard to which party or what principles they supported. Not long after his arrival in London, Isaac married Mary McNaughton (F. G. Stephens in his Memoir of George Cruikshank spells it with an e), who is variously described as a member of a Perth family and by a certain Dr. Charles Mackie, as a daughter of a sailor, a naval officer of Inverary (See Stephens' Memoir). But whatever her parentage, she was a very remarkable woman, strong-willed and dominant, frugal and industrious, who managed to bring up her children well. They went to an elementary school at Edgeware and attended Church of Scotland services in Crown Court regularly on Sundays. Mary helped her husband with his work and contended fairly well with his growing tendency toward alcoholic conviviality. She later boasted that she had succeeded in putting by a 18

thousand pounds—no mean sum in those days. George often spoke proudly of his mixed descent from a Highland mother and Lowland father. Isaac and Mary first lived on Duke Street, Bloomsbury, where Robert and George were born (1786 and 1792). They also had a daughter, Elizabeth, who shared the family talent for drawing, but died young of consumption. After a few years, the family moved to 117 Dorset Street, Salisbury (London). In the routine production of Isaac's engravings, the procedure was developed of Isaac etching the copper from his pencilled and watercolor designs, while his wife did the hand coloring and some lettering. As the boys matured, they too were allowed to do some coloring and lettering and even to etch simple items in backgrounds. George's cooperation especially continued to improve, so that plates from 1800 on have tended increasingly to be regarded as due to both George and Isaac. Jerrold's statement that George's first pencilling was dated 1799 (this would be more accountably stated "was done in") would indicate his ability to draw well at seven years. It is certain at least that he soon assisted his father more and more, often doing the major part of a plate or even occasionally publishing some from his mid-teens on independently. Years later in a letter to his friend G. W. Reid, the compiler of the great Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank (1871), after praising his father's artistic ability, George wrote: "When I was a mere boy my dear father kindly allowed me to play at etching on some of his copper plates little bits of shadows, or little figures in the background, and to assist him a little as I grew older, and he used to assist me in putting in hands and faces." This incidentally demonstrates the difficulty in attempting to assign an unsigned plate to one or the other —in fact, George himself more than once allowed that he could not say whether a given piece was cut by him or his father. George, when he was an old man, inscribed a number of copies owned by his friends, such as W. T . Spencer and A. M. Broadley, with notes such as "Almost entirely by my father. G. Ck.," or "Only the pictures on the wall by me," and these have often helped to identify the artist in unsigned or doubtful cases. In a few instances, however, it has been maintained that the old gentleman's memory was at fault and the allocation erroneous. I have been able to find forty-seven prints thus inscribed by George as his father's work, some in my own collection, others as noted elsewhere. It is puzzling that many of the prints are signed "Cruikshanks" (plural or possessive?), some of them too early for the participation of a son to have been indicated. Other possible explanations are that the s indicates sculpsit, though not always, as in some cases it is followed by the usual sc or scp. More probably it was but another example of the same carelessness that spelled the family name in several ways. By 1794 the Cruikshanks had become well established in their Dorset Street home. They were sociably inclined and took in travelling guests—Mungo Park, the well-known explorer, for instance, is known to have stayed there. They had frequent visitors, including George Dawe, later a member of The Royal Academy, to whom Isaac had given art lessons when Dawe was a poor boy. Isaac was a good entertainer at dinner, with stories such as those of his father's experience at the battle of Culloden and his own activity as a private in St. Giles' and St. George's Bloomsbury Volunteers. The gorgeous uniform of this latter organization is said to have been perpetuated in a sketch by Rowlandson. Isaac, according to one authority, exhibited three times at the Royal Academy: The Return to Lochaber (1789), A Visit to the Cottage (1790) and The Distresses and Triumphs of Virtue (1792). If these were watercolors, they would not appear in the British Museum 19

Catalogue of Prints and Drawings. I do not know what has become of them. They date early in Isaac's career and should have led to more such productions, yet he is said not to have been mentioned in the standard works on painting. An unlikely tale connected with the Royal Academy is that a Cruikshank relative who worked for Samuel Johnson once got him to ask Sir Joshua Reynolds, then its president, to give Isaac a chair at that institution, but was unsuccessful in the attempt. He is said to have done the title page of a book by Samuel Johnson, and to have illustrated several of the works of Swift and of Miller. Isaac had a ready wit, which served him well in creating his designs for cartoons, and if his humor may at times seem to us crude, we should remember that such humor was a characteristic of the times. In his contacts with artists and actors, he indulged in alcoholic drinks in increasing amounts, and has been called by some a chronic alcoholic. However, his steady work at his profession throughout the twenty-six years of his professional life, and his frugal wife's ability to put by a considerable accumulation of cash, are good evidence that alcohol had not greatly damaged his artistic capability. Isaac's annual output of political and social satires through the eighties was relatively small, but then reached a maximum, according to the Index of Artists in Volume 7 of the British Museum Catalogue, from 1793 to 1797, when 278 items are listed under his name. In the next five years, the number fell to eighty-seven, but increased considerably in 1803 (the year of Napoleon's threatened invasion of England.) Then it lagged for three years, for reasons that are not apparent, to rise again between 1807 and 1809, in which years 171 items were ascribed to him. It then fell to the low level of eighteen in 1810, the probable year of his death. Such figures, however, can have only relative and approximate value for more than one reason; for instance, according to the method just used, one plate would be counted twice if two of the Cruikshanks had been credited with a share in the production. However, the importance of this last is discounted by the fact that in another analysis 202 items were attributed to Isaac alone, as compared to seventyone allocated to Isaac and George. Also, on the other side of the problem, there are always the possibilities of some unsigned engravings of Isaac's being erroneously ascribed by a critic to some other artist, or that more of his work was unsigned or had escaped recognition than had that of others. That these variations probably are significant is worth consideration, especially when the output from 1801 to 1810 of Isaac and George is compared with that of four of the leading publishers of caricatures—Ackermann, Fores, Tegg, and Laurie & Whittle. These show in general a similar rise and fall of production —a natural result, presumably, of the potent happenings during the decade 1801-1810. The collapse of Napoleon's plan to invade England accounts for the smaller output in 1805 than in the two preceding years. The actual date of Isaac's last composition is hard to determine with any accuracy. This is not only because of his close cooperation with George, and of plates being signed "Cruikshank" without initials (with or without the final s), but also because the date of publication of a real Isaac Cruikshank design may have been some time after Isaac's death. In the case of a reissue, this could amount to several years. These difficulties are illustrated in a survey made of Cruikshank engravings published in 1810. For instance, the song sheet heading, Bang-up—Random—or Tandem (April 4) bears the signature "Cruikshank del," which BM 11700 ascribes to Isaac—rightly, I believe, since on one impression George has written "from a drawing by my father I Cruikshank." Another published five 20

days later, Sir Francis Burdett Taken from his House, is twice signed "Cruikshank del." Since there is no way of telling which Cruikshank is meant, I have entered this as a doubtful Isaac; Cohn and others have passed over the ambiguity in silence. How should The Last Grand Ministerial Expedition, which is initialled "ICk," be allocated? One authority quotes George Cruikshank as having inscribed an impression as wholly by his father except the man on the ladder, whereas Cohn (item No. 1305) states that "the Bruton copy was autographed by G. C. as the joint work of his father and himself." Either could be right. The closest answer would be "By I Ck [and G. C.]." Britannia's Visit to the Tower (May 16) is initialled " I Ck." Folkestone Strawberries (June 20, Fores), unsigned, is listed by BM (No. 11565) as [I. and G. Cruikshank], whereas Cohn (item 1117) thinks that a small part of the work is by G. C. but that it is chiefly by I. C. The Heads of the Nation (June 20, Fores), signed "Cruikshank sculp.," is attributed by BM 11564 to Isaac and doubtfully to George. And finally two Scottish satires (published by Tegg on August 16 and September 6) exhibit similar difficulties in allocation. The former, Scotch Washing, "Cruikshank [sic] del," is accepted by Cohn as probably the joint work of Isaac and George—as is the second, The Scotch Cottage at Glenburnia, "Cruikshank del," though on Mr. Spencer's copy is inscribed, "Not any of this by me G Ck." T o return to Isaac as an artist, with his family helping, as has already been noted, he worked hard. This, however, did not always make for a high level of careful work. Not only are the colors of costumes and other details found to vary considerably in different copies from the same plate, but often they have been washed on so carelessly that they grossly miss the boundary set by the etched line. In one case I found an omitted word etched in beyond the edge of the design, though still within the plate marks. Isaac both designed and engraved from the designs of other artists, such as Woodward, who has been said not to have been sufficiently trained to etch his own plates. Isaac was at times careless or hasty, especially in his original sketches, where he probably was concerned only with an improvement in design as long as it was clear to the etcher. For instance, included in my collection are two wherein each of the figures has three legs ( T h e Daughter under her Father's Suspicion and A Court Bow to an Absolute Monarch), and another engraving that has a head and body but no legs. His subjects were usually treated in a light and humorous way, though he could on occasion be as caustic as Gillray in castigating those in high society, or grimly stern, as in the plate of the execution of Louis XVI. He had early begun etching illustrations for a publisher named Roach for cheap books of a jocose, poetical or theatrical nature (Bon T on Royal Jester, 1792; Beauties of the Modern Poets, 1793; Extracts of Prosaic [i.e., prose] Writers, 1795; Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room, 1796; etc.). As a frequent visitor to Roach's dwelling in Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, Isaac met there Edmund Kean, then an obscure actor. This began a family friendship which continued long after Isaac's death, when Kean had become a world-famed tragedian. By the mid-nineties, Isaac was generally recognized as capable, vigorous and successful. Blanchard Jerrold described him as first a struggling Scotch artist, though later a successful artist and a first-class painter and engraver. Jerrold spoke of him as equal with his contemporaries after Gillray and Rowlandson. T o me, this would seem more properly expressed as "the third of the three leaders and superior to the rest." Among the better known of the political satires of Isaac's mid-period are: The Royal Extinguisher (Pitt), 21

1795; The Watchman of the State (Fox), 1797; Billy's Raree Show or John Bull Enlighten'd 1797; and A Flight across the Herring Pool, 1800. Thomas Wright was not alone in regarding Isaac as "among the most active and certainly the most successful of the caricaturists at the beginning of the nineteenth century." T h e editor of the British Museum's great Catalogue speaks of Isaac as original, prolific, varied and humorous. Ralph Edwards, 7 a recent writer on British art, emphasizing the rare excellence of Isaac's political cartoons, says in his Isaac Cruikshank that "nothing more infused by the pure spirit of caricature is to be found in his generation," and that between 1794 and 1810 he could enumerate at least a score that give a "happy sense of spontaneity and in wit and in force are worthy to be compared with anything of their kind." Why then has Isaac not been recognized as constituting with Gillray and Rowlandson a leading trio in the brilliant British group of caricaturists? T h e greater reputation of his son George, probably the foremost of all British illustrators, naturally comes to mind as one reason for his father's being overshadowed. Another explanation has been offered by Edwards: the alleged great unevenness of his work. T o be sure, some of it is mediocre: penny caricatures turned out the same day as the news arrived, or to pay for some wine; cheap chapbook illustrations—the goods gauged to match the pay—poor work, perhaps, but not a fair measure of ability, and to be said with truth also of Gillray and Rowlandson. Isaac's tendency toward alcoholic excesses may well have been a factor in some cases. He was said to have imitated Gillray in some subjects that the latter had chosen, but it was not unnatural that two friends hearing perhaps at the same time of some important event would be similarly inspired. Analysis shows, too, that sometimes Isaac's cartoon with the same title had appeared well before Gillray's. Granted that his caricatures were not infrequently coarse, even obscene, and his jokes at times weak or pointless to the twentieth-century mind, it must also be recognized that the same criticism can be made with even more justification about Gillray, Rowlandson and lesser artists who were without the saving grace of an artistic ability equal to that of the leading three. I regret that I have not been able to make an adequate detailed comparative study of these three. Their coarseness was the custom of the times; doubtless the Victorians would be equally censorious of the treatment of sex in our literature today. But Cruikshank could also rise to sensitive, tender heights in his portrayals of beauty, and to an artistic skill that equalled that of any of his contemporaries. These qualities are seen especially in his original sketches, (as described in my catalogue raisonné). Even his etchings done after designs by Woodward and others have been recognized as having touches that made them characteristically his own. In his drawings, even when done carelessly, each detail had its significance. When executed with care, there is never a false value, each line or shading contributing to the life and solidity of the subject. One would like to know more about the attending circumstances of Isaac's more careful work; whether it was done on a commission, for instance, or in preparation for a more elaborate effort, or perhaps just for the joy of transferring life to a flat surface by means of his art. In such cases it would not seem to be an exaggeration, at any rate, to maintain that in his drawings his best is equal to that of any of his colleagues in the same field. Like his brother caricaturists, Isaac gradually developed conventional types to represent the various nations and classes appearing in his political satires, especially in the cases 7 See Burlington

Magazine

for Connoisseurs

(London, 1928), LU, 184-185.

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of John Bull and Napoleon. T h o u g h the type was not always followed, the likenesses were sufficiently characteristic to have been helpfui in identifying more than one unsigned plate. John Bull, for instance, who was invented in 1712 by Dr. John Arbuthnot 8 before 1793 had often been portrayed as a young farmer or even an artisan. In Isaac's plates, as in those of other cartoonists, he became gradually more obese, his obesity being used as a sign of the nation's prosperity. Similarly, Gillray made use of this same characteristic when he depicted, in a cartoon of January 1, 1803, a very fat Britannia to represent the prosperity following the Peace of Amiens. John Bull's appearance as a yokel is a type said to have been created by Gillray, but for Gillray not only was the face constructed differently but the expression usually showed an underlying bitterness or savagery. In Isaac's hands his features had an element of good-humored tolerance, and an underlying cheerfulness combined with good common sense. Only when appearing angry with the French or complaining of excessive taxes and the like, were John's features stern. Anyone familiar with these two differing artistic concepts should not have much difficulty in telling them apart. As the world political situation became graver, John became more important as a political critic; in one print even the powerful Pitt was shown to be approaching him with deference. Napoleon was almost as frequently the subject of satire during Isaac's most active working period as was John Bull. At one time I thought I could allocate Isaac's presentation of Napoleon's features to three categories: the earliest (purely imaginative, when his appearance was quite unknown to the English) ; a second, handsome and young before he became a dangerous threat; a third, hardened and cruel. Closer study of available prints, however, has led me to the conclusion that Isaac did not attempt to picture Napoleon with the consistency that he used for the royal family, Pitt, Fox and the other British statesmen in their various moods. Nor could an accurate likeness be expected before the days of photography, so that exactness of portrayal in those days was not an important consideration for the artist. Incidentally, I have never seen an original sketch of Napoleon by Isaac made for the many plates signed by him or published as his work. Of the other countries that were important enough to be allotted a conventional type, the Dutch were often given exaggeratedly large round heads—usually fullfaced—or the heads of frogs, suggested by their swampy coasts. This frog symbol had already been established in English satire before Isaac's time. T h e French usually appeared thin and excitable, or emaciated, if at war with England; the Spaniard was portrayed in a costume of trunks, hose, ruff, cloak and feathered hat. Included less frequently, the Prussians and Austrians appear as tall, thin soldiers, with pigtails and huge mustaches. A Russian is usually a bear, an Italian a greyhound, and a Dane a mouse. An American torpedo and a Swiss cheese are less easily understood. 8 Arbuthnot described him as choleric, bold and of an inconsistent temper, but easily led by

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flattery.

THE CATALOGUE RAISONNE

CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORK OF ISAAC CRUIKSHANK THE ITEMS IN THIS CATALOGUE ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY THE FIRST WORD OF THE

title. T h e list aims to include as many discoverable items as possible that present reasonable evidence that they were done wholly or in part by Isaac Cruikshank; or, if unsigned by him, are in my opinion as likely to have been done by him as any other artist, or even more so. It contains a little more than 1,400 entries, the great majority properly ascribable to him. A tally made of random selections amounting to about one sixth of the items in the Catalogue reveals that about one half bore his signature (in full, initialled or without an Isaac). Of the bracketed items (i.e., unsigned but generally accepted as by Isaac) there were slightly more than a quarter; in the uncertain group, slightly fewer than a quarter. There are also 147 more doubtful items listed in the Appendix. T h e exact number of works executed by him, naturally, will never be known. Some items may have been wrongly included because of errors in judgment or lack of acquaintance with available evidence; but these doubtless would be more than counterbalanced numerically by others not appearing in standard sources, and by trivia, whose authorship has long been forgotten or perhaps was never known. T h e list includes some of Isaac's original sketches, also engravings (social and political), books illustrated by him, separate illustrations from books, and miscellaneous items such as etchings on glass, woodcuts and so on. T h e term "engraving" has been used to include lithographs, mezzotints, stipples and special processes, as well as the usual etchings and line engravings on copper. Isaac's signature appears occasionally with Cruikshank without the i. The IC may least one plate (General Fast)

both in full and in initials, with and without the Isaac, and spelled with double o, or with a second c, or a final s, or be in block or cursive form, the I resembling a T. On at both block and cursive are found. In one engraving (Birds

of a Feather), the initials were engraved vertically

^

a

plate is unsigned but generally

accepted as by Isaac (as for instance in the British Museum Catalogue), an IC appears bracketed [IC]; if an unsigned item is in doubt, it appears as [?IC]. Where conflicting authorships have been found, this is usually stated in the description, the one that seems preferable being given nearer the beginning of the item's second paragraph. T h e general arrangement of the material presented in each item is as follows: Paragraph 1 includes title, date of publication and publisher (place of publication is assumed to be London unless otherwise stated). Next come special details, such as the given number in a series (it is noted that identical plates may have different numbers 27

when used in different series), and group, such as "A droll," "Caricature Magazine," etc. Paragraph 2 gives the artist's names (del and/or sculp.), followed by the authorities cited, and their comments. In Paragraphs 3 and 4 are general descriptions and comments (political, social, topographical, etc.). Where no description is given, this is because none was found in the source of my information. For books illustrated by Isaac, such as Eccentric Excursions, a similar arrangement was followed so far as possible, but with obvious differences, such as giving the size of the book, number of pages, and illustrations. The word Book, bracketed, appears preceding this information. Separate book illustrations, which were mostly frontispieces, are listed either by title or under the letter F with a cross-reference to the title. Items reproduced in the plates section are indicated by a dagger. An asterisk at the upper left-hand corner of an item indicates that it is in my own collection, thus showing an original source for the description and comments. All have been checked against available authorities. Here again, the British Museum Catalogue has been invaluable—rarely indeed is a wanted item not found in it. Without it I could not have adequately prepared this catalogue raisonné. Lengthy transcripts I have used but seldom; and then have placed them between quotes. In Reid's cyclopedic Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank, the first of the three volumes gives descriptions of over five thousand items, including a number published before the year 1811, that are wholly or partly by Isaac. Some that I have met only in Reid's work are set down there as if he had not intended to be giving an official title. These, when used, have been placed between brackets; an example is ["Another etching relative to the OP riots"]. Among the items in this list that might be specially noted are the first cartoon signed by Isaac Cruikshank (Scotch Eloquence, January 1784); the earliest English caricature of Napoleon (Buonaparte at Rome giving Audience in State, March 12, 1797, signed I. Ck.); the one hundred plates of the book Eccentric Excursions, designed by Woodward and engraved by Isaac; and many of the original drawings and watercolors executed by Isaac that are not recorded elsewhere. The "drolls," amounting to several hundred items, were published by Laurie & Whittle—not too carefully executed—and were advertised as suitable for sale by country booksellers. They were frequently unsigned and not all done by Cruikshank. A number of items, appearing in the Isaac section of Rosenbach's Cruikshank Catalogue unsupported by other evidence, have been placed in the Appendix as doubtfully by Isaac Cruikshank. The Caricature Magazine was an accumulation of caricatures published by Tegg, issued between 1807 and 1821. It is not possible to be definite about the artists contributing to this set, since it was reissued with so many different single plates that even the great collections do not contain the same ones or the same numbers. Cohn, in his analysis of The Caricature Magazine, mentions only twenty-eight as by Isaac —very probably an understatement. A few single plates of this series are found in this catalogue. In the case of some unsigned items (mostly in the BM Catalogue), it has seemed to Mr. Spencer or me that the attribution to a given artist (perhaps with a question mark) was unlikely or actually wrong. This applies especially to the work of Williams (Ansell). If the style seemed more like IC's, I have listed the item as "?IC," retaining the other artist's name just after that of the authority who so ascribed it. Good examples of Isaac's use of stippling—a form of engraving which became popular especially for light social satires during his period—are found in the two small ovals The 28

Sportsmen's Departure and The Sportsmen Resting; also in the portrait of Napoleon in Corry's Life, and in the print Scotch Washing (1809, BM 11476). The combination of this technique with line engraving for important parts, such as the faces of the chief figures, can be seen more often, as in the face of Mrs. Nicholson in the cartoon An Exact Representation of an Attempt made to Stab his Majesty (BM 6973) and others. On small areas and in larger sized dots this technique is not at all uncommon in items in this catalogue. Lithographs are not common; one example is the print Scotch Washing (1810, BM 11477). Lithography, like stippling, was a recent development, popularized by Senefelder in 1794. Mezzotints, though at their peak in the eighteenth century, are found but rarely in Isaac's work. (Cp. Let us all be unhappy together, (item 640 in my rise.) I have not seen this cartoon and suspect that it may be a reprinting of an original by a different technique.) Aquatints are more common. Woodcuts are found in some of the Twelfth Night illustrations. (See note in Douglas under item 1400.) The size of the cartoons varies greatly. The plates usually measured from 7 to 9 inches in one dimension and from 12 to 18 inches in the other. They are generally greater in the horizontal than the vertical, except in the song sheets and some speeches. The largest in my collection measures 15x22 inches, but considerably larger items are on record. These are found folded (e.g. A Long String of Resolutions for a New Year [item 666 in this collection], a plate about six feet long) or, rarely in a roll. Advertisements Illustrated, 25 inches long, is said to be the central part of such a strip. Most of the small book illustrations are between 3x4 and 4x6 inches, and especially in chapbooks are often not carefully executed.

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Catalogue Raisonné ('Asterisk indicates a copy in this collection.)

[1]

ABOLITION O F T H E SLAVE TRADE

(THE) .

April 10, 1792. Fores. [I. CruikshankJ BM 8079. This engraving depicts the cruel treatment of a negro girl on the deck of a slave ship. Some 30 lines are on Wilberforce's speech in the House on April 2, urging abolition.

[2] • A C T I N G MAGISTRATES C O M M I T T I N G

THEMSELVES,

being their first appearance on the Stage, as performed at the National Theatre, Covent Garden. September 2, 1809. No publisher. Unsigned. BM 11418: [I. and G. Cruikshank] P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2546. Reid 83. Douglas 957. On W. T . Spencer's copy (1931): "Designed and etched by my Father Isaac Cruikshank, the little figures in the boxes by me." Cohn, 865: "Chiefly the work of Isaac Cruikshank." Relates to the O.P. riots, which broke out on the opening day of the performance. One of the three magistrates on the stage starts to read the Riot Act. Kemble stands behind them, with hands clasped as if in prayer. Mr. Joshua Read, Nares and another magistrate, and Townsend, the Bow Street officer, try to intimidate the audience, who only laugh at them.

PI ADDRESS T O T H E BRITISH SOLDIERS T O F I G H T T H E FRENCH

("With verses by Isaac Cruikshank.") Size, 15% x IO14 in. Unsigned. [?I C] An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 248.10. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, N. Y. C., 1942). This item is of extra interest as the only instance found that records Isaac as an author of verses. [4] ADDRESS T O T H E P E O P L E O F GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.

By John Corry. [Book] 8vo. B. Crosby, 1803.

Frontispiece (folding, colored) of Napoleon and George III, signed [Isaac] Cruikshank. [5] #

f ADMINISTERING TO AN OLD FRIEND!! RAPID EFFECTS O F WHITBREADS INTIREl

OR

THE

April 25, 1805. Fores. Isaac Cruikshank. BM 10392. Melville, seated, vomits guineas into a cylinder marked "Naval Reservoir." Pitt expresses sympathy and offers some of his drops of forgetfulness.

[6] ADVANTAGE O F TOPING

(THE) .

Dec. 1, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. Heading to printed verses (46 11.): Written and Sung, with unbounded Applause, by Charles Dibdin, Senior, Esq. A droll. 477. [I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10956. A.S.W.R., p. 216. Men around a table, drinking: some sit or stand, one lying on the floor, one asleep. T h e chairman, with raised glass, is singing. The refrain begins, "Then all get drunk if you wish to be happy." [7] [ADVERTISEMENTS ILLUSTRATEDl]

June 7, 1794. Holland. Unsigned. J. Nixon del., [?I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8548. Said to be the central part of a strip design (10x25 inches). Beneath the figures are the following advertisements: 1, "Domestic Hack"; 2, "Patty Rosey"; 3, "Scotch Dancing"; 4, "Washing Machine." An old crone, inspecting a ragged garment, tells a buxom young woman that she has washed it into a thousand holes.

S

[8]

ADVERTISEMENTS ILLUSTRATED]

une 7, 1794. Holland. I. [/.] Nixon Esqr. delin. [?I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8549. Probably from the same design listed in the previous item (10^x25}4 inches). Here are il30

lustra ted: 1, "Matrimony"; 2, "Read this, Ye British Fair" (for a cosmetic); 3, "Thirty Thousand Pounds!!!" A surly clerk behind the counter of a lottery office is beseiged by angry prizewinners. [9] AFFECTING NARRATIVE O F THE DEPOSITION, TRIAL, AND EXECUTION O F LOUIS XVI.

Frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank. [Book] 12mo. 53 pages. London, 1854. No author or publisher mentioned. Chubbock, P. 24, No. 27. [10] AFFECTING SCENE IN T H E DOWNS (AN) .

August 1809 [Reissued September, October]. Johnston. George Cruikshank. [I C SC.] BM 11357. Reid 81. Cohn 872: "The figures etched by my father from a drawing by me except the shipin the distance, which was etched by my ler IRC—who had just returned from sea at that time. This (x) figure by me George Cruikshank." Lord Castlereagh, being rowed in a small boat, waves good-by to Sir William Curtis, who sits on the deck of his yacht surrounded by fine provisions of all kinds. Seven verses are beneath in type; the first runs: "All in the Downs the Fleet was moor'd/The streamers waving in the wind,/When Castlereagh appeared on board,/ "Ah, where shall I my Curtis find?/Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true,/If my pet William sails among your crew?' " / " T h e artists' initials appear on the side of the yacht."

Q

["] • F AFTERNOON'S VISION (AN) , OR, SEASONABLE ADVICE FROM CHATHAM TO PITT.

Title repeated on mount by Temple Scott. lOx ll7/ 8 in. Bought by me at the Woodin sale, 1942 (item 184.14, p. 39). Isaac Cruikshank. Original colored sketch, done between 1778 and 1783. (Pitt born 1759; Chatham died 1778; Pitt Prime Minister December 1793.) Chatham, in a cloud and holding a Bill of Rights, advises the sleeping Pitt: "Be to their faults a little blind,/ Be to their virtues very kind/ Let all their tongues be unconfin'd/ For padlocks ne'er can touch the mind."

[IS] ALARMING SITUATION

(AN) .

Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. I.C. An original watercolor, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.6 (ParkeBernet Gall., Jan. 6-8, 1942) Size 10i/2x 13 in. [14] •ALAS," MARIA I

[Illustration opposite p. 123 of Savillon's Elegies, q.v., 1795.1 I. Cruikshanks del. Author Invent. B. Reading Sculp. Engraved beneath the title, a four-line stanza, from the first line of which the title is taken. See also an uncolored copy in the set listed under [Book Illustrations from Savillon's Elegies]. [15] [ALE FOR A MOUNTED YOKEL]

IC. An original signed drawing for a ballad (unpublished) in sixteen verses in county dialect "in the hand writing of Isaac Cruikshank." From the Woodin sale cat., item 185.5 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942) Ca. 13x16 in. "A barmaid serving mounted country bumpkin with ale."

[16] or each Emperor his deserts. Isaac Cruikshank. Original pencil drawing (lettering in ink). 1805. Never published. In collection of A. M. Broadley (1910). Broadley 1, 230 (reproduced); 2, 292 no. 8. Napoleon says, "I wish I was safe home again." Alexander cries, "Death or Victory." An Angel above him says, "Fame, Honor and Glory shall reward you," while a devil answers Bonaparte, "Don't fear that, my darling. I'll see you safe home. I have been waiting on you for a long time." ALEXANDER AND BONAPARTE;

[17] • A L L E M A N D (AN) .

April 8, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc Exc: Pl. 91. (No page given.) Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9153. A couple enjoy doing this high-stepping dance.

[12]

[•AGREEABLE CHARACTER IN A POST-CHAISE (AN) ]

[17a] Nov. 1796: Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PL 36, p. 99. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8963. ALLENROD or, the mysterious Freebooter by C. F. A half-length portrait of a pleasant-featured, Barrett. Frontispiece: Cruikshank del. Turnbull robust character wearing a pink-dotted waistsculp. May 1806. "A figure in black armour coat, blue coat and low-crowned black hat.

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[21]

stood, between Allenrod and his intended bride." [Book] London. A Neil. Sold by T . Hughes. 38 pp. 12mo. Price 6d. From the Wendell Collection, Harvard College Library (in H.E.W. Memorial Room).

•ANTICIPATION.

Feb. 9, 1784. Fores. "Second Sketch." Unsigned. p i C j (Too early to be signed?) (IC in pencil by an unknown modern hand) (BM 6407 names no artist.) Broadley, (1, 119) takes this plate as illustrating the anxiety of the British Eublic over the possible capture of Napoleon y Nelson. Fox and Lord North boxing. Fox says, "Thus let me wipe dishonor from my name, and hurl thee to the earth, thou stain to goodness—" North replies, "Perdition take thee, villain, for thy falshood [sic]! Now nothing but thy life can make atonement." There seems to have been no foundation for such an expression of antagonism.

[18] or Voluntary Contri butions for carrying on the war. [1796] [Fores'j Size, 125/4x18 in. Woodward Delin. [?I. Cruishank (sic)] in pencil. (Not found in BM.) T h e second of five bound together, all designed by Woodward and (?) engraved by I. Cruikshank. T e n characters, each offering u p his bit on his own altar. Legends above each give details of the gift. •ALTARS O F REFORMATION

[22]

[18a]

or Taxes as they will be I! Np., n.d. [1796. Fores.] Woodward del. [I. Cruikshank] in pencil. Not indexed in BM vols. 6-8. In a bound set of five, this and some others have been cut so close that date and publisher are lost; when present, they are as given above. Six groups. In each case, a tax assessor finds absurd reasons for taxing the protesting citizen. •ANTICIPATION,

• A M U S E M E N T FOR J O H N BULL, or the Flying Camp. July 24, 1792. J. Aickin. 1C (just above title). BM 8116. Military movements in the air seen at the camp at Bagshot, which was formed to introduce new maneuvers.

[19] judgment against lying. Mar. 10, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11247. Reid (66): inscription by GC. Mrs. Clarke, at the bar of the House of Commons, denounces General Clavering, who was shortly after committed to Newgate for lying. "Would you also defend a cause at the expence of truth?!!" He starts back as a cherub carries above him a symbol reading, "He is no respector of persons"; and a jailer behind him, holding handcuffs, says, "Aha, what another customer." Captain Sandon (?), prostrate on the floor, holds u p a hand in protest. Sheridan (?): "For sure a pair was never seen so justly formed to meet by nature." He and the jailer at the sides, and Mrs. Clarke in the centre, balance the composition skilfully. Reid includes a verse: "Have we not known nor heard or read / ' H o w God abhors deceit and wrong,/HoW H** # *y S * # # # n was struck dead./Caught with a lie upon his tongue." ••ANANIAS

AND CLAVIRA—or

[23] Buonaparte really takenl! August 13, 1798. Fores. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9241: [? Ansell], Broadley 2, p. 293, no. 19; 1, 119 (reproduced opp. p. 114) attributes this plate to Isaac Cruikshank. Quoted by Ashton (p. 45) as showing a vast amount of humor. A booth in a country fair, where a zany in tricolor (Fox, weeping) is showing to a lot of yokels a highly imaginative canvas of Napoleon (a huge mouth and teeth, goggle eyes, two daggers and immense boots and spurs) in captivity. Pitt, who is sitting in a chair with left leg swollen and elevated because of his gout, says he does not mean to deceive them; he (Napoleon) is really taken and in the booth. Reports of Bonaparte's capture in the Mediterranean by Nelson were actually being circulated. "Bony Parte," having become an important person, was taken up by the caricaturists and lampooned frequently. ANTICIPATION—WAYS AND MEANS—or

[20] • A N C I E N T K MODERN ARMOUR CONTRASTED.

March 4, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PL 73 [p. 166]. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9136. Two military with the dress and accoutrements of the day inspect a man in full armor with lance, shield, sword and helmet.

[24] [•ANTIQUARIANS VIEWING QUEEN'S CROSS]

Dec. 17, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 46, p. 112. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8972. Two antiquarians inspect the monument to Queen Eleanor, while a simple citizen gazes at it in awe.

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[25] ANTIQUITIES OF MALMESBURY

(THE) .

Feb. 14, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8063. A Dr. Wilkins, who controlled the thirteen Electors of Malmesbury, leads the seven elderly men of the title, ten of whom were unable to write. Their only function was to return to Parliament those persons named by the patron. [26] APOLLYON, T H E DEVIL'S GENERALISSIMO, ADDRESSING HIS LEGIONS! I

Oct. 7, 1808. Publisished [sic] by R. Ackermann. [Cruikshank del.] BM 11044: [G. and/or I.C.]. Cohn 891. Reid 49. Ashton, p. 297 (with reproduction). Napoleon, with cloven hoofs, holding a flag emblazoned with a skeleton having two heads, exhorts his troops and "Legions of Death." After having ravished, murdered and plundered on the banks of the Danube, he demonstrates how religion and loyalty are contaminated on the Continent. He sends large reinforcements to Spain and Portugal and to the Vistula, saying, " I shall order you to march through France, [etc.]." [27] APOLOGIES FOR TIPPLING.

May 1, 1798. Fores. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. Not found in BM. Sessler (1917), no. 17. Spencer (1929), no. 21 J . B. Townsend Collection. A series of single figures of six men and seven women.

•ARMORIAL BEARINGS FOR DEALERS IN T H E MARVELLOUS! I

Dec. 3, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 42 (no. p.— no.). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8969. "Explanation" of the bearings states that "the quarterings are a Brazen head—Munchausen on his eagle—A Catalogue of Miracles—and A Saint with his head in his hand; the Supporters are an Ancient Monk, and a Modern Traveller;— The Motto is borrowed from the famous Katterfeltos's advertisements, and the Crest is meant to represent a Long Bow and a Bundle of Crackers!!" The motto is "Wonders! Wonders!! Wonders!!!" The monk is barefooted and bald; the modern traveller is a mustachioed hussar in floppy boots and black clothes. [31]

M.p. ( T H E ) . Frontispiece from Walker's "Full account of the arrest of Sir F. B." 12mo. London. Walker. 1810. Cruikshanks del. BM 11550: [I (and ? G) Cks.]. Cohn 102. Reid 105. P.U.M.E.: Cruik 1810.3. Burdett stands between his brother, Jones, and Roger O'Connor in his drawing room while the warrant is being read by Mr. Colman, Sergeant-at-Arms. Lady Burdett, weeping, is with her son Robert, who holds a copy of Magna Charta in his hand. The Life Guards are seen through the window. ARREST OF SIR F* BURDETT,

[32] ASSASSINATION.

Versailles, Oct. 6, 1789. August 19, 1790. Fores. IC. BM 7668: [I. Cruikshank], A smaller copy bears the signature IC (Challamel, 1, 69). An officer of the Garde du Corps defends Louis, Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin; Orleans and Mirabeau, disguised as women, are the villains.

[28]

[APPREHENDING TWO MEN.] Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 245.5. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942.) Size, 8y 4 \7y 4 in. Made for an illustration to the book "Harry Dornton" (Laurie 8c Whittle).

[33] *"At this second interview he was introduced to Monsieur Forhele, who received him with civil reserve and distant courtesy." Vide page 5. Vol. 2. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. Published by J . Roach. Nov. 30, 1795. Cruikshank del. Sansom sculpt. A young man, standing before a kneeling young woman—to the right an older man, with an arm in sling, seated near another woman.

[29]

(THE) , or Chivalry revived by Don Quixote de St. Omer and his friend Sancho. Jan. 31, 1791. Fores. IC. BM 7824: [Cruikshank], Burke, as Don Quixote with a Jesuit biretta, stands on a five-headed monster, four of the heads with crowns. Labels issuing from Burke's mouth address Louis and Marie Antoinette and various processions, English and French. One of several satires on Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution before the Reign of Terror. •ARISTOCRATIC CRUSADE

[34] •ATLAS OF T H E LANDED INTEREST

Feby. 18, 1784. Bretherton. 33

(THE) .

sculpt. Published by J . Roach, Feby. 10th 1796. No title. Engr. title page. [Book] 12mo. Pp. 130. In 5 parts. J . Roach.

I.C. (sculp, left lower corner.) BM 6413: " J S (Sayers)"; but this is really IC, with part of the C lacking because it is at the very edge of the plate. Bretherton is similarly not completely inked in my copy. Thomas Powys is carrying on his shoulder a large bundle marked "Landed Interest. Fox," etc.

Feby- 10 th, 1796.

Copy 1. (See above.) Copy 2. Same title, substituting "for 1799" "for 1796." Pp. 107. Frontispiece: T h e Castle Spectre. Cruikshank del. Murray sc. Printed title page. Copy 3. Same title, substituting "for 1800." Pp. 108. Printed title page. Index contains names of 100 actors. No frontispiece. Copy 4. Same title, substituting "for 1801." Pp. 119. Printed title page. No frontispiece. Copy 5. Same title, substituting "for 1802." Pp. 108. Printed title page. No frontispiece. In the third and completing part, the intention was stated of giving a General Index. Over 100 actors are included (entries ranging from a few lines to a full page of description) . [See also Roach's New and Complete History of the Stage (P. 144, May 16, 1796).]

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(THE) or Characteristic Mirror of Men and Things. Isaac Cruikshank, on several plates. [Book] 8vo. Bentley & Co. 3 vols. 1789-1791. Vol. 1. 480 pp. (no illus. by I C ) ; VoL 2. 436 pp. (no illus. signed by I C ) ; Vol. 3. 286 pp. (illus. signed. Drawn by Cruikshanks etched by Barlow," and several others without artist's name that may have been by Cruikshank) . This collection of descriptions of "public characters, pleasing adventures, humorous occurrences, fashionable news, &c. Sec." is composed of thirty-six numbers, the last dated August 1792. An index to the third volume was promised, but is not found. This miscellany seems to have been swallowed by the Bon T o n Magazine. •ATTIC

MISCELLANY

•BACHELOR'S HALL. ^Printed) Verses written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, etc. Aprill [sic] 30, 1791. Fores. I. Cruikshank. BM 8025. Four men on horseback with hounds, before a country house, and a huntsman with a horn across his shoulders, etched faintly in the background. [41]

[36]

AUCKWARD [SIC] SQUAD (THE) .

Feb. 19, 1794. Fores. I. Cruikshank. BM 8429. An officer trying to teach five recruits to present arms. AUNTEE PEG.

•BAD NEWS FROM T H E CONTINENT.

Jan. 1, 1801. Fores. Caric., 8, 118. Woodward inv RIC sc.] (BM 9693 supplies date from A. de R . 7, 80.) In my copy, plate mark is missing at the bottom and title, date, publisher and "Woodward inv," filled in in ink. Perhaps an " I C sc." had also been cut off. Fifteen caricature heads in three rows, depressed by news of Hohenlinden and the Baltic.

[37]

Mar. 29, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 7986: [I. Cruikshank] 83^x6-1/16 in. BM 7986a, is the same with slight changes, 65/ 8 x5-3/16 in. A "Miss Minifie" who was accused by Miss Gunning of having forged certain letters which Miss Gunning was alleged to have written.

[42]

[sic], or the singular adventures of Alphonsus and Adrea, e t c Dec. 21, 1807. Unsigned. Colored frontispiece [?IC]. [Bookl London. Sharp. 1808. 12mo. 38pp. Price 6d! Not in Douglas or Cohn. T h e crude style of engraving is not characteristic of Isaac Cruikshank's more careful work. •BANDITTI O F T H E APPENNINES

[38] AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF ZOA, THE BEAUTIFUL INDIAN.

Etched frontispiece by I.C. [Book] cr. 8vo. Dean 8c Munday. N.d. Cohn sale cat., p. 120, no. 816b. [39] •AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS (ROACH'S) , containing

OF

THE

GREEN

ROOM

BANG-UP,

the lives of all the Performers of the Theatres Royal. Drury Lane Covent Garden and the Haymarket. With Poetic Criticisms to each, 8ec. Frontispiece: [I.] Cruikshanks delin. Barlow

RANDOM,

OR TANDEM

See Some push along with four in hand (item 1125).

BARBER O F SEVILLE

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[43]

(THE)

. (Extracted from the

Monthly Mirror, n.s., no. 14). Songhead. Mar. 15, 1808. Laurie & Whittle. 484. From a series of "drolls." Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 11195. A barber kneels before a woman with a hairy chin, both in Spanish costume. [44] BARBER'S SHOP

(THE) .

Feb. 8, 1810. J. Bailey. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] [I.] Cruckshank sc. Reid, 102, quotes GC to the effect "that he etched the whole of this, excepting the head and hands of the man being shaved, after a design of his father's." The barber spills hot water on the foot of his customer. [45] • B A R B E R ' S WEDDING

(THE) .

July 1, 1791. Fores. Song sheet (25 verses, in 3 columns.) Cruikshank. 1796. BM 8027. A kneeling barber proposes to a fair one who keeps a fish stall. The verses, containing a number of weak jokes, describe how his persistence finally wins. [46] [•BARN

YARD SCENE

(A) ] .

N.d. No. pub. 7x83^ in. Unsigned. [PIC] A robust farmer milking, surrounded by cows, goats, asses. A thatched cottage at one side, with buxom women in the windows. Another carries a pail on her head. My print has been cut too close to see print lines in order to allow identification.

[49] BATTLE

BETWEEN

CRIBB AND M O L I N E U X

(THE) .

Jan. 1811. Johnston. pi] Cruikshank del. Reid 115. At this prizefight, Gully and Joe Ward were Cribb's seconds; for Molineux, Richmond and Jones. Cribb here has just hit his opponent a tremendous blow on the chest, to the dismay of Molineux's seconds and the delight of Cribb's backers. [50] BATTLE

OF THE

BARBERS AND SURGEONS

(THE) .

Aug. 14, 1797. Fores. Caric., 7, 25. IC. BM 9093: P.U.M.C. has a clipped copy of this print. Hand-to-hand encounters. A satire on the traditional hostility between barbers and barber-surgeons. [51] BEAR ( T H E ) , T H E M O N K E Y . [SIC] T H E TURKEY AND T H E BULL. Or the true cause of the Russian War.

Dec. 20, 1807. Tegg. [I.] Cruikshan [sic] sp. BM 10775: "The inscriptions are evidently by G. Cruikshank with probably some of the details." Not in Cohn. Ashton, p. 286. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2831. Broadley 1, 265; 2, p. 294, no. 45, "I&GC." Napoleon is trying to separate Russia from England, with promises of spoils from Turkey and the Indies. The bull adds, "When you play with a bull take care of its horns." [52] •BEAUTIES OF HYMEN.

PIC] [Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] six bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 768b. [53]

[47] BARON DONDER-DRONK-DICKDORF AND MISS QUOLTZ.

March 20, 1810. Laurie 8c Whittle. Heading to (printed) verses: Sung by Mr. Fawcett. A droll, 513. Cp. the frontispiece of the Encyclopedia of Brit, for 1911. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 11699. Reid (4499) lists another version: Cruikshank del, W. Grainger sc. (published by Fairburn). Douglas (1821) says this was probably published by Harrild. An operatic drama, The Free Knights, by Reynolds from the period of the 14th century, first played February 8, 1810. It has a "comic underplot." [48]

BEAUTIES O F T H E MODERN POETS O F GREAT BRIT A I N , CAREFULLY SELECTED, ETC.

15 vols, in 3 vols. [Book] London. J. Roach, post 8vo., 1793-94. The fifteen volumes contain twenty-eight engraved titles, vignettes and frontispieces, many by Isaac Cruikshank; engraved by Barlow. Cohn sale cat., p. 126, item 863. [54] BEAUTIES O F WARLL

(THE) .

Oct. 12, 1799. Fores. Woodward delin. [I.C. probably sc.] BM 9418: [I. Cruikshank £.] Seven groups listed by BM, with the comments of each on such evils as work idleness, "pressing," German soldiers' atrocities, cripples, battlefield ghouls.

•BARON MUNCHAUSEN.

[?IC] [Capbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] six bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 768c. 35

BEAUTIFUL WRITERS

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

[i.e.,

[I. and G. Cruikshank] P.U.M.C.: Cruik. E 2577. Cohn (920) says "by Isaac Cruikshank, but the picture on the wall is by G.C." Douglas (1249) says the same, adding that it is a true story. BM 10985: [Williams], General Whitlocke, sitting by a blazing fire, tells a man who has come to hang bells that he wants some bells h u n g and that he is General Bellweather. T h e artisan tells him that he is a Flint and his n a m e is Nelson so he may hang his bells and himself too. Scattered papers and a m a p showing "Monte Video" and Buenos Aires emphasize the General's cowardly record.

PROSE]

See Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. [55] • B E E F EATER

(A) .

October 24, 1792. Fores. IC (engraved twice in left lower corner). BM, 8194: [I. Cruikshank]. Portrait of a jolly fat lady, Mrs. Hobart (written in pencil). [56] B E E F M A R K E T EVACUATED OR T H E SANS CULOTTE S IN POSSESSION.

[59] BEN BLOCK S EPISTLE TO BUONAPARTE.

See Fleet Market Evacuated (item 378).

Sept. 5, 1803. M. Allen. [Woodward del., I. Cruikshank scr.] Not found in BM. Broadley's Table, 2, p. 294, no. 47: "In the Brothers Collection." J. B. Townsend collection. T h e letter appears below the title.

[57] ••BEGGAR'S CARNIVAL

(THE) .

1809. G. Smeeton, London. Frontispiece to "Dictionary of Slang," by George Andrewes. Cruikshank del. O n one of my copies, George Cruikshank has written in pencil, "By my Father Isaac Cruikshank," and above each of the wall pictures a "G.C." in pencil. BM 11475. Reid. Cohn 29. A thieves' kitchen in which men and women fight, drink and smoke. A similar subject but without title or date, a n d slightly smaller, is signed I. Cruikshank. Size 4]/2 by 6y8 in.

[60] BILLING AND COOING AT THE JELLY SHOP.

4th J u n e 1798. Laurie & Whipple. Size 6%-n %y4 in. 219, Unsigned. [?IC] BM 9327. A.S.W.R., p. 213. A man sitting at a counter, holding a jelly glass, gives a spoonful to his girl friend. Another man, also with a jelly glass, inspects them with a lorgnette, while a shop girl also observes them.

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[61]

BEHOLD H E PRAYETH.

or the modern colossus amusing himself. Mar. 8 1797. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8994 Pitt in riding clothes astride the Speaker's chair gashes Fox with his spur. Sheridan, Erskine and others of the Opposition are terrified. Of his two saddle bags, one is stuffed with "Asignats" [sic] and plans for supplementary troops; the other, much thinner, with "Remaining gold and silver coin." •BILLY

April 1, 1789. Fores. [PIC] BM 7520 mentions no artist. While not typical of Isaac's work, all the figures could be by him. At the Phila. Free Library (Hampton Carson collection). T h u r l o w in his Chancellor's robes is praying at a table (the head of his mace is just visible). Scornful comments are made by several imps. One grasping his shoulder says, "Well said Old Boyl You're a true disciple." T w o small imps, flying above his head, make similar comments. Eight robed bishops criticize his hypocrisypraying in public, invoking God, usually calling on him to curse mankind, producing a farce to serve his turn, and so on. T h u r l o w exclaims, " W h e n I forsake my King, may God forsake me." Shortly before, after intriguing with the Prince of Wales, he had declared in public debate, weeping, his adherence to the King.

A COCK-HORSE,

[62] or a Great Man kicked out of Place. May 18, 1798. J . Aitkin. Unsigned. jT Cruikshank] BM 9206. T h e King erases Fox's name from the list of Secretaries of State. (He actually was not one.) Fox, who was suspected of Franco-Irish intrigue, is being kicked out by Pitt and Dundas. BILLY AND HARRY IN THEIR GLORY,

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[58] AND T H E BELL-HANGER, Or

BILLY BLUBBER THE GREEN-BAG COMMITTEE M A N , ETC.

the Chesunt Blacksmith, a true story. May 16, 1808. Fores. Unsigned.

N.d. Fairburn. A broadside. G. and I.C. Cohn (927) gives no date. N o t

BELL-WEATHER

(THE)

36

found in B M list. In the Douglas copy: "This is by me, G. Ck., except the face and hands, which are by my father."

satire refers to Pitt's extracting more taxes as a means of obtaining peace for the country.

[63a]

Diversions of Purley [scored through and replaced by "Brighton."] Lesson 1st, Fashionable Follies PI. 2. Nov. 22, 1802. Fores. Unsigned. [Williams] [?I.C. sc.] BM 9894: [Williams]. T h e Prince of Wales sits on the box seat, while Mrs. Fitzherbert and a Miss Snow converse inside the coach.

[67]

BIRDS O F A F E A T H E R F L O C K T O G E T H E R .

BILLY TAYLOR.

Sept. 24th 1804. [? Isaac Cruikshank. J . S. Buckstone] A.S.YV.R.., p. 215. Also attributed to Isaac by Harvard College Library.

[64]

or John Bull over curious. July 16, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9237. A satire on the clearing of the House of strangers for the Irish debates. Pitt drags in a puppet show of the House of Commons, holding strings attached to the members inside. He tells John Bull, who complains that he can't get a peep, that he, Pitt, has no idea what is going on as he has been ill with the gout— which was actually the case.

[68]

BILLY'S FANTOCCINI,

BILLY'S

LEGACY!

[65]

Feb. 27, 1801. Hixon. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9712: "One of the very few prints favorable to Fox." Britannia in mourning weeps, while the late Ministry, including Pitt and Dundas, run off with booty acquired from excessive taxation. Fox holds out a placard to the victims of taxation advertising his speech in their favor. [66] John Bull enlighten'd. Title repeated on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Aug. 15, 1797. Fores. [IC] A photograph of the copy in the B M shows lines through the first two letters of "enlightened," which is followed by a minute "I. Cruikshank," also with a line drawn through it. I have in my collection a practically identical sketch (colored) for this cartoon bearing the title " T h e Shewman" and signed with a typical "I.C." (both title and signature in ink). It is obvious that the ascription to Ansell is incorrect. BM 9030: [PAnsell], Reproduced in Wright's Hist, of Caric., p. 489. Pitt is exhibiting a peep-show to John Bull, turning the crank with one hand while he picks John's pocket with the other. He urges his victim to lend his attention to the enchanting prospect of peace that he sees before him, but John says, "Mayhap it may Master Shewman [sic] but I canna zee ony thing what you mentions. I zees nothing but a woitle plain, perhaps the rest are behind the hill." T h e •BILLY'S RAREE-SHOW—or

37

or Bond St. loungers attending the examination of their fellow scarecrows. Mar. 20, 1800. Fores. •BIRDS O F A F E A T H E R F L O C K T O C E T H E R

Signed

Not in BM list. U

Six or eight loungers examine two others with tousled heads standing behind a grating and guarded by an attendant. Faintly sketched in the background is an elderly man sitting beneath scales (of Justice?), also three standing women and a seated man.

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• B I R T H O F A PRINCESS!!

(THE).

Jan. 29, 1796. Fores. Woodward delin. [I Cruikshank] in pencil. Contemporary? BM 8781. T e n single figures arranged in two rows, all with appropriate remarks engraved above their heads. This, the first of a series of five by Woodward, bound together, is the only one with date and publisher's name preserved. T h e engraver's name is in pencil for all five, but on two " I C " is cut on the plate.

[70]

BLACK E Y E D SUE, AND S W E E T P O L L O F P L Y M O U T H ,

taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay. 12th May 1794. Laurie & Whittle. Size 61/2x81/2 in. 79. [?IC] BM 8573. A.S.W.R., p. 212. Two prostitutes sit weeping, as two shackled convicts stand by them. A jailor points to a ship in the background. On a hill a body dangles from a gibbet.

[71]

or a Scotch experiment. April 1, 1805. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10380. Melville (in plaid dress with a thistle held by a brooch with St. Andrews cross) bleeds Neptune into a bowl held by Trotter (army contractor). T h e BM editor points out that no money was lost to the country, since Trotter had been uniformly successful in his speculation with naval balances. BLEEDING

NEPTUNE,

BLESS THEE TRANSLATED.

BOTTOM,

[72]

BLESS

THEE—THOU

[I] Cruikshank del. BM 11196. Reid 5084. Cohn 935. Douglas 1811. A tall dragoon, holding his charger, looks down at an ugly, coy old woman.

ART

Shakespere. Jan. 1, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8519. A six-line acrostic spells "Wilton," the name of the sculptor. Bottom, with spectacles on his ass's head, studies a paper while holding a piece of charcoal. BLESSED

EFFECTS

OF

[73]

PREFERINC

[SIC]

FOREIGN

SERVANTS TO OUR OWN COUNTRY MEN.

June 4, 1810. Fores. I. Ck. BM 11561. The Duke of Cumberland, as he gets out of bed, is being attacked by his valet, a Corsican, who was later found cutting his throat in his own room.

JESTER,

Publish'd by J . Corry, Augt. 1, 1803. Stipple. [I] Cruikshank sculp. (Frontispiece to Corry's Life of Bonaparte," q. v.). A full-length figure of Napoleon in uniform, not a portrait or a caricature. He points to cavalry fighting (lightly sketched) in the background. A cannon and flag also in the back.

Feb. 1, 1801. Fores. Unsigned. BM 9703: [I. Cruikshank] There is also a later Fores [Cruikshank] plate with this title dated March 18, 1809. See next item. The Duke of York's sword pierces Pitt's (caricatured) coat, apropos an unfortunate military expedition to Holland. The King calls out not to hurt him, while Fox looks on, expressing regret that it did not hit his waistcoat.

[80]

BONAPARTE IN CONFERENCE]

i

une 10, 1803. J . Corry. Cruikshank. BM 10010. A (folded) colored engraving from a book (?). Size, 5x5^4 inNapoleon is pointing to a map of Great Britain. George III, seated, points to some documents. On the wall is a map of Holland; a torn map of Switzerland indicates that it had been overrun by the French. This print probably refers to the negotiations that failed between the French and[81] England.

[75]

NEWS, or the conspirators detected, vide Mr. Whitbread's speech. March 18, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. and G. Cruikshank] BM 11261. Reid 70. Cohn 933: "Chiefly I. Ck. but some little work by G. Ck." The Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke sit at a table with Baroness Nolleken and other women. Whitbread shines a beam of light on them, saying, "When men do deal in Deeds of darkness —'tis Women are their Counsel." The light so frightens an attendant that the wine he carries is upset. BLOODY

BONAPARTE SNATCHING AT T H E BRITISH CROWN.

Aug. 12, 1803. Laurie and Whittle. 313. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10061. Broadley. Napoleon, beset by three demons, while attempting to stride across the Channel, falls on his back between two cliffs. He drops his sabre (which has emblems of victory on its blade). Britannia, standing on the English side with her shield leaning against her, holds up the British crown and points derisively at Napoleon with a sceptre. Inscribed across the design: "A Rash Attempt and Wofull Downfall." Four lines of verse below the title, beginning; "But as he climb'd to grasp the Crown . . ."

[76] or Kate in a rage. Octr., 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8124. The Duke of Brunswick and the King of Poland separated by Catherine II. Bobadil was a blustering fictional character of the day. BOBADIL DISGRACED,

BOLD DRAGOON (THF.) FLINN. Mar. 25, 1808.

ROYAL

[79]

BLOODY NEWS, BLOODY NEWSLI

NEWS,

TON

BONAPARTE, FIRST CONSUL OF T H E FRENCH REPUBLIC.

[74]

BLOODY

[78]

or Prince's Cabinet of Wit, etc. By the greatest wits of the present Century. Frontispiece and vignette by IC, engraved by Barlow. [Book] 8vo. Pp. 90. London: J . Roach. 1792. Chubbock, p. 1: "One of the rarest portraits of Mrs. Jordan known." A.S.W.R., p. 207, gives as title "Royal Jester," etc. BON

[77]

[82]

AND THE BEAUTEOUS MRS.

Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 485. Heading to printed verses. Sung by Mr. Johnstone.

BOND STREET BUCKS & KEEN COUNTRYMEN.

20th Augt. 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 364. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10356. 38

T w o dandies, arm in arm, carrying small canes, one wearing Hessians, the other spatterdashes, are looking at a country man. T o the one who wishes to be in the country the other says, " I n the country, my friend, there is naught to be seen but an ass on a Common or a goose on a Green." T h e countryman, overhearing, retorts, " T h e r e would be in the country them things to be seen, were you on a Common, your friend on a Green."

[83] BONE AND SKIN—

Nov. 19, 1804. Reeve. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10282. T w o thin millers, Pitt and Melville, are confronted by John Bull, who is indignant at the rising price of corn.

[84]

" B O N E Y AT BRUSSELS [SIC].

Aug. 14, 1803. Fores. / Cks. BM 10066. Broadley 1, 185; 2, p. 296, no. 86. Ashton, p. 184. Napoleon (not a portrait) enthroned, a huge fork in each hand. On one is impaled " T o the Gt. and Consular Deity." He is chewing a slip of paper, "Address to the deified Consul." Before him several figures bow, each holding above his head a platter bearing slips with similar adulatory sentiments. One of the many cartoons directed against the threat of invasion when the scare was at its height (August and September).

[85] •BONEY

ATTACKING

THE

ENGLISH

HIVES,

or

the

Corsican caught at last in the island. [Oct. 1803. Fores] (according to Broadley, and in ink on my print in an early hand). Isaac Cruikshank sc. (in pencil, by a former owner). BM 10079. AM (?) Invt. No sc. or indication of any other artist given. A doubtful Cruikshank. T h e bee sign of an owner embossed off the print. King George sits behind a row of hives, marked with names of counties and with "Welch," "Scotch" and 'Royal." Bonaparte, on one knee, begs him to call off the bees and says he will never disturb them again. His features are not characteristic of Isaac's work. T h e King is a typical IC. Scores of dead French lie on the shore. T h e Channel is full of countless salt-water beehives.

[IC and GC] BM 10439: "GC probably assisted by IC." It seems more likely that Isaac Cruikshank etched this plate and was assisted by his thirteen-year-old son. Ashton, p. 261. T h e figure of Napoleon is typically Isaac's work. Reid 16. Broadley 2, no. 89: "G.C." T h e Austrian General Mack kneels before Bonaparte (he surrendered at U l m ) , who tells Mack that he wants as his heart's desire "Not your Forts, your Cities, nor your Terretories [sic]! Sir, I only want Ships, Colonies and Commerce." Across the Channel, Nelson offers to Britannia many captured ships, and more on the way. This print was published November 6, thirteen days after the battle of Trafalgai (Ashton). [87] or more ships, colonies, 8c commerce. Jan. 1, 1808. Fores. Cruikshank sculp. BM 10960: [I. and ? G.C.]. Reid 36. Broadley 1, 288; 2, list no. 103. Ashton, p. 286. Napoleon (not a portrait, but in uniform) kicking Talleyrand (note the club foot) after the Regent of Portugal had escaped to Brazil. Holding him by the scruff of the neck, he cries to "stop them, why did you not hurry more, all my hopes are blasted, and I'll glut it on you, monster." A sentry exclaims that they have spiked all the guns. T h e large British fleet is in the Tagus; the Admiral (Sir Sidney Smith) calls through a speaking trumpet to Talleyrand, "Bon jour, Monsieur, if you would like a trip to the Brazils, I'll conduct you there with a great deal of Pleasure; perhaps you would like a taste of Madeira by the way." Two of his oarsmen call similar sentiments. • B O N E Y STARK MAD,

[88]

from an unknown source. Five etchings of unrelated subjects, but all marked ISD skd [i.e., sketched] and ICk etd [i.e., etched]. Paged 50, 117, 127, 140, and "to Face Page 185." All without titles. [•BOOK

[•BOOK

(Q-v.)]

ILLUSTRATIONS]

[89]

ILLUSTRATIONS F R O M SAV1LLON S FLF.GIES

Four engravings (uncolored) all marked: Cruikshanks del. Author Invenit. B. Reading Sculp. Size: 4y 2 x3\4 in. Plate 2. "With thee I scale the antique ruin'd tow'r," etc. Plate 3. "Yet dauntless still, upon the wasteful shore." Plate 4. "On this cold stone I'll fix my drear abode!" Plate 6. "Alas Maria!"

[86] • B O N E Y BEATING MACK—AND NELSON GIVING H I M

A WHACK!! or the British tars giving Boney his hearts desire, ships colonies and commerce. Nov. 19, 1805. Fores. Unsigned.

39

no. 127: "I.C." Reproduced by Rosmer (Writing on the Wall, 1943). An explosion from Britannia's spear carries away Napoleon, who, as the bottle imp, appears as an impostor. The bottle imp was a widely known hoax of this period.

["And there the infant sleeps" is not by IC] On the funeral urn of Plate 4 is inscribed, "Here rest lamented the remains of Julia wife of Count Louis de Montauban." ( T H E | ; or, Library of the Useful Arts. A few illustrations by IC. [Book] S vols. 24mo. N.d. London: Tabart & Co. Chubbock list, p. 5, no. 30. BOOK O F TRADES

• BOREAS EFFECTING COULD N O T ! ! !

[91]

WHAT HEALTH

[96]

•BRITANNIA, THE POLITICAL OLD WOMAN OF BOTLEY.

(A) .

& MODESTY

[93]

Octr 8, 1806Laurie & Whittle. Heading to engraved verses: Sung with Unbounded Applause by Mr. Miller, at the Royal Circus. A droll. 443. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10687. A fine young sailor tells how he ran away to sea, sailed with Nelson, was taken prisoner and escaped, ending with the patriotic sentiment that he will continue to work for England and never run away. BOUND PRENTICE TO A WATERMAN.

[97]

May 16, 1810. Fores. I. Ck. BM 11558. Reid 5089. Britannia praising the imprisoned Burdett. [97a] BRITISH COOKERY or out of the frying pan into the fire. May 1st, 1801. M. Jones. Unsigned. [IC] No artist's name on copy seen by me at Sessler's, June 1960. The cartoon is well executed (see reference in "The Scourge," May 1811).

Over an oven ("Grand Kitchen of Europe") a vigorous person in a red uniform is frying military figures in a pan marked "Portugal" (Wellington). Above the pan is a cloud inscribed "French Gasconnades." His right hand holds a "British Basting Ladle" with which he bastes a trussed goose, which has in its neck a human face (portrait not identified). An older officer in red, kneeling, fans the flame with a bellows marked "British Bravery." A French (?) officer is shown stuffed into a "Pickle Jar." A crowned figure (Napoleon?), in green uniform ,is seen half exposed in a stew pan. On the mat is written in pencil, "Very rare."

[98]

•BRITISH LIBERTY EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CASE O F M A J O R SCOT, who altho' at the point of death,

was dragged from his bed, by the inhumanity of the Bailiffs, and expired in their arms. Oct. 20, 1786. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 7015: [? Kingsbury]. This is a poorly executed plate, which certainly is not typical of Isaac Cruikshank's style. Scot, an ex-governor of St. Helena, was seized by bailiffs for a debt, and died while dressing.

[94]

BRESLAW'S LAST LEGACY.

Frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank. [Chapbook] Tegg. Cr. 8vo. N.d. Cohn sale cat., no. 766b.

BRITANNIA CONJURER.

BLOWING

[95]

UP

THE

CORSICAN

BOTTLE

17 Aug. 1803. R. Ackermann. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10069. Broadley 2, list

THE

BRITANNIA'S VISIT TO THE TOWER.

[92]

Belcher (A). Jan. 20, 1802. Fores. Unsigned. [IC] in pencil in margin. Not in BM list. The drawing suggests Isaac Cruikshank's work, perhaps with the engraving modified by Robert or George. Stamped S.W.F. (from Fores' Collection) . A vulgar fat woman, with fur muff and neckpiece, walks toward a sportily dressed young man.

AND

[ca. Aug. 1809] Fores. Unsigned. [I. and/or G.C.] BM 11352. Reid 79. Britannia reprimands Cobbett for his freedom of speech, as she reads from a long scroll entitled "The oppressor of Botley's defence." An old woman behind him observes how like a gentleman he seems.

Jan. 5, 1800. S.W.F. (Fores) Unsigned. [Cawse] [?I.C. sc.] BM 9608: [Cawse], The style suggests that IC at least etched this print. Boreas, from a cloud, blows a blast at three scantily dressed women; a fourth has dress turned up showing a masculine pair of breeches. The winter of 1799-1800 was notoriously cold. An old rake follows a courtesan out of the room. •BOUNCER

EGOTIST,

BRITISH LYRE

year 1793.

40

(THE)

[99]

or Muses repository for the

ICk. BM 10018: [Williams], b u t has I Ck signature engraved on my copy. A bear, in royal costume, reconciles E n g l a n d (a citizen with a bull's head) a n d N a p o l e o n (a monkey in military u n i f o r m ) .

Engraved frontispiece by I. Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. J. Desmond. N.d. [1794] C o h n sale cat., no. 757a.

[100] BRITISH

MENAGERIE

(THE) .

J u l y 5, 1796. Fores. I.C. BM 8821. O n e of the many satires on the heavy b u r d e n b o r n e by the English due to subsidies to greedy b u t inert allies. T h e sovereigns of Europe are represented as animals, each being given a n u m ber referring to a note of explanation below the design. A cock represents France; an eagle, Prussia; a frog, H o l l a n d ; a bear, Russia; a pig, Sweden; " t h e whore of Babylon," the Pope. Pitt is shovelling guineas into No. 1, a h u g e leopard (Austria). J o h n a n d Mrs. Bull watch, dismayed.

[101] •BRITISH

NEPTL'NE

RIDING

TRIUMPHANT

(THE) ,

or the Carmagnols dancing to the t u n e of R u l e Britannia. J u n e 16, 1794. Fores. Large (12I/2X 181/8 i n . ) . S.W.F. Inv. I. Cruikshank Del. BM 8469. My copy has "S.W.F. Invt." cut in the left lower corner of the plate a n d the S.W.F. owner's s t a m p to the right. Admiral Howe, standing in a chariot drawn by dolphins, pulls away several French menof-war, the British Hag above the French. In the background several French ships are sinking or retreating toward a fort marked "Brest." T h i s plate makes amends for Isaac Cruikshank's derogatory cartoon of December 1793, " H o w a great admiral," etc.

[102] BRITISH

TAR'S

LAUGHING

STOCK

(THE) ,

or

the

Royal Quixote. Song head (18 verses in three c o l u m n s ) . July 14, 1790. Maynard. I.C. BM 7660. Charles IV of Spain starts u p f r o m a dream, the three parts of which are shown in the clouds: 1, Defense of Gibraltar; 2, a Spaniard r o u t i n g the British at Nootka Sound; 3, Louis XVI in prison, his crown on the g r o u n d beside him.

[105] BRUIN'S MISTAKE.

J a n . 20, 1803. Williamson. Caric., 10, 255. 1C. BM 10185. A m a n with a bear's head asks Lady Barge Breech, heavily wrapped in furs, for the news from Russia. She answers, " N o n e of your impudence fellow!"

[106] "You scoundrel how durst you tell me that the river was fordable here?" " W h y Measter my geese go over every day." July 1, 1801. Fores. C l i p p e d so that only the bottom plate mark shows. [1.] Cruikshank. Not in BM list. "By my F a t h e r Isaac Cruikshank. G. C k " inscribed in my copy, f r o m the J . Barton T o w n s e n d collection. In special cover, with J B T a n d EBK bookplates. T h e gooseherd laughs at the d r i p p i n g wet buck. •BUCK

(THE)

AND T H E GOOSE.

[107] •BUCK O F 1 7 8 1

(A) .

Sept. 1, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank ?del. a n d / o r ?sc.] BM 8038 names n o artist, a n d dismisses this item in two lines as a reissue of BM 5935 ("Boots a n d S p u r s " ) , which was published Oct. 31, 1781 by J. Williams. It also is unsigned a n d gives n o clue as to the artist. A young m a n in exaggerated r i d i n g dress a n d hair not powdered, with a crop in his right h a n d . An impossible ass (?) looks b e h i n d him at a well-sketched tree. In the f o r e g r o u n d a less successful small tree. A suggestion t h a t this may be Isaac Cruikshank himself as a young m a n is discussed in the text on Isaac's life.

[108] BUCKING WASHING ON TWEEDSIDE

[103]

(A) .

[? 1810] [Tegg] Caric., 7, 35. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11653. A m a n reclining behind a tree watches two girls t r a m p l i n g the wash.

O F BAYONNE peeping over the Pyrenean m o u n t a i n s at the Lilliputian Spanish Army. Aug. 3, 1808. Tegg. 51. Unsigned. [PWoodward del.; G. a n d / o r I. Cruikshank f.] BM 11008. Broadley 1, 273, 275 (reproduction) . A satire on the capitulation of Baylen. BROBDINGNAGS

[109] BUCKS PROGRESS.

1796. Unsigned. IC. A series of four engravings, a t t r i b u t e d to Isaac Cruikshank. Bucks Progress. 10 o'Clock. D r i n k i n g B u r t o n

[104] • B R U I N BECOME MEDIATOR.

J u n e 4, 1803. Williamson.

41

Ale. 3/7/96. Fairburn. Unsigned. Six men sitting around a table drinking Burton ale. Bucks Progress. 12 o'Clock. T h e Bagnio Scene. T h e six making up to six women. Punch on the table. 3/7/96. Fairburn. Unsigned. Bucks Progress. 3 o'Clock. T h e Uproar. All fighting the bailiffs who force an entry. 3/7/96. Fairburn. Unsigned. Bucks Progress. 4 o'Clock. T h e Watch House. T h e carousers brought before the head of the Watchmen (who sits before an open fire). Bound in one volume. Houghton Library (Harvard). Also A.S.W.R., p. 207.

[110]

or J o h n Bull frightned [sic] out of his Money [scored through and replaced by] Wits. Nov. 20, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 8837. Broadley 1, 83 (reproduced) . A young John Bull pours all his money into a hopper which Pitt collects. All fear that they (the French) are coming. Fox calls to the French ships to hurry or "there will be no money left for us." •BUDGET

(THE),

riii] or John Bull, etc. BM 8837a. A French copy of B M 8837, reversed, with wording in French and without inscriptions. See also BM 8837b and 8916, all small. BUDGET

(THE),

[112]

(A). [?1802] Size 24x18 c m . I. Cruikshank. Pencil and gray wash drawing. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I E 2737. T h e sketch is inscribed, "Drawn by my Father Isaac Cruikshank. G. Ck." T h e youngish bull is seen in profile, better drawn and anatomically more correct than are most of the animals done by caricaturists. BULL

[113]

(A) . Written by Mr. C. Dibdin . . . and sung by Mr. Grimaldi in Harlequin High Flyer or Off She Goes at the Aquatic Theatre Sadlers Wells. A droll, 496. Sept. 5, 1808. Laurie 8c Whittle. Cruikshank Del. BM 11206: [G. and/or I. Cruikshank] Cohn 962. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2441. A bull tosses the owner of a china shop through his own window. BULL IN A CHINA SHOP

[113a]

(THE) ; or the convenience of fashion. Beneath the title is engraved: Suky/ like Syrinx changes shape,/ Her vain pursuer to escape;/ Ye Snapps; of Pans hard fate beware/ W h o thought his arms embraced the fair/ But found an empty Bum-case there. May 6, 1786. Fores.

BUM-BAILIFF OUTWITTED

[PIC] BM 7102 gives no mention of artist. Wright's Caric. Hist, of the Georges (p. 534) also describes it without naming an artist. Seen in Phila. Free Library (Hampton Carson collection) . A bailiff, holding out a warrant, approaches a lady in a rigid dress with a huge bustle. She, in her chemise, slips out of the dress and escapes between his legs, thus serving as a hit at an absurd fashion and incidentally suggesting a means of smuggling the much-sought-after French brandy. "BUONAPARTE

AT

[114]

ROME

CIVING

AUDIENCE

IN

Mar. 12, 1797. Fores. I.Ck. BM 8997: "Though caricatured, is evidently based on a portrait." T o me it bears little resemblance either to Bonaparte or IC's later portraits of him. Broadley, 1, opp. p. 94 (reproduced). This is generally accepted as Bonaparte's first appearance in English caricatures. T h e Pope, on his knees, offers the keys of the city to Bonaparte, who kicks off his tiara, saying, " I say, remember to take off your hat when you wait on a gemman!!! There kiss that you foutre." STATE.

[115]

terrible T u r k prepareing a mummy, for a present to the great nation. Oct. 20, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [PIC del and/or sc.] BM 9255: [PAnsell], Broadley I, 121-2 (reproduced facing p. 119). T h e style in this engraving strongly resembles that of IC. T h e T u r k with drawn scimitar chokes Bonaparte, while another Turk is about to throw a rope around Fox and three of his colleagues. In the background others are being strangled, one of whom calls out, "Ah my General was tell me he make my fortune." A satire inspired by Nelson's victory. •BIONAPARTK

IN ECYI'T—A

[116]

BUONAPARTE'S ANSWER TO BEN BLOCK.

Sept. 6, 1803. Allen. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sc. Broadley 2, 301, no. 162. Not listed in BM. Is in the Field collection of the Houghton Library (Harvard) . Buonaparte's answer to Ben is printed in a half page (roman type). T h e portrayal of Napoleon, in profile, dressed in uniform, is typical except for the eye being larger than usual. [117]

AT CALAIS. Sept. 21, 1803. Ackermann. A broadside, printed in two

BUONAPARTE'S

42

SOLILOQUY

columns by D. N. Shury (7 Berwick St.). Thirty-three lines, a parody on Hamlet. Quoted in full by Ashton (p. 207). Written and designed by G. M. IVoodruard. Cruikshank sc. BM^10104. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2653. Broadley 2, p. 301, no. 166. In the Woodin copy is inscribed by GC: "By my father. I. (sd.) G. Ck." Napoleon leaning against a signpost, near the English Channel, which says "Road to England," soliloquizes, " T o go or not to go that is the question." Across the Channel is a high cliff with a fort flying the British flag, and a fleet at its base.

[121] BUY A BROOM?!! A lottery puff. Ca. 3x4 in. Unsigned. (PIC) A.S.W.R., p. 182: in a miscellaneous collection of prints ascribed to George Cruikshank but containing many by Isaac. Reid, 1306: "Whole length of Lord Brougham as a bohemian broom seller, in profile, wearing the little appropriate cap over his wig. He has two brooms under his arm and holds up a third for sale." Seen in Vol. 8 of Captain Douglas' set in H.E.W. room at Harvard.

[118]

June 1791. Fores. [IC del.] Edmonton fecit BM 7885: [I. Cruikshank], A satire on Government contractors, including one Rellish.

BURLESQUE

ON

MR.

& MRS.

CLARK

(A) —Or

the

flitch of bacon. April 1, 1806. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll, 419. Heading to engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent Garden, in the Popular Farce of We Fly By Night. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10673 names no artist. A married couple in a farmhouse bed are quarreling as to whether the Dunmow flitch of bacon, for which they are going to apply, should be fried or boiled. A crying baby in a cradle has a bacon streak on his forehead.

[122] c

M—RS

RELLISH AT GREASY

HALL.

[123] CABIN BOY

( T H E ) . SONGHEAD.

Laurie & Whittle. June 8, 1807. Unsigned. 468. [G. or I. Cruikshank del ] BM 10948. An effeminate-looking boy, wearing striped shirt and dark trousers, sings two lugubrious verses, with his back to the breakers. A small boat is sinking nearby.

[119] or the fate of the loves of Frederick and Mary Ann. [Apr. 1809] Walker. Unsigned. [?IR and/or IC] BM 11321: [I.R. Cruikshank] This resembles Isaac's much more than Robert's work. T h e Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke are burning letters. Perceval demands from Phillips that every sheet be burned. Gillet, the printer, waits behind Phillips for his pay.

[124]

BURNING B Y CONTRACT

['CABINET

COUNCIL

( T H E ) ].

Title taken from text. Oct. 22, 1796. Allen & West. Etc. Exc. PI. 27, p. 65. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sculp. BM 8956. A Council of seven members, seated in a row, are quarreling about politics. [124a] CALEB CURIOUS.

J u n e 11, 1792. Fores. [/. Cruikshank] BM 8169. An elderly man examining pictures of nudes in a picture gallery. A satire on Caleb Whitefoord, a well-known wine merchant, wit and connoisseur.

[120] •BURNING T H E MEMOIRS.

April 24, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. and G.C.] BM 11320: [I. and G. Cruikshank], Cohn (968) : "Chiefly by I. Ck. a little by G.C." Reid 75. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2477. Douglas (771) gives the date of publication as April 12. T h e Duke of Portland, Gillet, Phillips and others are hurling Mrs. Clarke's Memoirs into the fire. Beside it, the Prince of Wales says, "Echod, this is a fine stroke, my [observations on the Family 8c] (five words inserted in ink in writing like Isaac Cruikshank's) letters all burned, J o h n Bull will be left in the dark."

[125] Verses written by Mr. C. Dibdin. Nov. 1, 1808. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 499. [? I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11207. A dun stands before a dignified London house, the master watching from upstairs. CALL AGAIN TOMORROW.

[126] CALL

(THE)

FOR T H E PASSENGERS TO THE STAGE-

Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing.

COACH AFTER T H E M E A L .

BURNS' POEMS

See Poems, letters 8cc &c, ascribed to Robert Burns (item 902). 43

From the Woodin sale cat., item (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942.). 7i4xl9 in. A scramble to finish the meal.

247.7

[127] •CANAL MEETING

(A) .

March 1, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 68, p. 161. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9131. Six elderly gentlemen around a table heatedly discuss plans for an intended canal. CAPT. MORRIS' DRINKING

SONG.

See Sound Philosophy.

[128] . Title written on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. (See following item.) Isaac Cruikshank. "An original water-color drawing." From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.6 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942.) 7 ^ x 1 0 in. CARD

[132]

or Hudibrastic Mirror ( T h e ) , by G. M. Woodward, Esqr. Title page, vol. 1. (This title is also listed for the book itself.) Tegg. 1807. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculpt. BM 10889. A conventional curtain across the design is centred by a laughing mask of the John Bull type. O n each side are heads, including some amused, some scowling or yawning, and various other figures. CARICATURE

MAGAZINE,

[133]

(A)

PARTY

[129] CARD PARTY

peared on single plates. He thanks the public for their kind reception.

(A) .

[Laurie & Whittle. Aug. 16, 1794. No. 122] I. Cruikshank del. (see preceding item.) BM 8584. Four ugly old people are seated at cards. Other guests stand behind the table talking.

CARLO KAN.

[?April] 1784. No publisher given. IC. BM 6497. A cartoon against Charles Fox, showing him "bursen" [sic] from straining to cajole the Westminster electors. [134] [CAROUSE OUTDOORS

[130] CARICATURE

MAGAZINE,

or Hudibrastic Mirror,

(The). By G. M. Woodward. G. M. Woodward del. Many sc. by IC and [GC]. [Book] Obi. folio. 5 vols. Thomas Tegg. (1807?) 1807-1821. T h e plates, which were intended to be issued ultimately in five volumes, were all first issued separately. Difficulties of collation have been increased by the reissue of the volumes, after Woodward's death in 1809, with a different number of plates and other variations. T h u s Cohn, 110, recognized 385 plates (approximately) , giving a list of those which he attributed to George. T h e Widener copy has 388 plates but "some appear to be reissues"; the Grolier Club, 499 plates. All five volumes have engraved title pages, and the first two have engraved tailpieces.

[134a] CASE O F ABDUCTION

See Triumphal entry of the Union into London (item 1235). [135] CASTLE SPECTRE

(THE) .

;?ic] Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 767h.) Cp. Holland item of 1798, immediately following. [136] CASTLE SPECTRE ( T H E ) , AND HER ERNEST [ s i c ] ADMIRER. Wm. Holland. March 14, 1798. Aqua-

tint. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 9289. Paston, PI. 77, gives date as 1793, and the spectre as Mrs. Siddons. A soldier, Prince Ernest (note the p u n in the title), later Duke of Cumberland, kneels before the beautifully draped spectre (Mrs. Siddons?). BM says Mrs. Powell took the name part when this was first played at Drury Lane on Dec. 14, 1797.

[131] ( T H E ) . Conclusion of the first volume of 1st Septr. 1807. Tegg. Woodward Inv. and Delont. [sic for delint.] [?Cruikshank sculp.] BM 10916 [Williams]. T h e central figure, smiling and with prominent eyeballs, is supported on each side by miniatures of some of the characters that had ap*'CARICATURE

(A) ]

N.d. [IC] Photostat negative. (See Country Dance, item 208, for details.) A dozen or more persons of both sexes drinking, fiddling, etc.

MAGAZINE

[137] CATALANIAN REHEARSAL.

PIC

NIC

(A)

SOCIETY

Mar. 12, 1807. Tegg. N 14.

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AT

PRIVATE

Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp. BM 10906. A musical society, n a m e d after a f a m o u s sop r a n o , is shown rehearsing at a n o u t d o o r picnic.

[138] CATASTROPHE

"A machine dat make d e Ventre of de ladies, for all de W o r l d like de M a m a . " O n the wall h a n g pads of graded thicknesses, one for each of the nine months.

(THE) .

[ca. May 1805.] R . R a p i n e . Unsigned. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 10407. Melville, having resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty, is seen hanging by the neck. T h e story of A h i t h o p h e l , here alluded to in a subtitle, is f o u n d in II Samuel: a counsellor of King David w h o j o i n e d in Absalom's revolt a n d h a n g e d himself after its failure.

[142] •CHALLENGE

Nov. 26, 1796. Fores. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. N o t f o u n d in BM. Is in my Sessler's 1917 list, no. 30. "SWF," owner's stamp, in corner. A smart-looking but small officer h a n d i n g a challenge to a big, oafish one; b o t h in red uniforms.

[1S9] CATCH'D

[143]

NAPPING.

L a u r i e & Whittle, Dec. 1, 1794. 130. Unsigned. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k del.] BM 8588. A.S.W.R., p. 212. T w o alluring country girls, asleep on a bank, are cautiously a p p r o a c h e d by two young sportsmen, each with a h a n d raised in a silencing gesture.

C H A M P I O N OF LIBERTY

[144]

RECEIVING

THE

PAPAL

May 26, 1805. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] Broadley (1, 230) is "inclined to att r i b u t e this to" Isaac. Fox, Sheridan, Lord Derby and Lord Moira kneel before the Pope, who is in full pontificals. T h e Pope, stretching out his h a n d over Fox, says, "Bless you all my children for the great good you intended. My master here will be m u c h disappointed." Napoleon in imperial robes, sword in one h a n d , the other on the Pope's shoulder, says, " T h a n k them for pleading your cause a n d particularly for their assertion that the R o m a n Catholic religion is totally altered. Make the people believe that a n d we will soon give them the second part of Fox's 'Book of Martyrs.' "

[140] CELEBRATED MOCK ITALIAN SONG

(THE) .

Augt. 24 1808. Laurie & Whittle. Song H e a d of italianized English verse. [?!.] Cruikshank, Del. BM 11203. Douglas 1813. C o h n 981. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2427. W h i l e an Italian greyhound howls, a grinn i n g seated m a n sings. Four of the sixty-two lines follow: " W i t h penny-o he will buy a n y , / If it have Dandelions,/ Endivini, celerini,/ N a p k i n n i n i , swingidini" (etc.).

Eight b o u n d in one cover. Some ill. by Isaac Cruikshank. " J u l i a " ; "Life of Wolfe"; " M o t h e r Bridget"; "Life of Paul Jones"; "Life of Lanson"; " T h e Cross"; "Rosse Castle"; " T h e Castle Spectre." Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 767; publisher, dates or places of pub., n u m b e r of pages, etc., not given. A chapbook is defined by the Shorter O x f o r d Dictionary as a small p a m p h l e t of p o p u l a r tales, ballads, tracts, etc. It got its n a m e as one sold by a chapman, an itinerant dealer, hawker or peddler—a term in use as early as 1592. [CHAPBOOKS]

[145] Five b o u n d in one cover. Mostly ill. by I. Cruikshank. " M i d n i g h t H o r r o r s ' ; " T h e F a i r Strollers of T i v e r t o n " ; " H e l e n Beresford"; " T h e Mysterious Stranger"; "Treachery Discovered or the Footman's Widow." C o h n sale cat., item 765, p. 113; publishers, dates or places of publication, n u m b e r of pages, etc., not given. [CHAPBOOKS]

[146] Several b o u n d in one cover. All with frontispieces by Isaac Cruikshank. See separate items. " H e n r y Sinclair"; " L u b i n a n d Rosetta"; " T h e Twin Sisters"; " H e l e n Beresford" (also in another vol.) ; " H e n r y a n d Eliza"; " T h e History of Highwaymen." C o h n sale cat., p. 113, item 769; publishers, dates or places of pub., n u m b e r of pages, etc., not given. [CHAPBOOKS]

[141] or belly piece shop. April 16, 1793. Fores. Caries., 8, 28. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8387.

CF.STINI

(THE) .

Feb. 1810. J. Johnston. Unsigned. [I. (? and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11531: " A rare instance of a print favorable to Sheridan." Sheridan defends the liberty of the Press, defying darts hurled by the Spirit of C o r r u p t i o n , f r o m the tottering Parliament b u i l d i n g .

[139a] C A T H O L I C PETITIONERS BENEDICTION.

(A) .

WAREHOUSE

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[147] Six bound in one cover. Some ill. by Isaac Cruikshank. "Ivy Castle" (two editions); "Beauties of Hymen"; "Baron Munchausen"; "Forest of Bondy"; "Martin's Valentine Writer." Cohn Sale cat., item 768, p. 113, publishers, dates or places of pub., number of pages, etc., not given. [CHAPBOOKS]

t 1 4 ®}

•

••CHARACTERS FROM H O L C R O F T S ROAD TO RUIN.

Sept. 24, 1796. Allan & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 22, p. 54. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sculp. BM 8951. A 'goldfinch," a young buck in scarlet coat and top hat, takes his mistress for a drive. [149] •CHARACTERS IN A VILLAGE ALEHOUSE.

April 1, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 87. (No page given.) Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sp. BM 9149. An itinerant peddler reads a newspaper to an illiterate countryman seated at a table; both are drinking ale.

[153] or an excellent shift for bad weather!!! Jan. 1805 (apparently altered from 1801.) Williamson. Caries., 8, 84. Unsigned. j?I. Cruikshank] B M 9827. T w o ladies pull their only outer garment over their bonnets. A younger woman, with her dog and parasol, displays legs and garters. CHEMISE

RAIN,

( T H E ) , or Guardian of Female Innocence, exposing the Arts of Boarding Schools, Hired Fortune Tellers, Corrupt Milliners [etc.]. [/. Cruikshank] Stipple frontispiece, " T h e Cherub." [Book] 8vo. W. Locke, Holborn, 1792. Cohn sale cat., item 763, p. 113. Chubbock, p. 1, no. 5: " T h e text is free but not verbally gross." CHERUB

[155] •CHILD AND CHAMPION OF JACOBINSM [SIC]

(THE)

New Christened, vide Pitt's Speech. Oct. 26, 1801. Fores. Unsigned. [PCruikshank del. and/or f.]. BM 9733: [Williams]. Broadley 1, opp. p. 147 (reproduced) attributes it to Ansell. In a former hand in pencil "Cruikshank." T h e figures of Pitt (especially) and Bonaparte suggest that IC at least etched the plate. Bonaparte in uniform leans over the font; the Bishop of Rochester says, "Name this child". Pitt says, "Deliverer of Europe and Pacificator of the World." Lord Hawkesbury and Wilberforce attend.

[150] •CHARACTERS SKETCHED IN T H E VICINITY O F LONDON.

Aug. 1, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 3, p. 10 (in five compartments, folded). Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8932. Illustrating their games and various diversions. [151]

[156] . Original pen and watercolor (12i/ 2 x97/ 8 inches). [Isaac Cruikshank] Ca. 1790 (date determined by the person's costume, as suggested by James Laver in a letter to me, Sept. 26, 1958). Victoria and Albert Museum, Dept. of Paintings, no. 1705-1871. A sequel to " T h e Lost Child." Outside the house, the mother rushes to take the child from a young woman who points accusingly at an elderly woman who has been detained by the Town Crier. T h e rest of the family are expressing their pleasure at the child's return.

Vide Page 149. Vol. II. An illustration from Roach's Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. Published by J . Roach. Feb. 1st. 1796. [I.] Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. Charlotte leans against a drooping tree contemplating a tomb surmounted by a heart. • C H A R L O T T E AT T H E T O M B O F WF.RT[H]F.R.

CHILD

[152] C H E A P RAZOR MERCHANT

A LA

(THE) .

J u n e 9, 1806. Laurie 8c Whittle. Heading to engraved verses: T h e Words written by Peter Pindar Esqr. A droll. 426. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10675. A half-dressed man, with bleeding face, rushes angrily at a complacent peddler who has a sack on his shoulder and razors in his pocket. T o the man's protests, the peddler replies, "Upon my soul I never thought they would shave." "What were they made for then, you dog?" 'Made," quoth the fellow, with a smile, "to sell!"—a procedure that is even more frequent today.

FOUND

(THE)

[157]

(A) . T h e inheritor of his father's virtues. D all graft but which graft. July 9, 1807. Fores. IC k ". Seen in Mr. Sessler's collection, Feb. 28, 1917. A woman is driving two people out of her house. CHIP O F T H E OLD BLOCK

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[158] • C H I P S OF THE

Bemet Gall., 1942). 8i/ 2 xl2 in. See the following item (163.)

BLOCK—Specimens of true Breed

or the Gallic Mongrel at Bay. Septr. 26, 1803. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10105: [Williams.]. Broadley, 1, 192, attributes the plate to I. Cruikshank. Vol. 2, list no. 174. This is not much like an IC print; perhaps he etched it from Williams' design. Towler, a ferocious-looking dog, and five pups all warn Boney, an olive-colored ape (?), to keep off. He holds by a rope a donkey with a load of Swiss cheese, and in his right hand a pole carrying a Liberty cap, and chains. T w o dogs, labelled "Signor" and "Snarl," and a hog ("Mynheer") help him.

[163] CITY CANDIDATES

(THE) .

N.d. Tegg. Isaac Cruikshank. A political satire. See the previous item with this title, from which this plate was engraved. [164] [CITY FEAST,

(A.) ] .

[? 1805] No pub. Small (8j4x63/ 8 i n ) . [I.] Cruikshank Sep. BM 10490. Title supplied by BM editor. A footman brings in a small dish, from which protrude two bones. Sir William Curtis and the others at the table complain of the meagre fare.

[159] or a kiss under the mistletoe. Oct. 20, 1794. Laurie 8c Whittle. 128. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8587 assigns no artists. Most of the figures resemble Isaac's style. He was unusually active at this time. T h e cartoons in the BM on both sides are assigned by the BM to him. A groom kisses the cook beneath the mistletoe. Others look on, amused. T h e scene is described in eight lines of verse.

[165]

CHRISTMAS CAMBOLS,

CITY SHEEP SHEARING

[160]

[166]

, or grand-papa's darling. Caries., 8, 13. N.p., n.d. [Jan. 20, 1796] A. de R., 5, 78. Woodward Delin. [?I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9810. A small boy who is devouring a Christmas pudding is praised by his admiring grandfather.

CHRISTMAS PUDDING

(THE) .

April 12, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11309. Reid 74. Douglas 77. Three sturdy shearers (Quin, Waithman and Combe), with shears and comb, are fleecing four rams that have human faces (Curtis, the Lord Mayor Sir Charles Flower, Alderman Price and Shaw) . A satire on the Mayor and his friends in retaliation for siding with the Duke of York against Mrs. Clarke and Wardle.

(THE)

riding against the wind! April 15, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 100, p. 215. Woodward del. I. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9155. A gaunt cleric on an emaciated horse plods toward his chapel. This contrasts on the same page with its companion piece (Plate 99, "clerical prosperity." •CLERICAL

[161] or how to scale a pulpit! (Subtitle) "O'Meara deliver'd me your letter yesterday morning, he wishes to preach before Royalty & I'll put him in the way for it." "Hints from an Old Soldier on the Art of Rising in Church or State." Feb. 28, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11224. Reid 63. T h e Duke of York, in full uniform, and Mrs. Clarke hold a ladder in the Chapel Royal for O'Meara as he climbs to the pulpit. On Mrs. Clarke's right arm hangs a reticule full of gold, marked "Indispensible." •CHURCH PROMOTION,

ADVERSITY—or

[167] • C L E R I C A L ANTICIPATION.

March 1 1, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 75, p. 165. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. BM 9138. A stout parson leans on the fence of a pigsty, gloating over a sow with her piglets. [168] •CLERICAL

POLITENESS.

March 11, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 79 (page not given). Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sp. BM 9142. T h e younger man makes obeisance to the older as he mounts the stairway to the pulpit.

[162] . Title written on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.9 (Parke-

CITY CANDIDATES ( T H E )

[169] riding with the wind! (on the upper half of the plate; artists, dates,

•CLERICAL PROSPERITY—or

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etc., being named on the lower half). Ecc. Exc.: PI. 99. [April 15, 1797. Allen 8c Co.] [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank sculp.] BM 9154. A portly, prosperous English clergyman rides toward his square-towered church followed by a footman. [CLIFFORD VS.

[170]

BRANDON]

Title supplied by BM editor. Dec. 1809. No pub. [I. (? and G.)] Cruikshank del. BM 11434. A famous trial of the day. Brandon and Kemble, followed by a dejected Judge, are being hooted out of Westminster Hall.

[171]

" C L I M B I N G T H E H I L L AT LINCOLN.

Feb. 26, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 74, p. 168. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9137. A stocky man with the aid of a stout stick climbs the steep hill, followed by his panting wife.

[172]

, a scene on the Continent. Jan. 12, 1795. J . Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8608. An anticipation of the invasion of Holland, satirizing the attitude of the Dutch to the invaders. T h e Republic was still a member of the Coalition. COALITION

(THE)

[173]

•COAT O F ARMS FOR A S T A M P ON INCOME

George's work in this engraving." P.U.M.C. has this print still uncatalogued. The two came to London together; one thrived on leather, the other starved on poetry. [176] COBLER S W I F E .

Novr 12, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. Heading to engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Mathews, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in the Grand Operatic Romance "The Forty Thieves". pi. Cruikshank] BM 10690: "Watermark 1807," i.e. a reissue. A.S.W.R., p. 215. A Turkish cobbler, flourishing a strap, threatens his fleeing wife. The last verse ends, "Twou'd break my heart to lose my awl,/ T o lose my wife's a trifle." [177] •COCKING T H E

COCKNEY, T H E ORIGIN O F

[174]

[178] COLD SEASON

(A) .

Feb. 12, 1799. Laurie 8c Whittle. Caries., 2, 140. A droll. 227. I. Cruikshanks delint. BM 9496. A street scene in snow, which causes various kinds of trouble for pedestrians.

(A) .

[179]

COLLECTION O F GHOSTS (A) .

Feb. 26, 1796. Fores. Caries., 8, 66. IC (on tombstone). BM 8914. J . B. Towsend collection. A design in eight compartments. In each, a ghost, usually a fantastic monster, appears to persons whose thoughts are etched above their heads.

(THE) .]

May 1, 1791. Fores. (No title given.) Caries., 7, 16. IC. BM, 8026, supplies above title. A cobbler standing on his bench preaching, with a man and two old crones behind him. Below the design are two engraved stanzas, beginning, "Behold the man," etc.

[180]

COLLECTION O F HOBGOBLINS

(A) .

Feb. 25, 1796. Fores. Caries., 8, 67. Woodward del [?IC sculp.] BM 8915. J . B. Townsend collection. Ten little men with enormous heads and grotesque expressions. [181] •COLLEGE FUN, or Quizzing the Proctor. Nov. 6, 1796. Fores. Unsigned.

[175]

COBLER AND T H E P O E T

(ETCHING) .

See Origin of Cockney (item 858).

Dec. 20, 1798. Fores. Unsigned, pi. Cruikshank] BM 9283. The coat of arms is composed of a family at a dining table, which has all but a small slice of its pudding snatched by a tax collector, who passes it to Pitt, who is the lion supporting the coat of arms. The unicorn, the other supporter, is Dundas. [ • C O B B L E R TURNED PREACHER

GREEKS.

May 16, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [?l. Cruikshank] BM 8878: [PWest]. "IC?" in pencil in former owner's writing. See Grego's Gillray, p. 212, which reproduces this plate without evidence of authorship. Lady Archer and Lady Buckinghamshire (both characteristic of IC's caricatures of these two) stand in a pillory. Lord Kenyon as Crier, rings a bell (marked " K " ) . This print is stamped "S.W.F.," i.e. Fores' own copy.

(THE) .

Sung by Mr. Fawcett, etc. Apr. 25, 1808. Laurie and Whittle. A droll. 487. I. Cruikshank. BM 11198. Douglas 1812. Cohn (1000) : "There is probably some of

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[?IC] Not found in B M . Sayers has been suggested as the artist. A college boy pins a derogatory notice on the back of a Proctor as he reads a Proclamation for a General Fast. Sept. 1, 1796. T w o students scoff. Background of Oxford college buildings. This print is much like the "Eccentric Excursions" plates of Oxfordians.

[I. Cruikshank] B M 9549. Fores' own copy (S.W.F. stamp). In a satire on a dinner given to Fox on Oct. 10, an unusually villainous crowd is shown sitting about a table cheering remarks by the candidate (Fox). Among others he mentions Lord North, "whose detestation of the American War is known to you all!" Fox's features are different from IC's portrayal of him.

[182]

[187]

•COLLEGE PORTRAITS.

Deer. 31, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 50 (p. not numbered). Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8976. Nine busts of collegians, with different facial expressions, about whom the author asks which is likely to succeed.

CONSOLATION IN THE GOUT.

Nov. 26, 1789. [Pub. not given.] Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. T w o old topers, one with a foot, the other with a hand swathed in bandages.

[188]

[183]

CONSULAR

[184]

•CONSULTATION OF DOCTORS (A) ON THE CASE OF S I R T O B Y B U M P E R ! ! [?1809] Tegg. Nos. 13 and

DEVOTION

ATTENDED

BY

HIS CONFESSOR. Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor, 1803, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.8 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 9|4xl3i4 in. There is an unfinished sketch on the verso of this cartoon.

or Festival of wit and humour. By G. Colman the younger. [Isaac Cruikshank] A droll frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank. Of this P.U.M.C. has two impressions, each inscribed in GC's autograph: "By my father Isaac Cruikshank G. Ck." [Book] 16mo. Pp. [l]-64. London. N.d. [1810?] Printed and published by M. Allen, sold also by T . Hughes et al. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I 1810. Not in Cohn or Douglas. COLMAN'S JESTS,

[NAPOLEON?[

[189] 225. Caries., 10, 98. Woodward del [?I.] Cruikshank Sp. B M 11468, Four doctors discuss using the bark (quinine) after first abating the thirst. T h e patient, from his bed, calls to them to "cure the fever & send me a nice cool tankard of Madeira and I'll abate the thirst."

COL. PATTY-PAN. SIR JOHN SUGAR-STICK.

Oct., 1809. Fairburn. [I. & G.] Cruikshank. BM 11382. On the Widener copy is autographed "By Isaac Cruikshank, some parts by me Geo. Cruikshank." Reid 85. Cohn 457. Folding frontisp. (to " T h e Jubilee, alias JewBelly of 1809," a 28-page anti-ministerial satire) . There are two compartments to the frontispiece: in one, Alderman Birch, a pastry cook, in uniform, carries a birch rod for a sword; in the other, Alderman Earner, a grocer, carries a stick of sugar cane.

[190] . Songhead to printed verses. Sung by Mr. Fawcett. Dec. 7 [? 1807]. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 479. Unsigned. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank del.] BM 10958. A man with a pretty girl on his knee; on the table and in a wine cooler are several bottles. CONTENTED FELLOW

[185]

in the Sanctum Sanctorum. An engraving above a printed broadside. [ca. Mar. 1809] Fairburn. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11291. T h e Duke of York in a nightshirt bows low to Mrs. Clarke in bed, who won't let him come York over her till he promises her various appointments. COMING YORK OVER HER,

(THE)

[191] [•CONTENTED INNKEEPER

(A) .]

Nov. 9, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 238, p. 99. Woodward del. Cruikshanks, sculp. BM 8965. A pleasant-looking character in a short wig, smoking a long clay pipe.

[186]

[192]

. England. France. N.d. [? 1800] J . Sidebotham. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] Not found in BM. France says, "We beat you every battle!"

Out Caesar out nullus. I am ever ready to exert my abilities for my Constituents but I am best Judge where!!! Oct. 14, 1800. Fores. Unsigned. •COMMON GARDEN ORATOR—or

•CONTRAST

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(THE)

England (John Bull) replies, "You lie." Both are in full regimentals.

[193] or the opposite consequences of good and evil habits exhibited in the lowest ranks of h u m a n life: being authentic memoirs of notorious characters who have distinguished themselves for their vices, and entertaining anecdotes of persons eminent for their virtues: the whole forming interesting, moral & instructive subjects. Embellished with plate. [Anon.] [Book; 8vo. 291 pp. uncut. 20 and 19 chapters. London. J. Bumpus. 1811. A frontispiece without title, a vignette (Isaac Taylor sculp.), and fourteen illustrations (all without title), each has engraved on the plate: "Sketch'd by I.S.D. I. Ck. etd." (One says, 'Etched by Isaac Cruikshank.") T h e illustrations are marked Page 11, Page 31, Page 39, Page 59 Page 85, Page 117, age 127, Page 140, Page 185, Page 196, Page 233, Page 248, Page 256, Page 262, Page 277, Page 282. Part 1 exhibits the bright side of the contrast in the life of Sarah Meanwell; Part 2 the dark side in the life of Richard Coreworm. •CONTRAST

(THE)

( T H E ) or tiie opposite consequences of good and evil habits exhibited in the lowest ranks . . . [title continued as in the Bumpus 1811 ed.l [Book] 8vo. 291 pages, 20 and 19 chapters. London. T . Longman. 1787. T h e illustrations, without titles, are of the same subjects as in the Bumpus edition (see preceding item), and etched to face the same pages, but in the copy seen in the H.E.W. room at Harvard are eight in number. T h i s edition lacks the illustrations on pages 11, 31, 59, 117, 127, 196 and 256 of the Bumpus edition. CONTRAST

[195] [ • C O N T R A S T E D OXONIANS]

December 31, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 49, p. [120], Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc. BM 8975. T w o collegians, one drunk and staggering, the other mincing with one foot forward and toe pointing to the ground.

[196] or war opinions!! I.C. An original signed drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 185.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). Ca. 13x16 in. "Satirical sketches for a political cartoon expressing the different tactical fighting methods of England (Army and Navy), France, Germany, Russia Turkey, Spain, the pirate the Indian, the cannibal." CONTRASTED TACTICS

[197] • C O N V I V I A L M E E T I N G AT N O T T I N G H A M

(A) .

March 11, 1797. Allen fc Co. Ecc Exc.: PI. 78. (page not given.) Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9141. A contented group sit about tables smoking and drinking ale that is handed to the waiter by a barmaid through a window.

[198] •COOL

ARGUMENTS!!!

December 13, 1794. Fores. I.C. (added in ink(?) BM 8502. Lord T h o m a s Erskine (1756-1823), later Lord Chancellor, holding in his raised hand a scroll marked "Treason," successfully defends persons charged with constructive treason. T h e plate mark appears only across the top. Above it in ink, in Mrs. (?) Cruikshank's handwriting, "His eyes are too large, by a shadow I think you might make his legs appear less." This is apparently a proof after letters, and accounts for the I.C. added in ink, the plate as first cut having been unsigned.

[199] (A) ! Symtoms [sic] of equality. April 1, 1800. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9530, names no artist. T h e Prince of Wales and his servant at a table, smoking long clay pipes. • C O O L P I P E IN P A L L MALL

[200] CORPORATION'S (THE) .

HOG'S

JOLRNEY

TO

SMITHFIELD

Feb. 26, 1790. Fores. Cruikshank. 1790. BM 7738. A fat alderman sitting in a two-wheeled cart embraces a huge pig. T h e cart is drawn by five men and pushed by two others, all making comments. T h e second of three satires against the Corporation of Windsor. See " T h e Corporation's Visit" (BM 7739) and " T h e Ghost's or the Taylor Befrited" (BM 7740). [201] • C O R P O R A T I O N ' S VISIT IN S M I T H F I F I . D , or the

(THE)

TO T H E I R

BROTHER

hog's feast on being sworn in. Mar. 8, 1790. Fores. I. Cruikshank 1790, signed on plate. BM 7739. T h e corporation hogs of Windsor at a table drink to the health of a newly elected Alderman, who has the head of a hog. [202] ( T H E ) . Original pen and ink sketch by IC. Aug. 1803. In Broadlev's collection. Broad ley 2, p. 304, no. 215. Wheeler and Broadley (reproduced) opp. p. 106. A print

CORSICAN

50

BA JAZF.T

IN LONDON

after this sketch was said to have been published by Holland with the same title. [203]

•CORSICAN B A J A Z E T IN LONDON'!!!

[207] COUNTRY CLUB

Heading to a printed song. Written by C. Dibdin, Esq. J u n e 3, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 395. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10504. A.S.W.R., p. 216. Men smoking and drinking around a table; their chairman, a parson, holds a speaker's hammer.

(THE) .

August 1803. Holland. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] Based on Broadley and appearance of the persons in the engraving. Not found in BM. Cp. original sketch (preceding item). Former owner's stamp of a bee. Bonaparte, in a cage and chained, is shown to a group that includes Pitt and Fox; the latter says, " I told you he was a slink [sneaky fellow] of a soldier." T h e exhibitor says, "Here he is my hearties—only a penny a piece—Don't be afraid to approach him, I've made him as tame as an old gib cat [a castrated torn cat (obs.) ] in a chimney corner."

[208] [COUNTRY DANCE

(THE) .

July 26-1804. Williamson. ICk. BM 10261. Broadley 1, 221; 2, list no. 222. A satire on the creation of the Empire. Napoleon crouches over the French throne, excreting. He says that by laying an egg, he'll soon get possession of the Royal Nest. Monsieur and his brother run away in disgust, cursing him for the stink he has made: "He has foul'd my nest so that I must run away." Below the title: "A Bird of Passage lately discover'd in France and supposed to be the most crafty of its species." * CORSICAN

[209] [•COUNTRY

FARMER

AND

WAITER

AT

VAUXHALL

(A)]. T i t l e taken from text. Sep. 10, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 15, p. 35. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8944. T h e farmer, having ordered supper in a " b o x " at the Gardens, curses the waiter for the high prices and meagre slices of ham.

[205]

MACHEATH.

Sepr. 16, 1803. Ackermann. Cruikshank sp. [Woodward del.] T h e designer's name is not engraved on the print. BM 10102. Broadley 1, 192. Reproduced in Wheeler and Broadley 2, opp. p. 162. Bonaparte stands on a cliff, with many ships in the sea and two forts flying British flags. "Which way shall I turn me/ How can I deside [sic]/ T h e Prospects before me, I long for to stride./ But 'tis this way or that way/ or which way I will/ J o h n Bull at his Post/ Is prepared with a pill." Lines, engraved in handwriting on upper part of the plate, are a parody on Air 52, Act 3 of T h e Beggars' Opera.

[210]

Contrasted with the pleasures of town. Written by Captain Morris. [April 6, 1807.] Laurie & Whittle. 464. [G. or I.] Cruickshank Del. BM 10945. M o mus assigns this to GC. Cohn (1023) and Reid (4493) make no comment. Douglas 1805. A coach drives into swampy water, and the drunken coachman has dropped his reins. T h e occupants are in a panic and screaming. COUNTRY

LIFE,

[211] [*A

COUNTRY

SCHOOLMASTER]

[#A

COUNTRYMAN IN TOWN—A LONDONER IN T H E

Decemeber [sic] 3, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 39, p. (blank). Woodward del. Cruikshanks, sculp. BM 8966. Bespectacled, and with a hood and straggly goatee, the teacher holds an ABC book in one hand, beating time with the other.

[206] COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT

(A) .]

IC (rt. lower corner) . A photostat (positive and negative) of an original large sepia sketch, held by a Philadelphia dealer, which he kindly allowed me to have copied some years ago. I do not recall that it had been given a title. A large group of youths and maids, with a few older ones. Some are seated at a table to the right, before which is a couple in lively conversation. T w o couples are dancing in the centre; a dog runs between their legs. T o the left, a fiddler playing, a woman nursing a baby beside him.

[204] CORSICAN CUCKOO

(THE) .

(THE) .

See p. 53. Size, 3x5 in. 111. from a book. No date or pub. [I.] Cruikshank del. G. Murray sculp. Seen at Harvard (H.E.W. room). T h e family are gathered around a steaming cauldron before an open fire.

[212] COUNTRY.]

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Aug. IS, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc., PI. 7, p. 20. Woodward del. Cruikshank scp. B M 8936. In the upper compartment, a farmer passes some well-dressed city dwellers; in the lower, a dandy arouses the awe or derision of the country folk.

along the Russian bear by a chain. It should be compared with Holland's print of Crazy Paul (item 216). It is embossed with an owner's mark (Broadley?) —a bee. In the Broadley collection. [216] A new Ballad to the tune of Crazy Jane. Feby. 5, 1801. Holland. IC. From the original design (see previous item). Broadley 1, 140 and 141; 2, p. 306, list no. 247. Of four verses, to be sung to the tune of "Crazy Jane," the last runs: Now for Gallia's cause right hearty Fickle as the passing Air, Led about by Bonaparte Growling like a dancing bear, How I shame the sons of Russia, While intent to work my fall, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Prussia, Cry "Come help us. Crazy Paul." CRAZY

[213] • C O U R T B O W T O AN A B S O L U T E M O N A R C H

(A) ,

or

the Minister providing against an Invasion. An original ink and colored sketch, "signed by the artist." [?1803] Hy4x\0i/2 in. T h e title and name of the artist repeated on the mount by Temple Scott. I.C.

Neptune points to a bird loft marked "West East North South." Pitt says, "All of them if you please. I mean to let them all loose and kick up such a rumpus as the world never experiench [sic] before." Behind him, Dundas (?) (uncolored) says, "Oh let's have them all. I've got the requisite we don't mind paying for them." T h e position of Neptune's legs was changed before coloring, the first position being left unchanged. For "Security against Invasion," an original sketch on the back of the paper, see item 1079. Both of these were designed to support English morale before Napoleon's threatened invasion. I do not know whether either was ever published. [214] Remarks on the cause of the Dispute between the Public and the Manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and on their right to raise the Prices of Admission, with a circumstantial account of the Week's Performances, from the opening of the Theatre on Monday, Sept. 18th, until the closing of the same on Saturday, Sept. 23rd, 1809. By John Bull. Colored Frontispiece, " T h e House that Jack built," by I.C. (assisted by G C ) . [Book] 12mo. Pp. 1—46. London. John Fairburn. 1809. In some copies other cartoons are included.

[217] £10,000 DAMAGES. Smeeton's Edition of the Trial between the Right Hon. Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget, K.B. for Criminal Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife. Which was tried in the Sheriffs' Court, before W. Burchall, Esq. and a Special Jury, July 19, 1808. Taken in Short Hand. Colored frontisp. [I.Ck.] On the frontispiece of the Widener copy GC has written in ink "Isaac Cruikshank, G. Ck." [Book] 8vo, blue paper covers. Pp. [1]—16. G. Smeeton. N.d. A.S.W.R., p. 208: From the collection of H. Galloway. [Price sixpence.] C R I M . CON.

C O V E N T GARDEN T H E A T R E .

[215] A new Ballad. "Orig. design by Isaac Cruikshank," quoted from a card in the Houghton Library (Harvard) catalogue of MSS. This watercolor and ink sketch is inscribed "for No. 247," which— perhaps by coincidence—is the same number as that given in the list in Vol. 2 of Broadley's book. T h e caricature satirizes the plight of Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Prussia in the face of the victorious Napoleon, who is dragging CRAZY P A U L ! !

PAUL!!

CRITICAL

REVIEW

[218] , or, Annals of Litera-

(THE)

ture. Three colored plates by IC. [Book] 8vo. London, 1796. (Author and no. of pages not given.) Chubbock list, p. 3, no. 18. [219] •CROP, OF

1791

(A) .

Sepr. 1, 1791. Fores. I. Cruikshaks [sic] 1791. BM 7999. A full-length portrait of a man with mincing gait, in the costume of a blood of the period. He wears a very tall hat and carries what looks like a short shillelagh. "Crops" was apparently a name given to bucks of this period because of their closely cropped hair. T h e term, at first at least, did not have political significance. [220] •CROPS

LAST

SHIFT

(THE) .

A folding plate in Vol. 3 of Attic Miscellany, p. 49. (61/8x8 in.) Nov. 1, 1791. W . Locke.

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Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch'd by Barlow. BM 7998. Four "crops" cut the tail off an ass on which an old woman is riding. "Barrymore" (reversed) on the collar of a dog, suggests that some crops were actively connected with that family.

ored humorous caricatures by George M. Woodward, engraved by Isaac Cruikshank. [Book] Oblong folio. Published in London by S. W. Fores, 1794-1800. From the collection of Clarence S. Bement. A.S.W.R., p. 10. [226] [CRUIKSHANKIANA]

[221] CROSS

A scrapbook containing etchings, proofs, caricatures etc., by Isaac, Robert and George Cruikshank, "some very rare." Large folio. Cohn sale cat., p. 94, item 630.

(THE) .

[PIC]

[Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] eight bound in 1 cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767f.

[227] , alias the bell weather. (Followed by nine engraved lines: Oyes! OyesI oyesl Wanted for a man who has long been endeavouring to serve his Country,/ alias himself, a Place either in the Treasury, Exchecquer, Bank, Customs, Excise,/ Pay office, V I C T U A L I N G office, India board, St. James's, or in any situation under/Government, Except the Army, can make himself usefull upon all occasions 8c is willing/ and ready to turn his hand to any thing, he can play on two Instruments at once. Calculate all/ Chances, 8c is thoroughly conversant with Vulgar Fractions, N B T h e reason of his leaving/ his last place was an Unlucky •CRYER

[222] CROWN

AND

ANCHOR

DESPERDADOS

[sic]

(THE) ,

or the cracked member belonging to the Bedlam Rangers. Aug. 8, 1803. Fores. IC. Broadley 2, p. 306, list no. 252. Houghton Library (Harvard). B M 10054: [Williams]. Burdett, leaning from the tavern window, says, " I say don't arm—don't enter the Volunteer Corps . . . but you Sailors all demand to be Captains, you Soldiers to be Colonels," etc. His audience contemptuously disagree. T h e Crown & Anchor was a hot centre of discussion of Burdett's candidacy to be returned from Middlesex. T h e title is a grisly pun on his connection with Despard, who had been convicted of treason and executed.

Oversight in an India Bill, direct to O P N / at Mrs. Armstrongs Queens Place, Bedford Row./ London, Published by S. W. Fores 50, Piccadilly, February 24, 1797.—Folios of Carecatures [sic] for the Evening.) February 24, 1797. Fores. I.C. BM 8989. Fox, ringing a bell, reads the above proclamation.

[223] us (THE) . Pictorial broadsides and humorous song-headings. Fifty-two comic designs to Popular Ballads. By the three Cruikshanks, the elder Isaac, Robert and the great George. Colored by hand (after the original) . [Book] Quarto. 136 pp. London, John C. Nimmo, 14, King William Street, Strand, MDCCCXCII. Publisher's Note: 520 copies. No. 285. T h e first twenty-five of these illustrations are wholly or in part by Isaac (1791 to 1808). Some marked "George" are really by IC, or I and GC, and are indexed under IC in the list of artists of the BM catalogue. •CRUIKSHANKIAN MOM

[228] •CRYING FOR A NEW

TOY.

Jan. 25, 1803. Williamson. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] Not found in BM. Napoleon (with the typical IC features), shown as a child sitting on the floor surrounded by toys, is crying for the imperial crown. His nurse (not identified) offers it to him: "Well child you shall have it, but I don't think you'll be a bit better for it." Broken bits of the "world" lie about on the floor.

[224] A collection of rare colored caricatures by Isaac Cruikshank (and 4 other artists) . . . Humorous Illustrations, 2 Volumes (118 prints). Theatrical Songs (58 prints), Songs and Tales (47 prints). [Book] 4to, 4 vols., published by Laurie 8c Whittle and others; 1780-1810. From the collection of Clarence S. Bement. A.S.W.R., p. 210.

[229] ci PID'S ANNUAL CHARTER or St. Valentine's Festival. Frontispiece by IC. [Book] 12mo. London. W. Parks. (Ca. 1798.) Chubbock, p. 3, item 19a. J . B. Townsend collection.

[CRLIKSHANKIANA]

[CRLIKSHANKIANA]

(THE)

[230]

[225] Forty-five oblong folio col-

CURIOUS

AND

ELIZABETH

53

REMARKABLE

CANNING

LIFE

AND

TRIAL

OF

containing a complete his-

Cruikshank. BM 11125 itemizes the twenty-four figures and their protests. Perhaps a reissue of a print published after 17%—the year of the death of Catherine II. Twenty-four figures all protesting at being seized by death. With each there is a skeleton always dancing. [236]

tory of the unfortunate girl, and an authentic account of the strange and mysterious affairlll between Mary Squires, the Gipsy, and Elizabeth Canning. See. See. [Book] Cr. 8vo. Pp. 5-30. Paper. London. W. Barrett. N.d. [1810.] Value (1924) £2. [I.] Cruikshank del. Col'd frontisp.: "The Two Ruffians Inhumanly Beating and Dragging Elizabeth Canning to the House of Mother Wells." Cohn, 107: "By Isaac, with some work by George." P.U.M.C.: Cruik 1810.

DANCING B E A R

(THE) .

DANCING B E A R

(THE) .

Title also written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing (ca. June 1794). From the Woodin sale cat., item 243.1 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 6s^x87/8 in. See the following item for the published print. Muzzled and chained, the bear is forced to dance by a tormentor armed with a long pole. [237]

[231] •CURSORY P E E P AT GREAT T O M O F LINCOLN

(A) .

March 11, 1797. Allen and Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 77 (no. page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9140. A gaping group exhibit various reactions as they gaze at the great bell, which is only half included in the background. [232] . Original pen and watercolor (7x9i/& inches). In Dept. of Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum. No. 144—1890. IC. Inscribed at left lower corner: "Drawn by my father, Isaac Cruikshank. GCk." Reproduced in R. Edwards' article in Burlington Magazine, April 1928, 52, 185. The GCk note can barely be made out in the Edwards reproduction, though it appears clearly in the photograph kindly prepared for me by the Museum authorities. An elderly woman, sitting in a small bare room, gives a reading lesson to a little girl standing beside her. Two other children sit on a bench, reading. [233] •DAME SCHOOL

(THE)

DAN B E A T I N G T H E P H I L L 1 S T I N E S

[sic].

May, 1792. Fores. IC. Meirs sale cat. 2376. Not found in BM, Broadley, Cohn, or Douglas. A pugilistic match. Belcher, Johnson and others. [234] DAN T H E W A I T E R ' S J O U R N E Y TO LONDON. Printed verses: Written and Sung by Mr. Emery. 500. Nov. 14, 1808. Laurie & Whittle. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11208. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2429. A.S.W.R., p. 216. Outside a rustic inn, a young man relates his experiences. [235] [DANCE O F D E A T H M O D E R N I S E D

(THE) ].

Oct. 1808. Wm. Holland. A large print (21x 27i/ z in.). Designed by G. M. Woodward. Etch'd by I.

June 12. 1794. Laurie Se Whittle. Isaac Cruikshank. A.S.W.R., p. 212. See previous item, the original sketch signed by Isaac Cruikshank. [238] • D A U G H T E R UNDER T H E F A T H E R ' S SUSPICION ( T H E ) .

Title supplied and written on mount by Temple Scott. IC (in ink). A pen (?and brush) drawing. 97/8x8 in. Bought by me at the Woodin sale, cat. item 184.6, p. 39 (1942). The attractive daughter, supported by her handsome mother, stands before her distinguished-looking father, seated, who questions her about a rose that he holds before her. The figures are all artistically and vigorously portrayed, a richly finished effect being obtained with the use of relatively few lines (varying greatly in width). T o me the drawing stands as one of the best evidences of IC's artistic ability. The sketch appears to have been done for reproduction, for the artist has changed the position of the mother's free arm, leaving his first choice for the arm's position untouched. However, I do not know whether a print from it was ever published. [239] [DAYS O F Y O R E ! ! ]

Feb. 16, 1797. Fores. Vol. 2, PI. 13. Woodward Delin. Cruikshanks sculpt. BM 9104: Title, etc., from A. de R„ 6, 2-3.) Eight pairs of figures in quasi-Elizabethan dress, in two rows. A cartoon adapting the days of Elizabeth to modern times. [240] [DAYS W E L I V E IN

(THE) !!]

April 8, 1797. Fores. Caries., 8, 49. Vol. 2, PI. 14.

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Woodward delin. [I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9105: Title, etc., from A. de R. (5, 4 - 5 ) . A companion to "Days of Yore," the preceding item. T h e eight groups satirize nervousness, late dining, expensive clothes, criminal conduct, gambling, etc. [241] , or mutual misunderstanding. Sept. 10, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 18, p. 38. Woodward del. IC sculp. BM 8947. A lawyer informs the judge, while the accused in the box seems terrified. Other lawyers and a sleeping beadle are seated at a table; the jury is in its box; onlookers are in the gallery. • D E A F JUDGE

(THE)

[242] DEATH OF MARIAE ANTONIETTE FRANCE (THE) .

[SIC] QUEEN

OF

Oct. 23, 1793. J. Aitkin, unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8343. She stands on the scaffold (not a portrait) with a confessor beside her; the executioner is behind the guillotine. Troops surround the scaffold. [243] . Vide page 206, Vol. II. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. Published by J. Roach . . . March 1st, 1796. Cruihshanks delint. Barlow sculp. Rizzio is being stabbed by one of the conspirators, while Queen Mary is restrained by another. DEATH OF RIZZIO

(THE)

[244] DEATH OF SIR J O H N MOORE

(THE) .

I. Cruikshank del. Frontispiece to a chapbook. No data on the book are available. T h e hero is seen falling from his horse into the arms of an aide-de-camp. T h e fighting continues, most prominently in a struggle between a Highlander and a French soldier. In the distance troops are seen embarking in the English fleet. [245] DEATH OF SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY

(THE) .

1803. Tegg. Colored etching. Woodin sale, item 337.2 (Parke-Bernet catalogue, 1942, Part 3, p. 69). I. Cruikshank. Inscribed below in ink: "By my Father. G. Ck." General Abercromby (1734-1801), while commanding the British troops in the Mediterranean, defeated the French at Alexandria, but died of his wounds.

[246] ,—or boots on a new principle. Jany 12th, 1804. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 326. Unsigned. PIC] BM 10349. A.S.W.R., p. 214. T h e deep one (slang for "a thorough paced rogue") tells his dad how he avoided paying for his new boots by ordering another pair for next week and promising to recommend the shop. DEEP ONE

(A)

[247] ( T H E ) , or beggars on horseback. June 9, 1797. Fores. 7. Ck. del. BM 9021. Naval mutineers glare at Admiral Buckner. Fox and friends are seen under the table ("Aye, we are at the bottom of i t " ) . T h e King stands by a table with a gang of roughs ("Tell him we intend to be masters"). A picture of Britannia hangs upside down on the wall. •DELEGATES

IN COUNSEL

[248] DEMOCRACY OF FRANCE ( T H E ) .

April 24, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8446. In the title of is etched over two exclamation points, the original title being "Democracy!!" A small juggler balances a large cup on which straddles a nude monster holding the decapitated head of Louis XVI. T h i s satire, one of the many on the Reign of Terror, is an unusually fierce one for Isaac Cruikshank. [249] DEPARTURE

FROM

HOME.

Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing in sepia crayon, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.10 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942.). 9%xl4 in. [250] DEPUTATION FROM ONE OF THE POPULAR SOCIETIES OF FRANCE ENDEAVOURING TO PERSUADE J O H N BULL THAT HE CAN DO BETTER WITHOUT A HEAD THAN WITH ONE!! (A) .

Oct. 12, 1794. Fores. G. M. Woodward delin. [I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8490. T e n headless Frenchmen frighten a grotesque John Bull with their proposal. [251] • D E P U T Y PENDULUM'S MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS.

Nov. 29, 1795. Fores. Eight engraved lines of his address. IC. BM 8700. His vague and meaningless speech deservedly puts his seven hearers to sleep. 55

[252]

Sepr. 5, 1805. M. C. Springsguth. A vignette, p r o b a b l y f r o m a book. 6yexiys. ICk. B M 10493. T h r e e tailors sitting o n their shop-board, w i t h the devil g r i n n i n g at t h e m f r o m their " h e l l " (the space b e n e a t h the b o a r d ) h o l d i n g a roll of cloth ("cabbage," or p i l f e r e d c l o t h ) .

. A Childs Christmas piece. P u b . by Belch, H i g h St. B o r o u g h , L o n . N.d. Unsigned. [Isaac a n d Geo. C r u i k s h a n k ] C o h n (1052): " T h e only k n o w n copy was in the B r u t o n collection, w h o stated it t o b e by Isaac a n d G e o r g e Cruikshank." DESERTED VILLAGE

(THE)

[258]

[253]

• D E V I L LOOKING OVER LINCOLN ( T H E ) .

DESIGN FOR A M O N U M E N T T O BE ERECTED IN GUILDHALL, IN GRATITUDE TO ALDERMAN BISCUIT FOR KILLING BUONAPARTE.

M a r h [sic] 11, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 76 ( n o page g i v e n ) . Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp. B M 9139. A r o u g h character looks d o w n over a p a r a p e t . T h e title refers to a carving of the devil o n t h e tower of the c a t h e d r a l .

Aug. 1809. Fores. U n s i g n e d . IC. B M 11356. R e i d 80. Douglas (1252): " T h e design of a naval action on t h e pedestal a p p a r e n t l y by G . C . " C o h n (1054): " T h e Douglas copy was inscribed "By my F a t h e r , Isaac C r u i k s h a n k , the s h i p p i n g by me, G. Ck.' " A caricature of Sir W i l l i a m Curtis, a favorite b u t t of the satirists, w h o is seen s t a n d i n g o n a pedestal, swallowing a small N a p o l e o n whose b o o t legs are waving wildly. H e holds a scroll inscribed " A F a i t h f u l A c c o u n t of the G r a n d E x p e d i t i o n , by an Eye W i t n e s s . " A flag b e h i n d h i m reads, " T h e T h r e e Ks, King, Kox, a n d Kurtis.—a Speedy Peace a n d Soon." B e h i n d , a p y r a m i d s u r m o u n t e d by a turtle.

[259] ( T H E ) ; W h a t a Pity!II [PJuly, 1803.] W i l l i a m s o n . U n s i g n e d . [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 10045. Broadley 1, 177f. N a p o l e o n , trying to get i n t o hell, is told t h a t the devil is a f r a i d he will cheat h i m as he has the D u t c h a n d Italians.

DEVIL W O N ' T TAKE H I M

[260] •DIALOGUE BETWEEN J O H N STUMP AND GILES HOBSON ABOUT INVASION! W r i t t e n a n d designed

by G. M. W o o d w a r d . Sepr. 12, 1803. M. Allen. T w o p r i n t e d c o l u m n s of d i a l o g u e below the plate, which measures 7i/ 2 x9i/g inches. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. B M 10097. Broadley 1, 9 - 1 1 , transcribes the text of t h e dialogue. Giles registers a l a r m , b u t J o h n Bull is cont e m p t u o u s at the idea of invasion.

[254] DESIGN FOR A SCENE (A) IN T H E INTENDED NEW MELODRAMA INTITLED T H E FORTY THIEVES.

M a r c h 25, 1805 (changed in ink t o 1806). I. Hays. U n s i g n e d . [?I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 10546. F o x as a tavern keeper is unsuccessfully app r o a c h e d on the subject of R e f o r m by a ragged r e f o r m e r . Seen t h r o u g h the w i n d o w is t h e new ministry—Erskine, Sheridan, Grey, L a u d e r d a l e , Grenville, M o i r a , Petty a n d S i d m o u t h .

[261] ••DIALOGUE

MRS.

BULL

AND

MADAME

BONAPARTE, w r i t t e n a n d designed by G. M. W o o d w a r d . J u l y 18, 1803. M. Allen. T w o colu m n s ( p r i n t e d ) of d i a l o g u e below the plate, a m o u n t i n g t o over 2,000 words. (7x9y2 in. T h e size of the sheet is 914x1514 in.) W. ICk. B M 10038. Broadley 1, 180. I have colored a n d u n c o l o r e d copies, b o t h h a v i n g t h e owner's bee stamp. Each lady extols her o w n h u s b a n d . An invasion broadside with the customary morale-boosting i n t e n t . A sample e x c h a n g e : [Mme. Bon.] " S u p p o s e n o w my h u s b a n d was to pay a visit to your J o h n . . . ." [Mrs. Bull]: " Y o u r boasting L o r d a n d Master . . . J O H N BULL, while he has a good KING a n d GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION to def e n d , only smiles at the i m p o t e n t Boastings a n d Threats of a Foreign UsurperW"

[255] (A) of a set of T w e l f t h N i g h t characters, entitled " T r a g e d y " a n d " C o m e d y . " N o d a t e given. Langley a n d Co. I.C. R e i d 33. A r a n t i n g q u e e n personifies the f o r m e r ; a clown, the latter. DESIGN FOR A WRAPPER

[256] [DESIGNS FOR TRANSPARENCIES FOR EXHIBITION ON ARRIVAL O F NEWS O F NELSON'S VICTORY AND DEATH AT TRAFALGAR]

T w o original watercolors by IC (1805). I n possession of A. M. Broadley, w h o says in a f o o t n o t e , " B e a u t i f u l a n d highly finished. . . . J u s t i f y i n g a h i g h estimate of his [IC's] artistic skill." See Broadley 1, 28.

[262] o r the lobster a n d crab. H e a d i n g to e n g r a v e d verses. Aug. 16, 1806. L a u r i e 8c W h i t -

[257] DEVIL AMONG T H E TAILORS

BETWEEN

DICK DOCK, (THE) .

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T h e book names thirty-nine types of rogues on the title page, and lists sixty orders of offenders, not all f o u n d in the Dictionary itself.

tie. A watermark of 1813 shows that the p r i n t h a d been reissued. A droll. 438. Unsigned. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k del.]: also a t t r i b u t e d to G C BM 10683.. Also M o m u s , p. 24: with " T h e Veter a n s " added to title. "Isaac and George Cruikshank. Aug. 26, 1806." Illustrated by GC in the "Universal Songster," 1825, 1, 173. Cohn 1062: "After George C r u i k s h a n k . " T h e P.U.M.C. (Cruik E 2440) copy has n o watermark, is dated Aug. 16, 1806. Outside an alehouse, by the T h a m e s near Greenwich Hospital, a one-legged sailor (the crab) insults a one-armed pensioner (the lobster) , b u t the verses show how the quarrel was m a d e up.

[265] . N B Every M a n must have his Way. T i t l e repeated on m o u n t by T e m p l e Scott as "A Difference of Taste." IC (in i n k ) . Original (wash watercolor) social cartoon. From Woodin sale (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942, item 184.8, p. 39. 7s/ 8 x 123/4 in. At a table are two men, one a romantic, with an open book, " T h e Kiss," the other a gross fellow, with a wineglass f r o m a bottle marked "Claret." T h e word Claret and touch-ups of his tie and features are, with the IC and the title, the only parts in ink. T h e design has been accurately cut out and attached to art paper. • D I F F E R E N C E IN TASTE (A)

[263] the downfall of Miss Nancy Wiggins. A songhead. Deer. 18th, 1806. Laurie & W h i t t l e . A droll. 452. IC. BM 10693. C o h n sale cat. (10229) : " F r o m a d r a w i n g by my F a t h e r , I. C r u i k s h a n k " written in ink by GC. A m a n and a w o m a n in bed, a figure at the foot holding a l a n t e r n ; the m a n reaches for his wooden leg. T h e ballad tells how she was killed by her fall downstairs a n d he was eventually hanged for her m u r d e r . DICKY DAY T H E CRUEL COBLER Or,

[266] DIFFERENT SENSATIONS.

Feb. 26, 1790. Fores. In two compartments: Bone of Contention; Portland Invention. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7631. A satire on the quarrel between Burke a n d Sheridan and the attempted reconciliation by the Duke of Portland. [267]

[264]

DIGCING AND DELVING.

Deer. 16, 1806. Laurie 8c Whittle. H e a d i n g to engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Incledon, in his P o p u l a r E n t e r t a i n m e n t of Hospitality. A droll. 451. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10692. A.S.W.R., p. 215. A countryman leans on his spade before a rustic cottage, with a dog on guard at his side. F o u r lines of the verses on the philosophy of digging are given in the BM list: "Come Measter I be's going to sing,—/ At least I be's going to try . . ./ Some dig for this thing some for t h a t ; / But Sexton digs for all."

• • D I C T I O N A R Y O F T H E SLANG AND CANT LANGUAGES: ANCIENT AND MODERN. B y G e o . An-

drewes. [Book] Sm. 8vo. 32 pp. L o n d o n . Smeeton [18091. Colored frontispiece, signed Cruikshank delt., entitled T h e Beggar's Carnival. 7i/ix4i/ 2 in. For a separated frontispiece, see BM 11475. Reid says (55) : " I n one of my copies, G.C. has written in pencil 'By my Father Isaac Cruikshank,' a n d f r o m the two small wall pictures has r u n lines to two GC's' in the margin." O n the back of the frontispiece in Mr. T r u m a n ' s copy he h a d noted (in pencil), "An extremely rare little book. T h e plate is by Isaac Cruikshank largely assisted by his then very young son George, w h o has signed as his work many parts of the plate." Douglas (319) states that in Mr. Bruton's copy, George noted that it was partly his work. Cohn (29) : " T h e figures by I. Ck., the b a c k g r o u n d by G.C." T r u m a n W i d e n e r copy: T h e scene shows the Beggars' " m a n n e r of a m u s i n g themselves" a r o u n d two tables—drinking, fighting, lifting a handkerchief, etc. In the frontispiece, in a large room, with fireplace, candle a n d reflecter, and tables for guests, twenty-one persons are seen enjoying themselves d r i n k i n g , dancing, card-playing, etc.

[268] •DIGNITY—A cartoon of the City. "Dignity" written faintly in pencil at the top. T i t l e supplied and written on m o u n t by T e m p l e Scott. IC (signed in wash). An original colored sketch. From the W o o d i n sale, item 184.9, p. 39. (1942). 93/gxl4i4 in. A dignitary in his robes a n d chain of office struts along, preceded by a pair of halberdiers, a n d followed by a pair of civilians a n d a third halberdier. A misshapen dog in a corner. [269] • D I N N E R IN A TAVERN

(A) .

T i t l e supplied and written on the m o u n t by T e m p l e Scott, who adds, "From the Collection of Sir B. W . Richardson." H e also writes. 57

"Signed by the artist with his full autograph signature." Isaac Cruikshank. Original wash and ink drawing by Isaac Cruikshank signed by him in full, in ink, with a marginal list that includes Isaac himself, Robert, George, Percy, Douglass. This portrait of Isaac, probably unique, is the nearest to a portrait of him now known to exist. It has been discussed in some detail in this book in the section on his life. Woodin sale item 184.1, p. 39 (1942). [270] DIOCENES alias A. B in ton looking for an honest lawver!!! pi794] P. Roberts. IC. BM 8520. A well-dressed man holds a lantern in his hand. The plate deals with a speech by Lord Abingdon against a Mr. Sermon, who had refused to continue as his solicitor. "A. B in ton" is presumably a pun on the name of the noble Lord. [271]

the downfall of his Mucheron King Joe Bonoparte [sic] late pettifogging Attorneys Clark! Between two Stools the Breech comes to the Ground. Ackermann. July 19, 1808. [I.] Cruikshanks del. (assisted by George). BM 10001. Broadley I, 272; 2, 308, no. 282. Joseph Bonaparte sits, full face, on the ground between two stools, "Naples" and "Spain." Two crowns with wings fly toward their legitimate owners. They are labelled " T o Sicily" and "Ferdinand VHth." Joseph, dressed in ruff, slashed trunk-hose, and ermine-trimmed robe, exclaims, "Oh, Napy. Napy. begar you have made me lose both de Crowns." Under the second crown a scowling British sailor holding a cudgel, his cheek bulging with tobacco, says, "Your Crowns, you lubberII You had better sheer off quickly or you'll lose your Head too." Mountains occupy the background. Joseph, decreed King of Naples by Napoleon (Mar. 30, 1806) after the Neapolitan Bourbons had fled to Naples, was called to Bayonne by Napoleon in May 1808, and proclaimed King of Spain and the Indes on June 6. Joseph, who had entered Madrid in state on July 20, was forced by the turn of the war to leave almost immediately. •DISAPPOINTED KING OF SPAIN—or

[272] •DISCARDED CLARK (THE) , or Eve driven out of Paradice [sic], June 1807. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank sc.] BM 10741: [Williams]. An engraved portrait bust of Mrs. Clarke, by C. Chappie (3]/ 2 x6 in.), is attached to my copy. Mrs. Clarke is being driven away by Coun-

sellor Adam. In the background, before the Commission Warehouse, two officers discuss the purchase of commissions with two civilians. The figure of Mrs. Clarke does not look like Isaac Cruikshanks work, though that of the Counsellor might well be his. •DISUNION (A) , or tlie Family Compact Disturbed. Feb. 26, 1791. Fores. IC (etched on plate beneath the bear). BM 7828. Lord Landsdowne holds "little Jeky" by a chain. Joseph Jekyll had been returned by him for his borough of Calne. Fox approaches a bear (John Morris, M.P. for Calne) that has broken loose from Landsdowne's chain.

[274]

DIVERSIONS OF HATFIELD.

July 24, 1789. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8269. An archery contest, showing Lord Salisbury and others. The target is on a tree that is shaped like a woman, the branches being like upraised arms. [275] [sic] OF PURLEY, or Opposition attending their private affairs. June 5, 1797. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9020. Fox, Home Tooke and Thelwell incite "Revolution" and "Sedition," two monsters that Fox nourishes. Erskine and Grey assist him; Sheridan is at a washtub, singing. [276] DIVIDING THE SPOIL [Sic]!! May 20, 1796. Fores. I. Ck. BM 8880. Two designs: St. James and St. Giles. Women gambling at faro in St. James; four prostitutes dividing their night's plunder at St. Giles. DIVERTIONS

[277]

(A) . N.p., n.d. (copy cropped). Heading to engraved verses. Caries., 10,241. 37/8x3 in. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 10671. A fat parson sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee. [278] DIVINE

IN

HIS

GLORY

•DOCTOR ADMINISTERING HIS GILDED PILL

(THE) .

March 29, 1802. Fores. Five engraved lines below the title. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank sc.! BM 9849: [Williams]. My copy strongly suggests Isaac Cruikshank's work. Dr. Addington, Chancellor to the Exchequer, gives a gilt ball marked "Income T a x " to a well-dressed citizen.

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[279] •DOCTOR AND HIS FRIENDS

(A) .

Oct r . 6, 1798. Fores. Woodward del. [I] Cruikshank sp. Not found in B M . A seated devil pours wine on a jolly doctor's head; a skeleton reads a book with a countryman.

A satire on Dumouriez' retreat from Belgium. Shedding tears, he vomits a lot of valuables marked "Anvers, Bruxelles, Louvain," and urinates a stream marked "Klundert, Br£da, Gertruidenberg." [286] DOUBTFUL

Feby. 7, 1799. Ackermann. Woodward del [I] Cruikshank sc. Spencer, 1922, no. 80; Meirs, 264.1. T w o figures. (See companion piece, Positive Love, item 922 published the same day.)

[280]

[DOCTOR (THE) BOTHER'D or opposition consistency!] T i t l e written on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. Four original drawings on one sheet—all relating to Pitt's administration. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.13. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10i/ 2 xl2i/i in.

[281] DOCTOR

INDULGED

WITH

HIS

FAVORITE

SCENE

(THE) .

Dec. 12 [?1790]. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 7690. A satire on Dr. Price's famous sermon, " O n the Love of our Country." Here he looks through a peephole where ruffians are smashing Marie Antoinette's apartment, while she escapes down a staircase.

[287] DRAWING FOR T W E L F T H - C A K E AT ST. ANNES H I L L ! !

J a n . 16, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 9340. Fox, Tierney, Moira, Dukes of Bedford and Norfolk, Sheridan et al., of the Opposition, are inspecting their tickets. A satire on their supposed Jacobin sentiments. [288] •DREADFUD FEARS O F

SANGRADO R E L E E V I N G

OF T H E Y E L L O W

[SIC]

JOHN

BULL

FEVER.

[289]

Feby. 25, 1795. Fores. IC. B M 8620. Pitt bleeding J B of gold, which Portland catches in a bowl, while the nurse (Windham) prepares more hot water.

DRILLING O F

PATIENTS

DIE.

24th Deer 1794. Laurie 8c Whittle. 143. [?I. Cruikshank del.] B M 8590. A.S.W.R., p. 212. A patient, in shroud-like wraps, gazes at his doctors fighting. T h e y upset a table covered with medicine, as the fatter of the two seizes the thin man's pigtail, while the latter flourishes his opponent's wig and clutches his neck cloth.

[290] DRINK TO M E O N L Y W I T H T H I N E E Y E S .

J a n . 4, 1799. Laurie 8c Whittle. Eight lines of the song engraved beneath the design. A droll, 224, the first of ten in the B M sequence of drolls. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 9494. A middle-aged couple at a small table, each holding a glass of wine.

[284] DOG T A X GATHERERS IN SEARCH O F

PUPPIES.

[291]

May 6, 1796. Fores. Woodward Delint. [I. Cruikshank fecit.] B M 8802. Six groups illustrate the public's dislike of tax gatherers.

DRIVE IN HYDF. PARK.

March 20, 1809. Fores. E. Delaney Delt. Cruikshank Sp. B M 11264. Mrs. Clarke drives two donkeys tandem—the leader, "Recollection," is kicking, the wheeler, "Subterfuge," rearing. She appeals for help to Burdett, who is riding an ass, "Miss Application," while Wardle in regimentals gallops up on "Eloquence."

[285] DOSE F O R DUMOURIER [ S i c ]

RECRUITS.

T i t l e written on mount in autograph of T e m ple Scott. I.C. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.7 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 7i/ 2 xl0s/ 8 in.

[283] DOCTORS D I F F E R AND T H E I R

INVASION!!

Aug. 2, 1803. Williamson. IC. B M 10049. T h r e e jovial citizens drinking damnation to all Corsican usurpers. One of the many patriotic satires issued when invasion of England seemed probable.

[282] •DOCTOR

LOVE.

(A) .

April 11, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 8322. Van Stolk 5119.

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[292] •DROITS, DROITS, DROITS!!

Feb. 19, 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] 1808 (on plate). BM 10967. Reid 39. On my copy, George Cruikshank has written in ink, "By my Father I. Cruikshank not a touch by me GC." Fores' own copy, stamped "SWF." John Bull bringing in tax money is horrorstruck while on the British throne are sacks of money derived from taxes which the Duke of York is collecting in a large bag, to the consternation of the Lion and Unicorn. On the right the people call, "Oh, give us some bread"; on the left, the Duke's well-fed satellites hold out various receptacles including a pot de chambre. On Feb. 11, complaint was made to the House of Commons of misapplication of the Droits of Admiralty. [293] DUBLIN SMUGGLER

(THE) .

A songhead to printed verses. Adapted from the Monthly Mirror. Jan. 12, 1808. Laurie fe Whittle. A droll. 481. ' Cruikshank Del. BM 11193: [I.] Cruikshank Del. See also Cr. Momus (opp. p. 40) : "George Cruikshank." An Irishman flees from the seashore, holding a poker and an exploding cask of gunpowder. Another man threatens to tell the exciseman. [294] , or York flame. Dec. 6, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 7930. In two compartments: upper half, Van Buchel's Spring Garter; below, two views of the Duchess of York's small foot.

DUCHESS BLUSH

(THE)

[294a]

[Portrait of.] IC (in small letters in ink above left shoulder). An oval ( 1 ^ x 2 in.) Original, inscribed "Drawing of the late Duchess of York." A gray wash, touched with ink in pupils, between lips, on ermine, jewelry, etc. Artistically executed. Purpose not known. [295] DUEL ( T H E ) or Charley longing for a pop. June 1, 1798. Fores. IC. BM 9223. Pitt vs. Tierney, Fox, Bedford and Norfolk. Behind Pitt, Dundas and the King (showing hand only) saying, "Stop the Duel." [296] •DUCHESS O F Y O R K , T H E LATE

& co.—March 13, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8813. Dumouriez, half dressed in regimentals and followed by a sans-culotte, approaches a barricade manned by frog soldiers. His threatened invasion of Holland was prevented by lack of food and transport, and also by the English support of the Dutch. VENTED B Y MESSRS. FROG

DUNGHILL

[296a]

(THE)

AND

GAME

PULLET

OR

Boney beat out of the Pitt. Tegg's Caries. No. 9. April 27th, 1810. pi.C. del. and/or sculp.] The copy seen at Sessler's, June 1960, has no artist's signatures. The engraving strongly resembles Isaac's work. Napoleon, in green, with bicorne and plume, says, "Marbleu, I have discharged my artillery to no purpose. I must give orders to my Aide de Camp to renew the attack and instruct him how to mannouvre [sic] from a distant hill." Marie Louise, in a swing marked "Nationale Cradle," calls, "Batter away my little Boney, pour in another round or two before you look for a Flag of Truse [sic].'' At the back a British officer, wearing a bicorne with upturned ends and a white plume, looks at the Empress with a monocle. A dog ("sneaky cur" inscribed on collar) has "Brought from Egypt" on his side. "One of Boney's Pack" appears on a white cloth on the ground near him; 'Maria Louisa's delight" on another. Marble figures, marked "Stolen Images," are off to one side. The I of "Images" is just like an I often used by Isaac in his signature, as are several other /'s to be found on this plate. [297]

( T H E ) SCC. Vide p. 80. Vol. 1. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. London. J . Roach. 1795. Cruikshank del. Reading sculp. A battered lover sits on a stoop. Three women are coming out to help him. •DUPE O F LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

[298] DURHAM MUSTARD TOO P O W E R F U L FOR CAPERS, OR T H E OPERA IN AN UPROAR.

ITALIAN

[?Mar. 1798] J . McQuire. (Reissued by Tegg in 1807.) Unsigned. [I. Cruikshnk] BM 9300. The Bishop of Durham advances to attack four danseuses. The cartoon is directed against two plays; " T h e Divil of a Lover," and "Peeping Tom."

•DUMOURER [SIC], & HIS AID DU CAMP ON F U L L MARCH TO SEAL UP T H E PAPERS O F T H E PRINCE O F

ORANGE. B Y ORDER OF T H E CONVENTION B U T PRE-

COCK

DUTCH

60

IN AN

[299]

UPROAR

(THE)

, or the Batavian

Republic crying for Winter! Oct. 15, 1797. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 9034. Broadley 2, list no. 294: " I C . " Dutchmen at a council table lament their bad fortune. Four days earlier, Duncan had destroyed de Winter's fleet off Camperdown. [300]

CIANT, or the strong lad of Brighton taking off the Prince's chum! II IC. BM 8679. A small, well-dressed man (Sir John Lade) carries on his back a huge naked person (Lord Cholmondeley). Lade had bet him that he could carry him twice around the Steine at Brighton. T h e Prince of Wales and several ladies are watching. Actually the noble Lord refused to strip when so ordered. DWARF

(THE)

SC T H E

[301] • E A S I E R TO SAY THAN TO DO!

Apr. 14, 1803. T . Williamson. ICk. BM 9979. Broadley 1, 161: "One of an avalanche of satire plates, stimulated by the fear of invasion," 2, list no. 296. Napoleon takes advice from a Dutchman, a Spaniard and a Jew as to how to get rid of Great Britain on his New Map of the World. He thinks the Jew's plan to "lend a little more monish at turty per shent" . . . will soon annihilate them. [302] or the young statesman's ramble. March 24, 1784. Humphrey. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 6464. In seven compartments, each with inscriptions. A satire on Pitt's return from Grocer's Hall, attempting to blame him for a riot that occurred on February 28.

EASTWARD HO!

[303] . Specimens of Dramatic Phrensy PI. 6. Caries., 8, 75. N.d. [1804] Fores. G M Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshank sc.] BM 10329: [Williams ft.]. A ranting actor on his way home declaims, "I'll call you the Father!—Royal Dane." T h e watchman cries, "You may be d d Sir, call me what you please." EASY

REPLY

(AN)

[304] or Literary and Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character, & Country, in different parts of England, 8c South Wales. Interspersed with Curious anecdotes. Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic 8c Illustrative Prints. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, 8c cry 'Tis all barren! and so it is, and so is all •ECCENTRIC

EXCURSIONS;

the world to him, who will not cultivate the Fruits it offers." (Sterne). 100 Plates designed by G. W. Woodward, engraved by I. Cruikshank. (See the catalogue raisonné of this book, the individual plates, arranged by the first word of the title.) [Book] Royal 8vo. Frontispiece, engr. title, dedication. [1J-11, introduction [i]-v, pp. 6 217, directions to the binders, p. [218], Allen 8c Co. London: [1796] [1790?]. These plates are characteristic of the Woodward-I. Cruikshank team work. Always vigorous and colorful, they range from carefully etched and colored details to mere scrawls of the unimportant parts, with colors perhaps not fitting the lines of the plate (cp. PI. 2 4 ) . [305] , or Scotch hartshorn. Feb. 16, 1803. Fores. Caries., 8, 12. IC. BM 10183. A fainting Scot is supported in a chair, while another holds a chamber pot to his nose. A doctor runs off sniffing a cane, while a man and boy look on amused. An inscription below the title recounts that various stimuli for a man in a fit had failed, therefore a " J o r d a n " (chamber pot) full charged was used. Thereat the patient exclaimed, "Oh sweet Edinburgh I smell thee noo." [306] E F F E C T O F OVER-ACTING ( T H E ) . "Oh, T h e offence is rank."—Hamlet. A broadside of Shakespeare characters. N.p., n.d. Unsigned. I and GC. Not found in BM. Cohn (1082) : " T h e Douglas copy was inscribed by G. C. on each row. On the first: 'The 5 faces and hands by my father, I. Ck.'; on the second and fourth rows: 'All this by me, G.C.'; on the third row: 'All this by my father, I. Ck.' " Douglas (970) : Mr. Bruton's copy had " 'A joint production by my father and myself. G.Ck.' It is very rare." [307] EDINBURCH

SCENT

(AN)

•EFFECT (THE) OF T H E DEFEAT OF T H E COMBINED POWERS BY F R A N C E ON A DEMOCRAT AND

FRANCE. T i t l e supplied and written on the mount by Temple Scott. N.d. IC (in pencil). Original pencil (slightly colored) drawing. Woodin sale, item 184.2, p. 39 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10xl4s/8 in. T h e robust Democrat is wildly hilarious; the Aristocrat makes a wry face and shrugs his shoulders. [308] [ E F F E C T S O F A NEW PEERAGE ( T H E ) ]. (Title etc. from A. de R., 6, 8 - 9 ) . Dec. 11, 1797. Fores. Caries., 8, 30. Unsigned. [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank.] BM 9109. AN ARISTOCRAT O F

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Fourteen figures, in two rows, with speeches above each figure. A satire on Pitt's new creations. [309] [EFFECTS OF ADVERSITY

(THE)]

Nov. 1, 1794. Fores. Caries., 8, 53. Vol. 1, PI 7. G. M. Woodward delin. IC. BM 8545. Eight pairs of persons are pictured, one in each pair in some form of adversity. [310]

(THE) ] Title, etc., from A. de Roode, carics., I. PI. 3. [Woodward del. Cruikshank f.] Not in BM list. [EFFECTS OF DISAPPOINTMENT

EFFECTS

OF

[311]

FALSHOOD

[SIC]

(THE) .

Nov. 1, 1794. Fores. Caries., 8, 44. PI. 5. C. M. Woodward delin. (I. Cruikshank f.) BM 8543. Eight pairs of persons, whose various boasts and lies are believed. [312] EFFECTS O F FLATTERY

(THE).

June 1, 1794. Fores. Caries., 1, PI. 1. Designed by Woodward, Etched by I. Cruikshank. BM 8541. Eight pairs of persons in two rows, the flatterer always gaining by his flattery. This is the first of a series of "Effects," four of which are included in this list: of hope (PI. 2 ) , of peace; of falsehood (PI. 5 ) ; of prosperity (PI. 6) ; of adversity (PI. 7). The BM also cites several others, and speaks of ten in the A. de R. collection, not in the BM. [312a]

on the failure of the Bantry Bay expedition, etc. [315] [EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY

•EFFECTS OF ROUGH PAVEMENTS FOOTED PASSENGERS ( T H E ) .

(THE) ! ]

Nov. 1, 1794. Fores. Caries., 8, 85, PI. 2. Woodward delin. [I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8542: title, etc., from A. de R. 4, 162. Eight pairs of persons, illustrating a doctor and his gouty patient, etc.

TENDER-

E F F E C T S O F T H E DOG TAX.

April 19, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8796. Harvard Coll. Lib. Fox, Stanhope and Sheridan, as dogs with human faces, hang from a gibbet. Pitt, much caricatured, is a dog chained to the Treasury kennel. Ministerial dogs, with " G R " engraved on their collars (Portland, Burke, Dundas and Grenville) look on. A verse of eight lines beneath the title emphasizes the unpopularity of the tax. [318] EFFECTS OF TRAGEDY

(THE).

Nov. 12, 1795. Laurie 8c Whittle. 163. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8776. The stage and boxes of a theatre as seen from the pit. The tragedy being enacted has varied effects on the audience.

1794. Col'd designs (48) by IC on double sheets. Chubbock, p. 1, no. 10.

[EFFECTS OF HOPE

TO

Feb. 25, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 67 [p. 161]. Woodward. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9130. A man and a woman approach each other in the rain over a rough road. She carries an umbrella; he wears a cloak and scarf around his hat and chin. A dog proceeds miserably. [317]

EFFECTS OF FLATTERY (THE) , TRUTH, FALSEHOOD, HOPE, DISAPPOINTMENT, AND ADVERSITY. Folio.

[313]

(THE) ]

Nov. 1, 1794. Fores. Caries., 8, 53. Vol. 1, PI. 6. (Title, etc. from A. de R. 4, 158). Woodward delin. [I. Cruikshank fee.] BM 8544. Groups of two or three of which one always exhibits the effects of prosperity, good or bad. [316]

[319]

] Title, etc., from A. de Roode. Caries., 1, PI. 4. [Woodward del. PCruikshank f.] Not in BM list. [EFFECTS OF TRUTH

[ELECTION SCENE

(THE)

[320]

(AN) ]

Watercolor. [? 1798. In pencil on verso.] I.C. (in lower right-hand corner). The sketch in P.U.M.C. (p. 3581, Cruik IE 2740): "From the Truman Collection" on verso, in pencil. Inscribed "By Isaac Cruikshank." A dissenter orator on a platform harangues a sketchily outlined crowd, a church and a house filling most of the background. On a banner is inscribed "Firth forever," on another

[314] [EFFECTS OF PEACE.] (Title etc. from A. de R . 5, 194-195.) Caries., 8, 38. Ty. Squibb. [PWoodward del. ?I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9106. Ten figures soliloquize satirically on the blessings of peace—the alderman on his food, the prostitute on better business, the young officer

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"No Popery." In an open chest on the platform are seen books: the Bible, Walton's Angler, Orme on Elections, etc. T h e orator's features, in profile, take a concave form from nose to chin, giving him a peculiarly grim expression. T h i s vigorous sketch apparently is concerned with antipopery riots.

[Book] 8vo, 61 pp. London. A. Neil at the Sommerstown office. 1804. Price, 1 shilling. Not in Reid. Cohn 1090: " T h e date too early to have any appreciable work of George in it." Douglas 647: "A long line of the ancient high-castled ships of the period. In front, a terrace, with several figures on each side." T h e text covers the lifelong exploits of the Countess of Montfort, written in a mixture of history and pseudo-history, interlarded with romantic tales.

[321] EMIGRANT CLERGY READING THE LATE DECREE, THAT ALL WHO RETURNS [ S i c ] SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH. No[v], 15, 1792. Fores. Unsigned.

?[I. Cruikshank] BM 8130. Decrees of Oct. 23-25, 1792 condemned French émigrés to banishment, and to death if they returned.

[326] •ENGLISH PATRIOTS DESPOTISM.

GALLIC

Signed IC. Original sketch (mostly pencil). 10 x l 3 in. From the Woodin sale, 1942, item 184.11. Napoleon (not a portrait), enthroned, points pistols at a kneeling Frenchman, in chains: "Now Monsieur I am sure your are happy—I am crown'd at last—consider your freedom—and your duty to your new Sovreign" [sic], the latter written in IC's (?) hand. T h e Frenchman replies, "O Yes begar—You be so jenteel," etc. Behind him a kneeling Dutchman: "Gaul indeed—Yes he has gaul'd us prettily," etc. Behind Napoleon a spectacled devil. T h e lettering of title and speeches is in an excellent contemporary hand. [323] ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WIT

(THE)

FOR

1811.

[327] August 21st 1798. Laurie & Whittle. 16 engraved lines of verse beneath the design. 6i/^x 87/8 in. A droll. 222. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 216. BM 9330. T w o men sit in silent gloom at a table, on which is a huge tankard and reading matter. They are smoking long pipes. [328] Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. I.C. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.8 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7 ^ x 1 0 3 ^ in. ENLISTING.

[324] • E N D OF A BARN TRANSFORMED INTO A HOB-GOBLIN ( T H E ) . EFFECT OF IMAGINATION! I (THE) .

[325] 1342 (THE) , or the heroic exploits of the Countess de Montfort . . . till King Edward III sent a reinforcement to her relief. Anonymous. Folding colored frontispiece: Cruikshank sculp. •ENGLISH

FLEET IN

OF

ENJOYING A FRIEND.

Etched frontispiece, Baron Donder Dronk Dickorf, by Isaac Cruikshank. Cp. item 47, a songhead. [Book] 16 mo. Tegg (1811). Cohn sale cat., p. 119, item 810.

Feb. 11, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 59, p. 137. Woodward del Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9123. A farmer, carrying a lantern, is horrified by the goblin-like appearance of the barn in the pale moonlight.

AT THE SHRINE

Nov. 8th 1802. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank sp.] BM 9890: [Williams]. Broadley 1, 157 (reproduction, facing p. 158, labelled "By Isaac Cruikshank," though the text attributes it to Ansell and BM to Williams) . Fox, Erskine and the Lord Mayor Combe bow obsequiously before an enthroned Napoleon, dressed in pseudo-classical costume. T h e reproduction is not good enough to permit a judgment. My print, to me, favors Cruikshank.

[322] »EMPEROR OF THE GAULS PROCLAIMING LIBERTY!! ( T H E ) .

BOWING

[329] (THE) or the Sunday reformer or a Noble Belman [sic] crying stinking fish. J u n e 25, 1799. Fores. Cruikshank del. BM 9404. P.U.M.C.: IE 2649. An angry politician abuses the people who are calling their wares in the street, while a divine on the other side of the engraving tells them that their noise drowns out a duet. A satire on Lord Belgrave's bill to suppress Sunday newspapers. •ENRAGED POLITICIAN

[330] EPISCOPAL DELIGHT, A SCENE NEAR OATLANDS

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or

the babes in the wood with Rawheadon. Bloody Bones. Nov. 13, 1789. Fores. IC. BM 7562. T h e Duke of York (Bishop of Osnaburg) prodding the Duchess of Rutland. The officer on guard is Lord Rawdon. [331] •EQUESTRIAN SKETCHES FROM AN INN AT LOUGHBOROUGH.

March 4, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 72 [p. 175], Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9135. Three horsemen proceeding toward Leicester are observed by the author from a window of the Bull's Head. [332]

EVENTFUL L I F E AND WONDERFUL HISTORY OF THAT MOST NOTORIOUS CHARACTER, SWINDLER, AND FORCER, CHARLES PRICE, COMMONLY CALLED OLD PATCH, e t c .

Frontispiece. Unsigned. [IC] (dated Feb. 14, 1803.) [Book] 12mo. pp. [3]-40. London. Tegg and Castleman. 1803. [333]

EVERY LADY'S OWN FORTUNE TELLER.

Engraved frontispiece and title vignette by Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. J. Roach. 1791. Cohn sale cat., p. 119, item 811; author, place of publication, no. of pages, etc., not given. [334]

I.

•EXACT REPRESENTATION (AN) OF AN ATTEMPT MADE BY MARGT NICHOLSON TO STAB HIS M A J E S T Y ON WEDNESDAY AUCT. 2 , 1 7 8 6 .

Augt. 5, 1786. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 6973 names no artist. An insane woman holds a knife to the King's chest, while she presents a petition. A Beefeater steps forward to restrain her. Not a caricature, though drawn in that manner. Some parts are unfinished. Nicholson's face is coarsely stippled, the King's slightly so. [335]

EXACT REPRESENTATION FOOT.

(AN)

The exciseman has been tricked by a farmer into carrying a large barrel of brandy for him. ••EXCISEMAN

[337]

AND THE COUNTRYMAN.

N.d. [? 1808] Tegg. 122. N6. Woodward del. Cruikshank scp. BM does not list. One of the Woodward "N" series. The plate was also used in another series (of which this is no. 122). My two copies are colored differently. The exciseman advises the countryman not to go to law to defend his "char-acter," while a servant stands by with beer. [338]

EXECUTION OF GOVERNOR WALL (THE) , AND T H E CRUELTY OF GOVERNOR WALL AT COREE.

[P1802] No pub. Unsigned. [Isaac Cruikshank] Etching with two compartments. On one copy GC has written in ink, "By my Father, Isaac Cruikshank." Cp. "Gov. Wall's ghost," BM 9911, 1802, and "The Balance of Justice" [Williams], 1802. BM 9845. [339] or John Lump's ramble to Somerset House 8cc. Heading to engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Emery (with unbounded applause) at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. Written by G. Nicks. Augst. 4, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 432. Unsigned. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10679. A smart-looking countryman, standing in Smithfield Market amid oxen and sheep, tells his audience that all folks of condition pass'd a morning at the Somerset House Exhibition, and describes the "picters of the RA." Then he adds: "There's a rare exhibition at Plymouth and Portsmouth of the captured enemy's fleet." EXHIBITIONS,

[340]

EXPEDITION A LA LUNA.

[IC] Original sketch (unfinished). Summer 1803. In Broadley's collection. Broadley 2, 326 (no. 310 in table). Appears on the back of an original sketch, Old Fable of the Frog and the Ox (item 847), which is signed IC.

OF THE DUCHESS'S

Jany. 4, 1792. Fores. Small (5I/2X8 in.) Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8055. A hideous caricature of the Duchess and her celebrated foot. [336] EXCISEMAN

(THE)

[341] or buying up and burning shame. April 1809. J. Johnston. Unsigned. [G. and/or I. Cruikshank] BM 11313. Reid 72. Perceval (Mr. Deceiveall) puts money bags into Mrs. Clarke's bag. A man shovels books into a large fire in Clarke's printing office, EXTERMINATION

(THE) .

April 20, 1808. R. H. Laurie. A droll. 488. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11199.

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cheered on by the Duke of York, in regimentals.

COMIC N E W P A N T O M I M E CALLED HARLEQUIN AND M O T H E R GOOSE, or the Golden Egg, now per-

forming at Covent Garden. Colored frontispiece by I.C. aided by GC. [Book] 12mo. Pp. 1-36. London. John Fair-

[341a] FACING T H E

ENEMY.

(If there is an original sketch by IC for this subject [see item 342], the print is obviously drawn by Woodward, who may conceivably have accepted IC's suggestion and had George etch from his design.) [342] • F A C I N G T H E ENEMY

[Oct. 1, 1803, added in ink.] Ackermann. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank S. BM 10046. Reid 8: "Etched by ICk, not any by me. G.Ck." Wheeler & Broadley v. 1 (reproduced opp. p. 69); also Broadley 2, list no. 918 (Latta coll.) I.C. sc. P.U.M.C.: Cruik. IE 2650. Said to be an early work of the younger Cruikshank from a sketch by his father. A fierce John Bull, in uniform, and his bulldog face a dilapidated Frenchman, in tattered uniform, and a chicken. John thinks the Frenchman should be fed before he fights him. T h e Frenchman says, "Begar me no like de look of dat Jean Bool." This is one of a number of prints backing up the Volunteers. [343] FAIR AT WISHBOURNE GREEN

(A) .

Mar. 26, 1808. Fores. E Delaney del. [I.] Cruikshank sculpt. BM 11270. A woman in a swamp, fallen from a roundabout, appeals to men to help her. A satire on the acquittal of the Duke of York. Mrs. Clarke lived at Westbourne Place. [344] FAIR STROLLERS O F TIVERTON

(THE) .

[PIC] No data on size, publisher, date, place, pages, illus. (See [Chapbooks] Five bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 765b. [345] or High-Flying Mail for 1810. Frontispiece (colored) of the Mail Coach: "Cruikshank del." [Book] 12mo, 34 pp. (Chubbock says 44 pp.) London, John Fairburn. 1810. Chubbock, p. 8, no. 52: "By GC probably assisted by IC." Chubbock adds to the title: "Dedicated to every High-Flying Dashing MailCoach W h i p and Gentleman Jarvis." Cohn, 278: "Probably by Isaac and Geo." FAIRBURN'S

DASHING

SONGSTER,

FAIRBURN'S

DESCRIPTION

[346] OF

THE

POPULAR

AND

burn.

(1806.)

Chubbock, p. 5, No. 30. P.U.M.C.: Cruik 1806. Cohn 280: Second edition "as performed at Covent Garden," same date. This edition is said to be of the greatest rarity—no copy in the Bruton or Wright collections. Reid 4598. Douglas 315. Some Cruikshank authorities regard it as the joint work of Isaac and George; some, as the earliest book illustration by George. Mr. Simmons plays the role of Mother Goose. [347] FAIRBURN'S EDITION O F T H E FUNERAL O F ADMIRAL LORD NELSON . . . at St. Paul's Cathedral on

Thursday January 9th 1806. Embellished with an engraved frontispiece of the Funeral Car and Procession to St. Paul's. Frontisp. (large folding) by [PI. a n d / o r G. Cruikshank]. [Book] 8vo. London. J o h n Fairburn. N.d. [1806] Pp. 73-106. Blue paper printed wrapper. Cohn 284. On the outside of the back cover, the work is given as a third part of Fairburn's Life and Death of Nelson, but is complete in itself and issued separately. [348] FAIRBURN'S EDITION O F T H E W H O L E PROCEDURE O F T H E ELECTION O F WESTMINSTER IN T H E PALACE YARD. April 17, 1810. Containing a letter to Sir

Francis Burdett. A Copy of the Warrant of the Speaker, the Rt. Hon. Charles Abbott, for the commitment of Sir Francis Burdett to the Tower, accompanied by a caricature of the former entitled " T h e little man in the Big Wig." (Vide Fuller's Earth Reanimated.) George and Isaac Cruikshank sc.] Reid 103. Chapbook] J. Fairburn. 1810. (iv) 1-26 pp., with a colored vignette. [349] FAIRBURN'S LAUGHABLE SONCSTER, or Heigh Cockolorum Jig for 1807, being an excellent collection of laughable, . . . songs, 8cc. [?G and IC] Colored frontispiece (Punch and Judy) and a colored vignette (Grimaldi) on title page. Unsigned. [Book] 12mo, pp. 1-48. London, John Fairburn. [1807] Chubbock, p. 5, no. 35: "Front, prob. by G. and I.C." Cohn 289 gives a different subject ("Laugh like me: Ha! Ha! Ha!!") and states that he has never traced a complete copy of this second edition.

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[350]

OT John Bull's last effort to oblige his false friends. July 17, 1794. Fores. Unsigned, pi. Cruikshank] BM 8477. A bull, charging a French fort, calls on his allies to make a brave push, but they—Dutch, Prussians, Charles IV, Francis II and M a c k all turn their backs and make off. FAITH O F TREATIES E X E M P L I F I E D

(THE) ,

[351]

: or Virtue and Vice, accurately delineated. IC, engraved frontispiece and woodcuts. [Book] 12mo. 1804. Cohn sale cat., no. 823b. FAITHFUL CONTRAST

(THE)

[357] , or Prince Bladduds man traps!! May 11, 1799. Fores. Unsigned, p. Cruikshank] BM 9382. T h e Prince of Wales leaning over Miss Gubbins' shoulder and the Duke of York, in uniform, at cards with three other ladies. • F A M I L Y PARTY ( T H E )

F A M I L Y SECRETS!!

[358]

Oct. 12, 1797. Fores. Caries., 8, 41. Woodward delin. Cruikshanks sculp*. BM 9108. A series of persons discuss such topics as family scandal and a horse doctor's secret remedies.

[352]

FAKENHAM GHOST ( T H E ) . B Y ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. 15th July, 1805. Laurie & Whittle. Head-

ing to 2 printed verses. 5 ^ x 7 1 4 in. (Broadside, 13x9s/8 in.) A droll. 397. Unsigned. piC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10506. T h e story tells of a woman, walking after dark from Euston Park to Fakenham, who was followed by a monster, which proved to be an ass's foal. She is depicted fleeing from this supposed monster. [353] FALSE LIBERTY R E J E C T E D or fraternizing 8c equalizing principles discarded. March 7, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8311. Fox and Sheridan are imploring the Prince of Wales, who turns from them. The Prince, wanting to be reconciled with the King, is welcomed by him like the Prodigal Son. [354] FALSTAFF ALIVE AGAIN; or, a choice Collection of Jests. By a Member of Comus's Court. Frontispiece by IC. [Book] 8vo. [No pub.] Pp. [3]-70. London. 1794. Chubbock, p. 2, no. 9. [355] F A M I L Y J A R (A) . Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Orig. drawing signed by Isaac Cruikshank. A proof sketch for the printer. 8s/8x77/8 in. Woodin sale cat., session 2, part 2, p. 68, item 247.5. A man and wife are pulling each other's hair. The food on the table and an infant in its chair have both been thrown to the floor. • F A M I L Y PARTY

but Henry Addington wanting to retire a little. A plan of Quiberon Bay hangs on the wall.

[359]

•FANCY SKETCH, TO T H E M E M O R Y OF SHAKESPEARE (A).

February 18, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 66 [p. 155]. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM does not list this plate. Falstaff, Ariel and other characters in Shakespeare's plays pay homage to his bust. [360] or Olympic Song Book of Comic and other Songs . . . written by G. Male. Colored frontispiece signed "Cruikshank del." [Book] 8vo. Pp. 7-32. London, T. Hughes. 1811. Cohn (308) : "The Douglas copy was inscribed 'By Me, G. Ck., assisted by my Father in the face and hands.' " FANCY'S

MEDLEY,

[361]

•FARMER GEORGE DELIVER'D O F A MOST GRIEVOUS S H [SPEECH] WITH T H E CRUELTY O F THE GOSSOPS.

Jany 23, 1787. Fores. [IC] Poll Pitt delint. Executed by Sal Fo-x. BM 7131 names no artist. King George, being given smelling salts behind the screen, says, "Oh my S — h . " A baby, the Farmer's s h, is being pulled one way by Pitt, Richmond and Dundas, the other way by Fox, Burke and Sheridan.

[362] or news from London [Town], July 21st, 1794. R. Laurie 8c J . Whittle. No. 121. Caries., 2, 141. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 8583. A.S.W.R., p. 212. A well-dressed farmer sits, surrounded by intent listeners, with his pretty wife and two

FARMER'S RETURN

[356]

(THE) .

Feby. 20, 1801. Fores. Unsigned. [Williams] BM 9708. [?I. Cruikshank sc.] Pitt, Dundas and three others at cards, all

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(THE)

children. A yokel, who is spilling his beer, and three others complete the audience. [363] •FARO'S DAUGHTERS, or the Kenyonian blow up to gamblers. May 16, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8879. In Phila. Free Library (Joseph Carson collection). Mrs. Sturt, Lady Archer and Mrs. Concannon in pillories, Fox in stocks beneath Mrs. Concannon. Lord Kenyon kneels before a fire of burning playing cards, dice boxes and card tables. [364] FATAL MARRIAGE (THE) , or Dangers of Precipitancy. Exemplified in the Melancholy Story of Blanche and Henriquez. Engraved frontispiece. Cruikshank delin. [Book] 16mo. London. Tegg and Castleman. [1803] This is the first edition to have this plate. J . B. Townsend collection.

FIGURE OF A WOMAN.

[?1797]. [IC] The P.U.M.C. drawing (Cruik IE 2735) is inscribed, "By my Father Isaac Cruikshank. G. Ck." An attractive, athletic young woman is drawn striding vigorously forward. The back of the paper is covered by a design, resembling a modern abstraction, of small circles and curlicues. [370]

FINISHING TOUCH

(THE) .

Laurie & Whittle. 13 Oct, 1794. 127. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank del.] BM 8586 states that L&W's no. 127 title continues "of an Impure's Face." A pretty young woman being made up before a mirror. FIRST

[365]

ARTICLES

IN

[371]

REQUISITION

AT

AMSTERDAM

or the Sans Culotts [sic] become Touts Culotts. Jun. 29, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [IC] Houghton Library (Harvard). BM 8613. A sequel to "The Coalition," q.v. A Frenchman shakes coins from a Dutchman's breeches, who stands with bare legs, bewailing his "dollors [sic] and ducats." Other Frenchmen despoil other Dutchmen.

FAVORITE GUINEA PIGS GOING TO MARKET.

July 27, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8668. A satire on the tax on hair powder. Pitt and George III as drover and farmer, and the Queen as the farmer's ugly wife. [366] FEMALE MEETING (A) , on the subject of invasion! Mrs. Bull in the chair. Written and designed by G. M. Woodward. Sep. 12, 1803. M. McAllen. Woodward del. Cruikshank Sp. BM 10096. Broadley 2, p. 311, no. 337. Mrs. Bull asks for suggestions in case of invasion, and is answered by a gossip, a fishwife, a shopkeeper, a washwoman and others. Another morale-booster against the threat of invasion. [367]

[372]

Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC?] An original drawing, "signed with initials," except for an unknown two of the thirteen in this group. From the Woodin sale cat., item 249.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). lOi/gxlSs^ in. Cartoon of the situation in France at the time Napoleon was made Emperor. FIRST COURT DAY OF THE NEW EMPEROR.

•FEMALE OPINIONS ON MILITARY TACTICS.

[373] , or the presentation of the Prusian [sic] pearl. Dec. 10, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7927. (See BM 7931.) The Duke of York shows the King and the Queen, who are standing on chairs, his new jewel. They are delighted with the promise of wealth. The princesses and ladies show pleased surprise. One holds up a fat child to see the show, who is probably the Princess Amelia, aged eight.

Sept. 30, 1790. Fores. Caries., 8, 36. [PWoodward del.] IC. BM 9314. Eight groups (a man in uniform and a woman in each group) with novel questions and answers. [368] •FIELD PREACHER

[369] An original pencil sketch

(THE) .

Octr. 12, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 58, p. 131. Unsigned. [Woodward del.] [Cruikshank sc.] BM 9122. Lettering as in "The Polite Preacher," q.v. A tousled preacher, in a black suit, leans over a reading desk, shouting "You'll all go to the Devil II" 67

FIRST INTERVIEW

(THE)

FIRST INTERVIEW

(THE)

[374] , or the presentation of

the Prusian [sic] pearl. Dec. 10, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7931. Another version of the preceding item. T h e figure of the Duke of York is reversed. The Queen is now seated, the King looking on through a spyglass. The fat child has been left out of the picture. [375] or, a meeting of creditors. March 28, 1785. Humphey [sic]. IC [as a large monogram] Fecit. Not in BM. Fox sits with a bandaged foot on a stool, giving his creditors his word of honor that they will all be paid the next April 1. This is not in Isaac's usual style, though Fox's features are like IC's Fox. The large monogram signature is unusual. •FIRST

OF

APRIL

[»761 or the finger post. With the humorous song of Ti-Tum-Tu. Septr. 20. 1806. Laurie & Whittle; A droll, 440. Verses sung by Mr. Liston in Mr. T . Dibdin's popular Comedy. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10684. A satire on Quakers' concupiscence. The Quaker stands primly beside a Quakeress, who points seductively toward a grove five miles off. He, having been "discomfited" by another suitor, ends his song, "And kicked me Ruthlessly Behind with lus Toe Turn T i . " FIVE MILES

OFF,

[377] •FLANNEL COLD [sic]

COATS O F

MAIL

AGAINST T H E

FRENC

or the British ladies patriotic presents to the Army. Novr. 25, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8349. Ladies using petticoats and other flannel articles to dress soldiers for protection against the cold. t378]

, . or Sans Culotte s in Possession. (See photostats that I had made from Mr. Sessler's original.) Signed ICk. An original watercolor. Title inscribed in ink on lower margin. See also R. W. Meirs' catalogue, 235. A band of French republican soldiers raiding the market and gnawing at the beef. Officers and more soldiers approach with a flag: "La gloire du République." F L E E T M A R K E T EVACUATED

[380] • F L I G H T ACROSS T H E HERRING POOL

[381] T h e title is written in ink on the back in an old hand, but not IC's. An original watercolor, in gray. . Cruikshanks Senr delt. no. 261.] he figures of the two dancing a hornpipe(?) are touched up as if for reproduction (e.g., the man's cheek and the girl's features). Seven others and a dog comprise the usual background. A three-master, suspended from the ceiling, suggests one of the dancers' occupation. [ • F L O W I N G CAN

Sept. [I. A wife,

(THE)]

?

[382] FOGGY

WEATHER.

Laurie 8c Whittle. Dec. 22, 1794. 144. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8591. A stout lady bumps into a fat parson, while a rider urges his horse on through the fog and a pedestrian walks into a pond. [383]

or more carraway comfits for Mary Ann. Se$ Mrs. Clarke's The Rival Princes. June 20, 1810. Fores. Unsigned. [I. and G. Cruikshank] BM 11565. Cohn (1117) J : "Some little work by G.C., chiefly by IC." Reid 109. Relates to Mrs. Clarke's book on the dukes of York and Cumberland. Lord Folkestone had had an affair with Mrs. Clarke. Fores' bookshop on the corner of Sackville St. and Piccadilly is shown with some accuracy—the door with a fanlight at the corner, shop windows displaying books and prints on both fronts, and at a counter inside. Fores (?) seated reading. John Bull, standing at the door, says: " I suppose we shall have a new edition of Yorkshire cakes" alluding to Mrs. Clarke's previous affair with the Duke of York. Lord Folkestone, looking out of the window, curses "The Strawberries and the poison." FOLKESTONE

STRAWBERRIES

[384]

[379] F L E S H AND T H E SPIRIT

(A) .

June 20, 1800. Fores. IC. BM 9543. The copy in the Cohn sale cat. was said to be inscribed by GC as being a caricature by IC. Pitt and Dundas encourage the flight of Irish MPs across the Irish channel. They fly from the roof of the Irish Parliament House toward the many positions that Pitt's budget offers.

F O L L Y O F AN OLD MAN MARRYING A YOUNG W I F E .

(THE) .

[L. 8c W., 59.] [?ca. 1793.] Caries., 2, 126. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8407. A young woman distracts her husband, while

26, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. Cruikshank] BM 8525. fat man, seated at dinner, gazes at his who stands upbraiding him.

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a young man in his shirt, carrying his clothes, slips out of the room.

I.C. (The / is like/, as it was often printed) BM 6392: [PCruikshank], An angel unmasks a devil whose mask has Fox's features. Minute demons fly out of a fire in the background, one intended for Burke, the other for North (?).

[385] FOOL AND HIS M O N E Y S SOON PARTED

(A) . [ L . &

W., 58?] [?ca. 1793] Imprint cut off. Four lines of verse below the design. Caries., 2, 129. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8406. A stout man sits drinking with a courtesan, while his pocket is being picked.

[391] [?Apr.] 1784. Published according to Act of Parliament. N o publisher given. 7x93^ in. IC. BM 6496. Fox, half clad, lies on straw, with a crown of straw. His friend Sam (House) says, "Ah poor Charley I thought it would come to this." •FOX

[386] FOREST O F BONDY.

[PIC]

[Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Six bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 768d. INTRODUCTION

TO AN

ASSEMBLY

[392] May 1, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8388. Couples parading include the Prince of Wales between Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Duchess of York, Lady Charlotte Campbell, Mrs. Hobart and Lady Archer, Col. Hanger and Lady Cecilia Johnston. T h e day's fashion gave an effect of pregnancy, emphasized by pads, and with the bosom often completely exposed. [393] • F R A N K H A Y M A N ; a tale; written by John Taylor, etc. 200th February 1798, Laurie & Whittle. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] BM 9333 names no artist. "Cruikshank" written on edge of plate in a contemporary hand. Included as an IC by Spencer in 1922. Reid 823. Not in Douglas. Not typical of IC's work of 1798. Forty printed verses, intended for recitation, describe Hayman's amusement at a dog mangling a dead hare while the porter slept, only to find that the hare had been sent to him as a delicacy.

(A) .

April 1, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 89 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9151. An elderly fop is introduced to a lady, who along with two others has the headgear with high feathers typical of the period. [388] FORTNIGHT'S RAMBLE THROUGH LONDON

(A) ,

or

A Complete Display of all the Cheats and Frauds practiced in that great metropolis, with the best Methods for eluding them. Being a true and pleasing Narrative of the Adventures of a Farmer's Son, Published at his request, for the benefit of his Country. Etched frontispiece and title vignette by I. Cruikshanks. [Book] Cr. 8vo. J. Roach. 1792. On the frontispiece of the Widener copy of this edition, GC has written, "Engraved from a drawing by my Father, I. Ck., G. Ck." This copy came from the T r u m a n library. Cohn's sale cat., item 815, p. 119. A.S.W.R., p. 209. There is also another edition, with different frontispiece, Dean fc Mundy, n.d., 12mo. [389] . Songhead written and sung by Mr. Emery. Laurie & Whittle, Mar. 10, 1807. Unsigned. A droll. 460. [PI. Cruikshank] Cohn (1121) : "A good etching by G.C." BM 1094 names no artist. Printed verses relate a countryman's experiences in London, in a (supposedly) Yorkshire dialect. FORTY

THIEVES

[394] ( T H E ) , or the mare foal'd of her folly. Aug. 18 [P1789]. Fores. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] BM 7552. A procession of the Corporation of Rochester, with asses' heads, the names of several indicated, e.g. Sp ce (for Spence). Behind them are trades people clamoring for justice at the Assizes. FREEMEN TRIUMPHANT

(THE)

[390] FOUL FIEND DISCOVERED or the guardian angel of Britain unmasking the Devil. [Ca. Jan.] 1784. No pub.

BEDLAM

• F R A I L T I E S O F FASHION.

[387] •FORMAL

IN

[395] • F R E N C H BUCABO FRICHTENING T H E ROYAL COMMANDERS ( T H E ) .

April 14, 1797. Fores. IC (cut on plate below the design). BM 9005. Broadley 1, 101: "IC's second caricature of Napoleon" (reproduced opp. 101) ; 2, 312, no. 359. Ashton (p. 39) thought this was the

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earliest English caricature of Napoleon; but see "Buonaparte at Rome" (pub. Mar. 12, 1797). A horrible-looking caricature, with "Buonaarte" on his cap sits astride a dragon, which reathes out a smoky cloud of soldiers, guns and demons. T h e Archduke Charles and the Duke of York r u n off terrified. T h e worried Pope, prostrate beneath the monster, complains that this rebel son of his pays him no homage whathever [sic]." In the sky a smiling Fox, as a winged head" sprouting horns calls to them and their generals to run. Most of them had been defeated in the Italian campaign. Peace was signed April 18. [396]

E

•FRENCH CHARGE.

GENERALS

RECEIVING

AN

ENGLISH

p . and G. Ck.] BM 11322: "[1. Cruikshank with a little work by G.C.]." Cohn: "Some little work by G.C. Chiefly by I. Ck." Broadley 1 (reproduced) opp. p. 291), 298. Reid 76. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2478. Napoleon, Talleyrand and other French officers critically scrutinizing English caricatures {charges in French), several of which can be recognized. According to some authorities, this attack on the Duke of York is not altogether based on the true facts. [397] •FRENCH

HAPPINESS—ENGLISH

MISERY.

Jany 13, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8288. In the first compartment, four emaciated Frenchmen are sharing a frog; in second compartment, four robust Englishmen at a hearty meal. Even the dog and cat under the table are fat. " T o those who give them away £1 l i s 6d Per Hundred Plain, and £3 3s Od in Colours." This is an interesting use of satire sheets in 18thcentury propaganda. [398] FRIENDS O F T H E P E O P L E

(THE) .

Nov. 15 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8131. Dr. Priestley directs a dark lantern at Paine and a tray of phosphorus. Paine, sitting on a barrel of gunpowder, is surrounded by numerous weapons. Behind them squats a devil with huge bat wings. Pamphlets and volumes of incendiary nature are piled high. [399] FRITH KING.

THE

MADMAN

HURLING TREASON

AT

catured) is restrained by a Bow Street officer and the Prince of Wales from throwing stones at him. A woman (Fox) and a sailor (Sheridan) lament. On January 21, J o h n Frith, an insane half-pay lieutenant, had thrown a rock at the coach. [400] •FRONTISPIECE.

Febr. 12, 1803. Tegg 8c Castleman. 6x6y4 in. Unsigned. [al. Cruikshank] Not found in BM list. T h e book that this illustrates has not been identified. A speaker, standing on his chair with hammer in hand, points to a picture of T o m Paine on the wall. Another of George III is covered by a black wreath. Armed agents are forcing the door. [400a] FRONTISPIECE T O A DICTIONARY CANT—THE BEGGAR'S CARNIVAL.

SLANG

AND

Cruikshank del. See Reid (55), description of a large room full of twenty-one guests (fighting, drinking, dancing, sporting, etc.). [401] • F R O N T I S P I E C E TO BURKE'S R E F L E C T I O N S ON

THE

At the top is written in ink: "Reflections on the French Revolution. (Frontispiece) in an unknown contemporary hand. Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. IC. An original pencil sketch, colored, "signed by the artist." Ca. 1790. Burke, touched on the top of his head by a flying cherub, kneels in rapture before a majestic female (Marie Antoinette) standing on clouds. Cp. "Frontispiece to Reflections," item no. 3. BM's ascription of this to [?H.W.] seems unlikely in view of the original sketch of this item, signed by IC. Bought at Woodin sale 1942 (item 184.3, p. 39, Parke-Bernet Gall., 10i/ 2 xll in. F R E N C H REVOLUTION.

[402] •FRONTISPIECE

TO

ECCENTRIC

EXCURSIONS.

Con-

trasted sketches of Mirth 8c Ennui. Aug. 1, 1790 [1796]. Allen 8c Co. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8920 lists Allen 8c West as publishers and 1796 as date. (In my copy O has been changed to 6 in ink.) T w o men (half-length figures), one robust, the other thin, represent Mirth and Ennui.

THE

Jan. 31, 1790. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7624. As the King passes in his coach, Burke (cari-

OF

[403] FRONTISPIECE REVOLUTION.

TO

REFLECTIONS

ON

THE

Novemr the 2, 1790. Willm Holland.

70

FRENCH

[IC del. et sc.] BM 7675 names as artist [?H.W.]; but the evidence that Isaac etched as well as drew this sketch is much stronger. Beneath the title is etched in italics: " I t is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Q u e e n of France . . . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped f r o m their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.—But the age of Chivalry is gone." N o n e of this appears on the original sketch. T h e kneeling B u r k e gazes ecstatically at a vision of Marie Antoinette, who stands u p o n clouds, crowned a n d irradiated, wearing Greek draperies. A c h e r u b flies above holding a fireb r a n d to Burke's head. Burke had been so deeply impressed by his sight of the brilliant Q u e e n in 1774 that he dramatically contrasted it with her situation in 1790, when the changes of the R e v o l u t i o n were already oppressing her. W h e n his "Reflections" was published, late in 1790, it had a great a n d rapid success—eleven editions in a little over one year. T h e new view t h a t it gave of the causes a n d significance of the Revolution was a m a j o r factor in raising Burke's position in English public life f r o m an o f t e n somewhat despised visionary to that of a far-seeing statesman, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party. [404] [FRONTISPIECE

TO

THE

IMPOSTOR

UNMASKED]

A

(folding) plate f r o m a book of the same name. [ T i p p e r and R i c h a r d s publishers, ca. 1806] [I.] Cruikshank del. BM 10620. Reid 17. P.U.M.C.: IE 2361. Sheridan speaking to a m o b before the Westminster election has a n unfavorable reception. T h e y i m p o r t u n e h i m about his private accounts a n d his "checks" being worthless. [405] FRONTISPIECE:

THE

JOURNEY

TO T H E

MOON,

or

M u n c h a u s e n o n M a h o m e t ' s ass. (Frontispiece to " M u n c h a u s e n at Walcheren," q.v.) [I.] Cruikshank del. BM 11389: [I. Cruikshank]. Reid 50. C o h n 581. Cp. " M u n c h a u s e n in Flushing," B M 11393. M u n c h a u s e n , as a M o h a m m e d a n blindfolded, rides a winged ass. T h e full moon grins. TO

THE

SONGSTER'S

MULTUM

[407] FRONTISPIECE

TO

THE

TRIAL

OF

JOHN

BULL!!

N o pub. [ca. M a y - J u n e 1803] PFrom a book. ICk. BM 10003. Napoleon and J o h n Bull face each other across the water the latter holding out a paper on seizing contraband inscribed " H o n o r , Justice Necessity." [408] From Savillon's Elegies, q.v. 1795. [I.] Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B Reading sculp. Engraved beneath the imprint, a four-line stanza. •FRONTISPIECE, VIEW O F HARROW SCHOOL.

[409] [•FRONTISPIECE, MERRIMENT.]

WITHOUT

TITLE,

TO

MIDNIGHT

1803. M. Allen. I Ck (on hood of fireplace). BM 10492: July 1 18051. Reid 5231. Cohn (556): "Frontispiece signed I Ck." [410] FRUITION OF NANTES

(THE), or the vision inter-

preted. "Performance" (engraved near top of p l a t e ) . Cp. "Rehearsal" on " T h e Vision of Nantes" (item 1276). July 15, 1791. Fores. [I] Cruikshank. BM 7891. See also " T h e Vision of Nantes. Rehearsal," item 1276. Five British sailors attacking six French. [411] • F U L L AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT O F T H E TRIAL O F NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE BEFORE J O H N BULL

(A) . A broadside in two columns (20x14) i n . ) , (plate 6i/ 2 xl0i/ 2 in.) Sepr. 14, 1803. Ackermann. Woodward del. Cruikshank s. BM 10099. Spencer 1929. Ashton, p. 20. Broadley 2, p. 313, no. 376. J o h n Bull sits at a table above the counsel facing a poor portrayal of Napoleon in the prisoner's box. T h e devil in legal costume is seated as the devil's advocate. Napoleon is charged with the massacres at T o u l o n a n d Jaffa, stealing a regiment of King George's horses, etc. A grim English seaman testifies

[406] [FRONTISPIECE,

31 Mar. 1810), each with f o u r plates. Reid 4501. Cohn 763. A bull flings a m a n and broken crockery through a shop window. T h e bull's head is seen in the window; his hind quarters are visible through an open door. " T h e poor little fat m a n flew u p like a d a r t , / And down he came p l u m p in a scavenger's cart,/ W i t h his right leg, left leg, u p p e r leg, u n d e r leg,/ Patrick's Day in the m o r n i n g . "

IN

PARVO, OR, NEW POCKET C O M P A N I O N , ETC. V o l . 1.

1808. F a i r b u r n ] Frontispiece and 10 plates (2y g x 2i/ 8 in.) [I. a n d / o r G.] Cruikshank del. Grainger scu. BM 11191. T h e book, in six volumes, was issued in seventy-two weekly n u m b e r s (19 Nov. 180871

that he towed "Little Boney" into Brighton. The devil resigns his brief. John sentences Napoleon to be shown three months in an iron cage, then transported to Ajaccio for three months, then to the mines of Mexico.

the whole House. June 16. 18. 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11339. Reid 77. He had been committed to prison three months earlier, for lying about his letter to Mrs. Clarke. He appears comfortably seated before an open fire, a carpet on the floor. Two letters to Mrs. Clarke, and a long extract from his examinations in September and November 1804, are in evidence.

[412] or the national troops attachment to their general after their defeat at Tournay. May 12, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. Cruikshank] BM 8085. neral Dillon being murdered by French soldiers. •GALIC

[SIC]

PERFIDY,

[418] •GENERAL FAST.

May 4, 1796. Fores. GMW [Woodward del.] IC [Cruikshank f.] BM 8801. Everitt, p. 11, reproduced. There are two forms of " I C " on this plate. Both, and also the "GMW," are very small. Grego, 1, 328, attributed this wrongly to Rowlandson. A lugubrious, meagre old soldier (huge head and eyes, twisted mouth and long hair) is described in a stanza of four lines as always most handy to be called to his post.

[413] GALLANT NELLSON [ s i c ] BRINGING HOME TWO UNCOMMON FIERCE FRENCH CROCODILES FROM THE NILE AS A PRESENT TO THE KING.

Oct. 7, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9251. The crocodiles have the heads of Fox and Sheridan. [414] •GALLERY OF FASHION

(THE) .

[419]

March 23, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8905 names no artist, but the drawing suggests that it is by IC. Five women, full length, exhibit the fashion "a la Turk," "a la grec," "a la Cité," "a la St. James," "a la St. Giles."

GENERAL

IN CONSEQUENCE

OF

THE

WARL!

(A). Two compartments. Febry 14 [? 1794]. Fores. I. Cruikshanks Del. BM 8428. In the upper compartment: "Lambeth," a fat parson and two ladies guzzle. In the lower: "Spital Fields," a poor weaver's family are seen starving.

[415]

A CUt down or Coatzwarrow. Sep. 1, 1791. Fores. Cruikshanks 1791. BM 8039. The title points to three of the fashions of the day, illustrated by three dandies. A gallows (braces) keeps the breeches suspended from the clavicle. "Coatzwarrow" refers to a musician of that name, who hanged himself that same month. [416] GALVANISM, or the miraculous recovery of the unfotunate [sic] Miss Baily. A song heading to [engraved] verses. Jany 28th 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 456. Cruikshank del. BM 10938: [G. or I. Cruikshank d e l j Reid 4490. Douglas 1803. Cohn (1144): "Probably the work chiefly of Isaac." P.U.M.C.: p. 3576 Cruik E 2424. The lady sits on the bed, with a garter around her neck. The servant who had found her hanging had revived her with bellows. He had fetdied the object of her affections, whom he threatened with a cudgel into marrying her.

GALLOWS

FAST

(A) . A HANGING COLLAR.

[420] GENERAL MACK: SCAMPERING BACKI

Jan: 29, 1799. Fores. [1. Cruikshank] BM 9342. Mack, wearing a tall cap with skull and bones and a huge ostrich feather, gallops away, grimacing in terror, with French soldiers at his heels. A satire on his flight from Rome, December 1798, with his Neapolitan soldiers. [421] •GEN. SWALLOW DESTROYING THE FRENCH ARMY,

talk of Gulliver carrying off fifty ships at once, why it was nothing to him! June. 1. 1799. Fores. IC (engraved close to the imprint). BM 9392. Suvaroff, a gigantic figure with a fork in each hand, is spearing the running French soldiers, as he chews five of them and also a horse. [422] GENERAL SWARROW, TOWING THE FRENCH DIRECTORY INTO RUSSIA!!

May 16, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9387. Houghton Library (Harvard).

GENERAL CLAVERING w l i o was committed to Newgate by the Honble the House of Commons, for gross prevarication before a committee of

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Suvaroff leads the five despairing Directors by ropes around their necks. The Russian, smoking a pipe and carrying pistols in his belt, bears skull and bones on his fur cap and uniform. A satire on the French defeats in Italy the previous month.

Around the coffin of Leopold II, who died on March I, stand six Frenchmen, including Artois and Monsieur, Calonne, Vaudreuil and Gramont, bewailing their misfortune. [429] •GETTING

[423] •GENEROUS CUSTOMER

(A) .

OF

THE

DUCHESS'S

[430]

( T H E ) . Heading to song Written by Mr. C. Dibdin Jun. 23d January, 1809. Laurie 8c Whittle. Unsigned. A droll. 505. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11520. The copy in the Cohn sale catalogue was autographed by GC as being "From a Drawing by my Father, I. Cruikshank." A student in cap and gown holds up a bit of food that has the head of Napoleon (Emperor Scrag). [431] GHOST OF A VILLAGE L A W Y E R . Fores. June 4, 1799. No. 1 of a series of Familiar Ghosts. Caries., 8, 7. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9470. The lawyer greets Tom, but the yokel fends him off with a pitchfork, not fearing a ha [sic] warrant. [432] •GHOST OF BUONAPARTE ( T H E ) appearing to the Directory!!! Jan. 1, 1799. Fores. ICk. BM 9336. Broadley 1, 125, (reproduced opp. p. 122) speaks of "a very faint resemblance to B." (too faint to be perceived!). The Ghost (not a portrait of Buonaparte) waving a sword, terrifies the five members of the Directorate, who plan to be rid of him by sending him to Egypt. He accuses them of sending him to die by the hand of a Mussulman assassin—"May the name of Nelson ever haunt you." Nelson had isolated Napoleon and his army in Egypt by destroying the French fleet at the Battle of Aboukir, August 7, 1798. GHOST OF A SCRAG OF MUTTON

or the royal warriors defeated. Dec. 21, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8143. France, a comely young woman in a Phrygian cap, stops an ass which carries several of the princes of Europe. Under its feet lies Louis XVI, the ass excreting into his mouth. Other monarchs are struggling to keep seated on a second ass. The insane Queen of Portugal sits on the ground tearing her hair. This cartoon, which favors the French revolutionaries, satirizes the reverses of the Allies. [425] •GENTLE MEASURES, or voluntary confessions. Sepr. 1st, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9242. Pitt scourges Fox, who is stripped to the waist with hands bound to a pike. Sheridan, with wrists also bound, cringes. Fox had moved a resolution on June 22 against scourging and other coercive measures in Ireland. [426] THE EARTH

LADYS

[SIC]

N[ov.] 25, 1791. Fores. IC. BM 7921. , The diminutive Duchess of York sits with bare feet, while the large Mrs. Jefferies cannot even get her big toe in the Duchess' slipper. Lady Cecilia Johnston, Mrs. Hobart, Mrs. Gamon and Lady Archer have similar troubles with the Duchess' clothes.

GENIUS OF FRANCE ( T H E ) EXTIRPATING DESPOTISM TYRANNY Sc OPPRESSION FROM T H E FACE OF

AND

LENGH

FOOT.

Jan. 14, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc: PI. 54, p. 127. Woodwar [sic] del. IC. sp. BM 9118. A "gold fish," with the tradesman's bill in one hand, tips him lavishly. A fierce dog with spiked collar watches him suspiciously. [424]

GENTLEMAN'S

THE

POLITE

VALENTINE

WRITER.

Colored frontispiece by IC. [Book] 12mo. London. No pub. [1808] Chubbock p. 6, no. 37. [427]

THF. GENUINE WORKS OF FLAVIUS J O S E P H U S ,

With

life and notes. Whiston's Translation. Illustrated by IC. [Books] 2 vols. 4to. J. Cundee (1805/6). Chubbock, p. 5, no. 2. Cohn sale cat., 831, p. 121: "Numerous fine engravings by I.C." [428] GERMAN HOWL (A) , or the emigrant princes bemoaning the loss of their dearest friend. March 15, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8068.

[433] •GHOST OF BYNG

(THE) .

March 28, 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 10974. Cohn 1158. Douglas 1247. General Whitelock, in red Army uniform. 73

flinches at the ghost. His case is compared with Byng's, who was executed for a similar error in judgment. Admiral John Byng has been proved by Tunstall (1925) and others to have been the victim of circumstances, sacrificed by a cowardly government—"One of the most coldblooded and cynical acts of judicial murder in all British history." There was no question of Byng's personal courage. T h e High Court of Admiralty had voted for the death sentence to follow the law, but then unanimously recommended mercy. T h e Government let the verdict stand, however, fearing, it was said, mob violence. T h e cartoon shows the Admiral, in Navy uniform, emerging from a cloud. His gaunt features are entirely imaginary—he was actually portly and handsome. T h e island of Minorca is indicated in a corner. Byng had been sent with a weak squadron, "too little and too late," to protect it, but withdrew to cover Gibraltar, as his own War Council had decided.

[438] ; or Mrs. Duffy and Mrs. Cruckshanks. 25th March, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. Heading to a (printed) song: Written by T . Dibdin. A droll. 386. Unsigned. [? (I.) Cruikshank] BM 10500. A soldier flees in terror from the ghosts of his wife and her rival, both with removable heads. CHOSTS

[439] , or the taylor befrited 8cc 8cc. A German story. Pub. by T o m Stitch, Thames street, Windsor. N.d. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 7740: " T h i s is the third of a set of three prints on the Windsor Corporation; the other two are signed Cruikshank, 1790." A tailor, kneeling on his shopboard, is terrified by the apparition of a corpse-like man and a pig with his throat cut. T h e devil appears below with a trident and a roll of "cabbage." Eight lines of verse are etched beneath the design.

GHOST'S

[434] GHOST O F T H E

VICARL!

•GIANT PIGMY

DOCTOR! Familiar Ghosts sketch 3d. J u n e 4, 1799. Fores. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. Not in B M list. T h e Doctor calls to ask how the patient is doing. He replies, "Been mending ever since you left us." THE

VILLAGE

(THE) .

OR T H E CLOSET SCENE IN

THE

GHOST.

[442] • G I L P I N WHIGS RETURN T O T H E I R CANDIDATE ( T H E ) .

ROCHESTER

WITHOUT

May 20 [1790]. Fores. IC (small, on plate, in right corner). BM 8270. An election print whose meaning is obscure. A postchaise gallops off to London; on another road, to Rochester, a chaise proceeds slowly. Others ride off in various directions, mostly trying to avoid beeing seen. A general election was to be held in J u n e 1790.

[437] (THE)

OVERWHELMING

[441] A heading to five engraved verses. Jany 12, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 382. nsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] T h e BM's copy (10498) is on paper watermarked 1810, i.e., a reissue of the 1805 plate. Giles had died the day he was to have married Mary Brown. She dreams that his ghost comes to take her away.

N.p., n.d. [May 1799]. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9384. T h e Prince of Wales in bed (with Miss Gubbins); his uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, in full regimentals, appears from the clouds to warn him to reform. GHOST

(THE)

BLOCKADE!!

GILES SCROGGINS'

[436] GHOST OR SECOND WARNING

COMMERCE

Janry 27, 1807. Tegg. N i l . Wooward del. [I.] Cruikshank, sp. BM 10699. Broadley 1, (reproduced opp. p. 250). T h e giant, built of all-British products, hurls various articles of commerce at Napoleon, who from behind a fort begs not to be overwhelmed and says he will take off the Grande Blockade.

[435]

OF

(THE)

[440]

J u n e 4, 1799. Fores. No. 2 of a series of Familiar Ghosts. Caries., 8, 6. Woodward del. Crukshank [sic] sculp. B M 9471. A huge gluttonous parson reproves a farmer who no longer fears him, as a sot, thinking of the tithe pig to be given. •GHOST

(THE)

HAMLET.

May 14, 1799. Fores. IC. BM 9383. T h e Prince of Wales, dressed as Hamlet, is warned by the Duke of Cumberland, a very substantial ghost, that the Governor is about to fetch him. Miss Gubbins tries to reassure him. 74

[443]

[448]

[ • A GIPSY]

•COINC TO MEET THE JUDGE AT THE ASSIZES.

Novr. 5, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 32, p. 86. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM lacks this p r i n t . A half-length profile of a gipsy w o m a n , in tattered clothes. She has a hook nose, goatee a n d long fingernails.

Sep. 10, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 17, p. 38. Woodward del. Cruikshanks scp. BM 8946. A coach with two f o o t m e n (at the extreme right) leads the procession followed by two under-sheriffs ( m o u n t e d ) with their brands. O t h e r horsemen follow; one, losing his hat a n d wig a n d his stirrups, upsets a parson a n d an old w o m a n with a basket of fruit. A crowd of all social ranks, riding, driving, walking, are in the procession to meet the judge.

[444] •CIVE A DOC AN ILL NAME, THEY'LL HANG HIM.

May 10, 1796. Fores. IC. B \ 1 8803. Fox and Sheridan are h a n g i n g a dog with the head of Pitt, on the gallows of N a t i o n a l Support. W i n e bottles marked " N e w Duties" are tied to his feet. A dog with D u n d a s ' head runs toward E d i n b u r g h .

[449] •GOING TO OPEN THE BUDGET.

Novr. 28, 1796. Fores. Woodward del [?I. C r u i k s h a n k f.] T h i s is m u c h like Isaac's style, a n d the two worked m u c h together at this time. BM 8841 names n o engraver. Pitt steps f r o m his coach; an a n n o u n c e r calls to make way for the minister. A citizen adds, " T a k e care of your pockets."

[445] or the monster in f u l l cry. May 18, 1790. Fores. IC. BM 7647. George H a n g e r , as the monster, pursues Mrs. Jefferies, while Pitt advances to protect her. GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA

[450] GOOD EFFECTS OF CARBONIC CAS

[446] •GOD SPEED THE PLOW, or the British Cincinnatus. T i t l e repeated o n m o u n t by T e m p l e Scott. IC (in p e n c i l ) . An original colored watercolor, "signed by the artist." F r o m the W o o d i n sale, first session (1942), item no. 189.15. Pitt and c o m p a n i o n (not recognized by me) p u l l i n g the plough of "British steel," "loyalty," and " u n i t e d o p i n i o n " driven by Farmer George, who says, " T h a t [sic] right my lads pull away. W e have broke some of the stiff clods." Pitt says, "it's a f r a i d I be b u t with perseverance we shall get t h r o with it." T h e other replies, "Yes I think we shall if we c o n t i n u e to p u l l together." T h e clods of earth are marked "Assassination," " T y r a n y " [sic], " U s u r p a t i o n , " "Impiety," " p e r j u r y " (small p on two clods).

[451] GOOD JOKE

or, C o n t i n e n t a l epicures. W . H o l l a n d . April 12, 1802. Unsigned. [IC] Broadley 1, 154 ( r e p r o d u c e d ) . See original drawing of this ( W o o d i n sale cat., item 249.12, with title 'Political cartoon of Europe's dealing with T u r k e y . " I t e m 906 in my list). Alexander, Francis II a n d Frederick (Prussia) p r e p a r e to carve a large turkey t h a t has the head of the Sultan. Bonaparte, watching, says, "Give me a slice" a d d i n g slyly, " I a m very f o n d of T u r k e y . " TO

CUT

UP

(A) .

Isaac Cruikshank. 1799. Cr. M o m u s p. 18. N o t f o u n d in BM list. A country parson, having imbibed plentifully, was m o u n t e d on his horse facing the horse's tail. T h e horse went quietly home, the parson fell asleep. O n arrival, he was berated by his wife, w h o was told to hold her tongue: " N o t h i n g vexes me so m u c h as that the rogues have cut my horse's head off." A n example of British eighteenth-century crude humor.

[447] GOING

(THE) !!I

Deer. 10, 1807. Fores. Unsigned. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 10798. R e i d 31. Douglas 1038. A lamplighter, Winzer, a gas company promoter, sits astride a slack rope, seeing the people stricken by f u m e s f r o m his gas. W i t h his pocket stuffed by a p a p e r promising huge profit, he wishes he h a d his money in his pocket. Gas lighting of m a i n streets had been in effect long e n o u g h to start a speculative f u r o r , which this cartoon combats.

A TURKEY,

[452] GOOD NEWS FOR THE CRAVE DIGGERS.

[ A u t u m n 1803.] Williamson. IC. Broadley 2, p. 315, list no. 400. N o t listed in BM. [453] •GOWN

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METAMORPHOSED

INTO

A GHOST!!

(A) .

Effect of imagination ( T h e ) . Feb. 11, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc. PI. 60, p. 137. Woodward del. Cruikshanks s. BM 9124. A nightgown hanging suspended over a chair frightens a man holding a lantern toward it. [454] GRACES COMPARING SANDALS

(THE) .

4th July 1798. Laurie 8e Whittle. A droll. 220. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9328. A young woman (I.) at a dressing table inspects the cothurns of two others, who are lifting their draperies to expose the elaborate cross-garterings. On the right, a seated person examines two nude females. [455] •GRACES O F 1 7 9 4

[459] GRAND

July 21, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8571. Three women in extravagant costumes, very décolletée. See Sporting Magazine (IV, 228, July 1794) : "The present fashion is the most indecent ever worn in this country."

SYDENHAM

COMMON.

[460] GRANDPAPPA

IN HIS GLORY!!!

Fbry 13, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8785. George III holding the baby Princess on his knee. [461] (THE) .

September 24, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 20, p. 44. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8949. A small sailboat contains several passengers; one slices himself some meat, another uses a spyglass, two are being actively sick. [462]

O F F [SIC] T H E SLAVE

TRADE. Or leaving of sugar by degrees. April 15, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. HI. Cruikshank] BM 8081. T h e King and Queen at breakfast with the Princess Elizabeth, who says, "I cant leave of [sic] a good thing so soon." Mrs. Schwellenberg allows that she can make shift with brandy. [457] ( T H E ) or the late Ld C T M & Commodore Cur—t's paying their respects, on their return from the glorious expedition. Sepr 1809. J. Johnston [sic] Unsigned. [I. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11369. Chatham and Sir Win. Curtis apologizing to King George for the failure of the Scheldt expedition. A naval officer, Strachan, w h o watches contemptuously, was blamed for the failure in a private report to the King. GRAND DUKE O F MIDDLEBURG

• G R E A T CRY AND LITTLE

WOOL.

Dec. 22, 1783 (the 7 is reversed). Humphrys. Unsigned. [PIC sculp.] BM 6283: [Rowlandson] engraved. Spencer, from whom I bought this in 1924, thought it was by IC, and so do I, especially because of the engraving of Fox. See Grego 1, 109, who speaks of the print as "somewhat in Sayer's style." T h e devil clips hair from Fox's chest, while men dance in front of India House around a fire in which a fox is tied to a pole. [463] GREAT M A N MADE OVERSEER

(A).

Amen. Jan. 20, 1805. Williamson. ICk. Reproduced by Broadley 1, 227; also list 2, p. 315, no. 415. Napoleon stands in a pillory as dead cats and other refuse are thrown at him. Britannia at one side says, "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Above the platform are the words: "The Punishment of Murder, Perjury, Cruelty, Deceit, and Impudence." Several citizens below the platform are calling, "Old England forever, Huzza," etc.

[458] , or the doctor in danger!! T i t l e written on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.12 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). A cartoon on the Pitt administration, said to be parodying Shakespeare's play of King John. GRAND PROPOSAL

OF

June 28, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8110. T h e King and a party of officers pursue Fox, the Prince of Wales and (?) Charles Grey. Sheridan lies on the ground. T h e fugitives wear the plumed helmets of the yeomanry (their first appearance in these cartoons).

[456] (THE)

(THE)

•GRAVESEND BOAT

(THE).

GRADUAL ABOLITION

REVIEW

(THE)

[464] GREAT PLENTY AND LITTLE WASTE.

June 12th, 1794. Laurie & Whittle, 119. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8592. A buxom lady, carrying a large muff and followed by a footman with a large umbrella, is

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studied by a man with the h e l p of a "quizzing glass." [465] GREAT T E M P L E AT STOWE ( T H E ) . Title written on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. I.C. An original watercolor. From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.2. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 97/8x6 in. "A caricature portrait."

[470] or the princely repast. Deer. 8, 1789. Aitken. I.C:ft. (The IC is characteristic, large, and off the colored part of the plate.) BM 7564. Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated at a tea table, flings a cupful at the Prince of Wales, who says, "I am fool'd to the top of my bent." •GROUNDS O F F O R T U N E TELLING

[471] GULLIVER TOWING T H E F L E E T INTO

[466] publisher. Isaac Cruikshank. A colored caricature engraving. From the Woodin sale cat. p. 94, 461.5. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). [467] ( T H E ) . 1791. Printed and sold by Carington Bowles. Caries., 1, 35. 601. Mezzotint with song (engraved) beneath the title. Written and composed by Charles Dibdin. Both IC and I. Cruikshank del. Cr. Momus (p. 8 ) : Isaac Cruikshank July 11, 1791. IC appears in small lettering in the crown of the pensioner's hat, and a still smaller I. Cruikshank Del on the edge of the tablecloth. According to Douglas (1791), there was also an etching on glass with this title. An old pensioner with a wooden leg sings his song, beer mug in hand. Another, who has lost both arms, is fed his beer by a maid. (This is the Cr. Momus version, which is not a mezzotint. It is possible that the Caricatures version treats the subject differently.) •GREENWICH

PENSIONER

[472] alias the hopes of the family. March 7, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8433. T h e Duke of York, one half of his figure dressed as a bishop, with one foot in Germany, the other half as a soldier with his foot in England. Refers to the unfounded reports of his debauchery in Flanders. • H A L F SEAS OVER,

[473] H A M P S H I R E FENCIBLES PROTECTING T H E I R BACON.

Octr 20, 1794. Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8492. An officer, astride a pig, has trouble training his five men, also mounted on pigs.

[468] GRETNA GREEN.

Laurie 8c Whittle. Dec. 15, 1802. Caries., 2, 144. Unsigned. [?IC1 BM 9660. A.S.W.R., p. 214. A blacksmith, in parson's costume, stands in his smithy between an elderly and a younger couple, both wanting to get married. Beneath the design it is explained that the blacksmith tells the young woman that she can wait, and that as her grandmother seems to be impatient, he will put her fetters on first.

[474] H A P P Y EFFECTS O F T H A T GRAND SYSTOM [SIC] O F SHUTTING PORTS AGAINST T H E ENGLISH!!

Octr 1, 1808. Walker. Cruikshank. BM 11039: [I. a n d / o r G. Cruikshank] President Jefferson addresses a disgruntled audience (members of Congress) on his Embargo, which was aimed at bringing economic pressure on Britain as a retaliation against restrictive Orders in Council. Napoleon, crouching behind Jefferson, says, "You shall be King hereafter."

[469] [•GRINDER O F MUSIC

LILLIPUT!

Octr. 16, 1807. Fores. ICk. BM 10767. Broadley 1, 263f, states that on his impression GC has a note that the coast was "put in" by him. " T h e inscriptions are also clearly by him." Wright, p. 283. Cohn (1175) : "Acknowledged" by C on the T r u m a n copy. Admiral Gambier tows the Danish fleet, holding the tow ropes in his mouth. George III, on a Martello tower, watches through a spyglass. Napoleon tells the terrified Tally to stop them. A Russian, a Dutchman and German stand by, while the King of Spain throws u p his hands.

GREAT U N K N O W N ( T H E ) AND T H E GREAT CAPTAIN CUTTING UP. NAPOLEON T H E GREAT. N o date OR

(A) ] .

Novr. 5, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 34, p. 96. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8961 erroneously calls this Plate 24. An elderly bewigged gentleman turns the handle of a large music box.

[475] • H A R L E Q U I N ' S LAST SKIP.

Augt 20 1803. Williamson. I Cks. BM 10270.

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Napoleon (not a portrait) dressed as Harlequin. John Bull, with raised club, tells him he has skipped about a lot but this invasion is his last, and that he'll carry John's mark about with him as every swaggerer should. HARRY DORNTON

See Illustration for a book entitled Harry Dormon (item 519). [476]

C

HATHERLY IN J U L Y ]

ctr. 22, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PL 30 (partly erased), p. 79. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM does not have this print. Two men conversing in front of the Phoenix Inn. On the right a blacksmith's forge.

r47?J

• H E SEEMED DEEP STUDYING HIS COUNTRY S WEAL, &c." Small engraving (illustration for

Cruikshank sculp. BM 11564: [I. (and ?G.) C.]. Reid 110. Cohn 1188. Cabinet ministers and opponents indulge in many charges and countercharges, while John Bull looks on slyly from a doorway, exclaiming, "It would be better for the King and country they should all hang together." A satire on Lord Stanhope's speech on the State of the Nation, with all the cabinet ministers squabbling. [480] HEBREW PEDLAR (A) . Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor. From the Woodin sale cat., item 243.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7x9i/ s in. T h e pedler is showing a handsome string of beads to a woman outside her cottage door. [481] HELEN BERESFORD.

Frontisp. by IC. [Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday. N.d. Bound with five others. (See [Chapbooks] several bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 113, 765e and 769d. [482] H E L L IN AN UPROAR: or an express from the committee. Aprill [sic] 20, [17901. W. Fores. Isaac [Cruikshank] delin. Jacobs fecit. BM 7642: [I. R. Cruikshank], This is the only time that IR's name is found in the BM list of artists in this decade. A satire dealing with the Westminster contest. Sam House, Admiral Keppel, Lords Ashburton and Holland, and others, seated among the flames, hear of the arrangements for the election. Admiral Keppel has on his head a warship, "Lee shore," an allusion to the battle of Ushant; Lord Ashburton is seated on flames in front of a parody of his escutcheon (devils, snakes etc.); Lord Holland with a fox head and wig; one Jacobs (a Fox supporter); and Sam House a monster which head of a die, body of roulette board and dice boxes, a billiard ball for an elbow joint, and the legs and tail of a demon. [483]

a book). 5y8x3i/k in. Pub. by West and Hughes, Paternoster Row, 1800. IC. T h e men eating—the younger deep in thought, the older and fatter drinking from a bowl. [477a] •HE

TRIES

TO

AWAKEN

THE

SLEEPING

BEAUTY.

Title supplied by Grasberger. Original watercolor by Isaac Cruikshank. Small oval (6i/ 2 X7i/ 2 cm.). Artist guaranteed by George Grasberger, who also suggested the title. A beautiful young woman is asleep on a large bed, with her left arm extended over the illow. One breast is exposed; her unbraided air escapes from her cap. At the foot of the bed stands a man gesticulating. He wears a black hat, red coat and blue striped trousers, which suggest he is a sailor. Though small and but a sketch, it shows a high degree of brush control and artistic design and execution. [478] • H E WOULD B E A SOLDIER, or the history of John Bull's warlike expedition. July 1st, 1795. Fores. IC. BH 8333. Eight figures, starting with John Bull at home, ending with "loaded with honors of war" (a wreck on crutches with but one leg and one eye, and a destitute family behind him).

HENRY AND ELIZA.

Frontisp. by IC. [Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday, n.d. (See [Chapbooks] Several bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 112, item 769e. [484]

" H E WOULD B E A SOLDIER, THE SWEET W I L L Y O . "

See Royal soldier on his Majesty's service (item 1030), [479]

HEADS OF T H E NATION TION.

(THE)

HENRY AUGUSTUS MUG, A WITTY COCKNEY.

Septr. 1, 1808. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 495. Heading to verses sung by Mr. Liston, written by Geo. Colman. Unsigned.

IN A QUEER SITUA-

June 20th 1810. Fores.

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offer of a flannel petticoat to protect the loins. "I have n o loins fellow! Do you want to make a monster out of me?" T h i s is also a satire on the scanty dress sof the period.

[?I. C r u i k s h a n k del.] BM 11205. A.S.W.R., p. 216. Mr. Mug, enslaved in Africa, became " H i s black M a n d i n g o Majesty's white Minister of State." [485] HENRY

[489] or a sure way to reduce the price of grain!! Aug. 21, 1800. H i x o n . Unsigned. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 9547. R e p r o d u c e d in "Social E n g l a n d " (ed. T r a i l l , 1904, 5, 671). A Forestaller—one w h o buys food before it reaches the market—is being dragged by a r o p e a r o u n d his neck, offering his g r a i n at lower a n d lower prices as they move along. H I N T S T O FORESTALLERS,

SINCLAIR.

Frontispiece by IC. [Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday. N.d. C o h n sale cat., p. 112, item 769a. B o u n d with five others all by same publisher, a n d all frontispieces signed by IC (See [Chapbooks] Several b o u n d in one cover.) [486] • H I N T FOR AN ESCAPE AT T H E NEXT SPRING M E E T ING (A) .

[490] HISTORY O F H I G H W A Y M E N

M c h 16, 1792. Fores. IC (partly h i d d e n in the grass). BM 8071. Chifney rides the Prince of Wales, w h o finishes the race with a giant stride. Bedford, Coventry and Bullock m a k e scathing remarks. Chifney was a jockey w h o h a d been expelled f r o m the turf for his r i d i n g of the Prince's horse Escape.

(THE) .

Frontispiece by I.C. [Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday. N.d. C o h n sale cat., p. 112, 769f. (See [Chapbooks] Several b o u n d in one cover.) [491] HISTORY O F T H E W E S T M I N S T E R E L E C T I O N CONTAINING EVERY M A T E R I A L OCCURRENCE, e t c .

" N u m e r o u s Plates by Rowlandson & I. Cruikshank." [Book] 4to. P r i n t e d for the Editors, 1784. C o h n sale cat., item 828.

[487] FOR A N O T H E R STATUE (A) —or a sketch for a m o d e r n weather cock. J a n r y 2, 1804. Fores. I. Ck. BM 10221. Broadley 1, 158, reproduced opp. p. 60; also 2, 317, no. 439. W i n d h a m (not caricatured) stands o n a whirligig, with four blades m a r k e d "Pittite," " F o x i t e , " "No-ite," " T o be filled in soon." H e was u n p o p u l a r because of his opposition to the peace, a n d his a t t i t u d e toward the Volunteers, and was k n o w n as Weathercock W i n d h a m for his political changes of side. HINT

[492] HITT

AT

BACKGAMMON

Caries., 3, (22). Rowlandson del. A.S.W.R., p. 10.

(A) .

[?I.]

N.d.

Tegg.

46.

Cruikshank,

sc.

[493] •HOBBY

HORSES.

Sepr. 12th 1797. Fores. Unsigned. [Woodward del. PCruikshank sc.] BM 9107. Six groups illustrate various hobbies—sailing, acting, chasing butterflies, cats, horticulture, sculpture—with reasons given above each group.

[487a] or a R o w l a n d for your Oliver. May 20, 1801. Fores. W o o d w a r d delt. [?I.C. sc.] N o t in B M . At Phila. Free Library. ( H a m p t o n Carson collection) . T h e ignorant and p e t u l a n t magistrate says to a yokel, 'You jolter headed fellors, 111 have you inoculated for stupidity." T h e yokel beamingly replies, " T h a t would be t h r o w n away u p o n your Worship, for you seem to have h a d it in the n a t u r a l way." H I N T TO MAGISTRATES, A;

[494] O n a broadside entitled Ex-OHicial Vagaries (lower portion with i m p r i n t not shown. Date, J a n . 17, 1818). Unsigned. [Drawn (?) by George C r u i k s h a n k . Etched by Isaac Cruikshank, 1810.] George C. h a d inscribed this: " T h e body of this figure was etched by my father with a head of Sir Francis Burdett, which was taken out a n d this p o r t r a i t (of William Hone) p u t on Sir Francis' shoulders, by w h o m I d o not know". A 19th-century collector had the o p i n i o n t h a t George himself had redrawn the head a n d forgotten a b o u t it. G. T . Banks, of Goodspeed's Book Shop in HONE,

[488] (A) , or a visit f r o m Dr. Flannel!! [P1807] Tegg. 295. Caries., 3, (20). Wo[o]wdard del. [I.] Cruikshank s. BM 10921. Reid 35. Douglas 1039. P.U.M.C.: IE 2669. A.S.W.R., p. 8. A lady objects to a grotesque old doctor's • H I N T TO T H E LADIF.S

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P O R T R A I T O F SIR W I L L I A M .

Tom Sheridan is ordered out of the house for a caterwauling by a harridan, who threatens to "snod" him. A satire on Sheridan's unsuccessful attempt to get his son into Parliament. The father, dressed as a Harlequin and tipsy, sprawls on some steps in the foreground.

Boston, who have this print in their stock, writes me that they assume that Isaac "also etched the head from the Cruikshank drawing or whomever the artist was that did the head." T h e item has an interesting association with the cartoon on Burdett's arrest, dated April 9, 1810—one of the last done by Isaac. T h e broadside portrays Hone (half length). Above his head a scroll reads, "This is the man who published the parodies." Between the title and "Ex-Official Vagaries" is a couplet, "Thrice he routed all his foes/and thrice he slew the slain." [495] HONEST J A C K ' S ADVICE TO T H E DOCTOR! Title ON mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.15 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). lOs^xlS in. The sailor gives advice to the Admiralty on how to deal with the enemy's ships. [496]

[500]

IS HADFIELD, attemting [sic] to shoot the King in Drury Lane Theatre - o n the 15th of May 1800. J. Garbaneti. N.d. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9536. Hadfield, later proved insane, fires a pistol at the King before being seized by Sheridan and two others. The orchestra plays "God Save the King." Drapery on the royal box displays a verse of the same hymn, adapted to this event. HORRID ASSASSIN

[501]

HOUSE THAT J A C K BUILT.

Sepr. 28, 1809. Fores. [I. and G.] Cruikshank. BM 11416: "Better and more realistically drawn than No. 11415." See item 502. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2670: 1808 (?). Douglas (959) says it is different from his 958 and gives a later date, "Octr. 20th." Note also the different publisher (Fairburn). The print is divided into seven boxes, each with a description. The first depicts a large house; the next two, theatre boxes and "pigeon holes" (oval spaces in the tier above). The four in a lower row show an old maid ("the cat"), John Bull with a bugle, the thief taker, the Manager. "Jack" refers to the actor Kemble, who appears in several Cruikshank satires in connection with the O.P. riots. (Cp. Kemble hear, etc.)

•HONEST TARS AND MARINES OF T H E ARGONAUT ( T H E ) CONTRIBUTING NOBLY TO RAISE A FUND TO DRIVE INTO THE SEA THE ENEMIES O F OLD ENGLAND. 12 March 1798. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll.

210. Cr. Momus, p. 14: Isaac Cruikshank, Jan. 31, 1798. It is unusual for a Momus reproduction to carry an earlier date than the Laurie 8c Whittle print. BM 9185 assigns no artist. Sailors and officers drop their coins on to an overturned tub. [497]

HONI-SOIT-QUI-MAL-Y

(THE)

PENSE.

July 1809. J . Johnston. Unsigned. [I. (? and G) Cruikshank] BM 11343. Blindfolded Justice, sitting on a cloud, holds tilted scales. T h e Duke of York's scale rests on the ground. Mrs. Clarke on the shoulders of a dejected Wardle, in a scale that several men are vainly trying to hold down. [498]

[502]

HOUSE THAT J A C K BUILT. BOW-WOW-WOWL!!

(See

also under Kemble Hear, item 607.) September 1809. J . Fairburn. [I. and G.] Cruikshank. BM 11415 attributes this plate to Rowlandson (see Grego, 2, 165). Reid 82. P.U.M.C.: IE 2670. Douglas (958) : In 7 divisions with verses beneath each. This also is found with different verses (Douglas 959). Cohn (1285): "The Bruton copy was autographed by G.C.: 'The first part by me, the other by my father.' "

HOPE O F THE FAMILY IN THE ROAD TO PREFERMENT ( T H E ) .

Mar. 26, 1799. Ackermann. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. Seen at Sessler's, February 28, 1917. A farmer buying a place in the Government. [499] •HOPES ( T H E ) OF THE FAMILY [written above " P A R T Y " , which is scored through]—a chip of the old block—the inheriter [sic] of his fathers virtues! Another sentiment is illegible in my copy. July 9, 1807. Fores. ICks. BM 10747.

[503]

•HOW A GREAT ADMIRAL, WITH A GREAT F L E E T , WENT A GREAT WAY, WAS LOST A GREAT WHILE, SAW A GREAT SIGHT—& THEN CAME HOME FOR A LITTLE WATER.

Deer. 10, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8353.

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A d m i r a l Howe's fleet a p p a r e n t l y missed a chance to win a b a t t l e by getting lost in a fog. T h e p u n on H o w e is not original w i t h this print. [504] H O W i LOVE TO LAUGH, or the yawner. Engraved verses, Sung by M r . Grimaldi. J a n y 8. 1807. L a u r i e & W h i t t l e . A droll. 454. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10936. A kneeling m a n is yawning, b u t with his a r m a r o u n d a girl's waist. T h e verses describe his various accidents resulting f r o m yawning ineptly. [505]

Mrs. Clarke c r a m m i n g Wardle w i t h r o u n d balls (sold for the World, the Army, the C h u r c h , etc.); her creditors watch anxiously. [510] or an a t t e m p t at tragedy, with the J o r d a n (struck t h r o u g h a n d replaced by " J o r a m " ) upsett. Dec 20, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 7934. A satire on Mrs. J o r d a n ' s liaison with the D u k e of Clarence. She is seen here s u p p o r t e d by the Duke, while the Prince of Wales says, "Never mind." HUMBUG

(THE)

H O W T O GAIN A C O M P L E A T VICTORY, a n d s a y , y o u

[511]

got safe out of the enemys reach. Deer 15, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7932. T i p u Sahib blasting Lord Cornwallis, a satire o n the retreat f r o m Seringapatam.

the m o r n i n g after. March [PMay] 1st 1799. Fores. Woodward del. Etchd by Cruikshank. N o t in BM. Sessler no. 24. A series of eight figures showing the accidents that may h a p p e n at night. A salacious satire inspired by the coming-of-age party of the D u k e of R u t l a n d .

[506] H O W TO GAMMON T H E DEEP ONES, O r t h e W a y t O

o v e r t u r n a coach according to act of P L M T . N.p., n.d. IC. BM 7823. Spencer, 1929. A satire on the bill introduced by R. G a m o n , M.P., for regulating stagecoaches. [507] •HOW

TO INVADE

ENGLAND.

J u n 6, 1803. Williamson. ICks. Not f o u n d in BM. Broadley 2 (Latta collection, p. 345), no. 931. Bonaparte, crowned and in uniform, threatens J o h n Bull, w h o is shackled a n d has a noose a r o u n d his neck held by a French soldier. J o h n tells h i m he could smuggle in a million in brandy casks; b u t he'd better look after his home affairs, a n d even if he kills him, he'll never alter his (John's) o p i n i o n . [508] H O W T O STOP AN INVADER.

J u l y 28, 1803. Williamson. ICks. BM 10042. Broadley 1, 182; 2, p. 317, no. 446. Ashton, p. 175. N a p o l e o n asks, " W h i c h is the way to Lond o n ? " J o h n Bull answers, " W h y t h r o u g h my body," as he stabs N a p o l e o n with a pitchfork, b u t "I'se be t h r o ' yourn wirst." In the backg r o u n d , the F r e n c h r u n f r o m the farmers, one being attacked by a bull dog, a n o t h e r tossed by a bull.

• H U M O U R S O F BELVOIR CASTLE—or

[512] H U N T I N G PIECE

(A)

ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION.

Mar. 8, 1796. A c k e r m a n n . Caries., 8, 43. Unsigned. [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank f ] BM 9648. Spencer, 1929. J . B. T o w n s e n d collection. Eight scenes in two rows, all based o n some f o r m of h u n t i n g (fame, the bottle, a debtor, money, a person seeking to d r o w n care with a p u n c h bowl, etc.). [513] [•HUNTING THE HARF]

N o v r 5, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 33, p. 89. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8960. Leisurely horsemen are gathered near a bush where a hare crouches. T h e h o u n d s in the f o r e g r o u n d watch a d i s m o u n t e d h u n t e r a b o u t to seize him. [514] HUZZA,

FOR

OLD

IRELAND,

WITH

HUBBABOO

WHACK! Sung by Mr. J o h n s t o n e a n d Mrs. Bland. 4th April, 1810. Laurie & W h i t t l e . A droll. 515. Unsigned. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k del.] BM 11701. T h e two singers smile, he at the audience, she at him. [515] N o p u b . [P1812] [PI] Cruikshank del. BM 11954 discusses the d o u b t f u l n a t u r e of this as an IC. T h e editor notes that IC's work "seemed t o cease" after 1810. T h e r e are, however, exceptions. A l t h o u g h 1

[509] H O W T O STUFF AN ACCUSER.

March 3d 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11237. Inscribed in o n e copy: "I CK, not any of it by me. G.C." R e i d 65.

81

BE A GROCER.

the year of his death is generally given as 1810, he might have finished this print, and yet it might not have been published till 1812. T h e print shows a man surrounded by groceries, facing him the devil's head and shoulders in a pit. Sticking out of the grocer's pocket is a paper with a dealer's name on it—"Wills Tap." The BM copy has entered on it (in ink) this name ("Fred. K. Wills, Esq.-of the firm of Wills—Tap—8c Morgan", a former owner of tthe print), with the year 1812.

face of an old woman who has fallen back on a chair." •ILLUSTRIOUS LOVER

[516] I NIVER KNOW'D I WUR SIC A FAVORITE WITH T*LASSIES TILL THEN, &c. J. Duncombe (19 Little

Queen St.), n.d. [1801]. [?I.] Cruikshanks del. Tomkins sc. 9.3x14.8 cm. A colored caricature. Inscribed (in ink) by George Cruikshank: "Not by me G.C." Mr. Sessler's list and Reid, 4500, listed under "A Soldier taking leave of a woman," are the only authorities that I have found mentioning this plate. A soldier, saying good-by to a woman, has his arm around her, as he describes his anticipation of a glorious career, in order to help her dry her tears. [517] • " I WILL BE A SOLDIER". (Plate cropped too close to show title, date or publisher.) A large plate: ca. I2y2xl8y2 in. Woodward delint. IC s. (engraved on the design). Eight pairs of figures, each with descriptive legends, illustrate the experiences of a soldier from the time he tells his father that he is leaving till he is left for dead on the battlefield, then comes to and seeks a doctor's help in relieving his "exquisite torture"—to be told that a finger is slightly wounded.

Novr 19, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PL 37, p. 99. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8964. A cross Hooking woman is carrying in a large bowl of punch. [519] ILLUSTRATION FOR A BOOK ENTITLED HARRY DORN-

TON. Laurie 8c Whittle. No date. Isaac Cruikshank. An original "watercolor drawing," "signed by the artist." Sy 4 n7y 8 in. From Woodin sale cat., item 244.4 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). "Two London dandies with their corinthian friends are drinking wine, one couple is dashing a glass of wine and the punch bowl into the

Cum-

[521] Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott (?). TI.C. An original drawing—all but two of thirteen in this group "signed with initials." From Woodin sale cat., 249.11 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10xl5s/8 in. "A political cartoon satirizing Russia's treatment of Poland." [522] IMPERIAL PROTECTION.

• # I M P I OUS [SIC] ATTACK ON THE BACK SETTLEMENTS (AN) , or oriental diversions for Rajahs

["Eli" crossed out, and replaced by "Ra"]. Janry 4 [1791]. Fores. Cruikshank. BM 8276. Both colored and uncolored in my collection. Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Bengal, beating a woman's backside. Note the changes in the words Impi ous and Rajahs to make the puns on Impey and Elijah. [523]

[518] [•ILL-TEMPERED HOSTESS (AN) .]

/THE) , o r t h e D . of

berland done over. Augst. 16, 1801. Fores. Unsigned. [IC] BM 9777. Note the coronet on the back of the Chair. The Duke, in no way a portrait, presses a ribbon to his lips. A number of foolish books and prints, and bags marked "lollipops," "parmesan," etc., lie on a table. Silly ejaculations issue from his mouth, describing his passions, dresses, the medicines she should take, prescribing that her gowns should be looser, she must wait for him to read to her the Life of Major Hanger, and ending "O what a dog I am." These ramblings fill nearly half the plate.

IMPOSTOR UNMASKED (THE) , o r t h e n e w m a n

of

the people, with anecdotes never before published illustrative of the character of the renowned and immaculate Bardolpho, inscribed without permission T o that superlatively honest and disinterested man R. B. S-r-d-n, esq. "Let the galled Jade wince." Shakespeare. Colored folding frontispiece: [I.] Cruikshank del. The P.U.M.C. copy (Cruik IE 2361) is inscribed, "By my Father Isaac. G. Ck." Reid 4597. Douglas 314. Cohn 429. A.S.W.R., p. 1. In the frontispiece, Sheridan is telling an angry crowd that he will pay them his respects, bring in a Bill of Rights, and give their oppressors a check. One replies, "Damn you, pay us our bills, your checks are worth nothing." A caricature of "Sheridan at the Hastings." 82

[524]

Isaac Cruikshank. Woodin sale cat., part 2, p. 90, item 323, 8: "Fashion in Caricature." Inscribed in autograph of Geo. Cruikshank: "By my Father, Isaac Cruikshank. G.Ck." [529] •INSIDE O F A SCHOOL ( T H E ) ,—or the first meeting—after the—holidays! II Feby. 17, 1800. Fores. Cawse. [PIC sc.] BM 9515: no engraver named. So much like IC's work that he may well at least have cut the plate. Pitt, as a schoolteacher, instructs a new scholar on how to spell "pension" and how to be a good boy. At another desk, Dundas tells a form full of sulky boys how to behave. In the centre a weeping boy, with a truant's cap, stands on a pile of reports.

. Exemplified in the following rules, viz. to mount a horse with ease and dexterity, and to sit him with grace and dignity. By G. Lloyd and R. Symes. Unsigned. Folding frontisp. (six sections) by [?I. or G. Cruikshank], [Book] Sm. 8vo. Pp. [I]-32. The letterpress begins on the verso of the title page. London. Bailey [1810]. Cohn 495. P.U.M.C.: Cruik 1810.2. IMPROVED ART O F RIDING

(THE)

( T H E ) , or tlie insatiable English dragon. July 19, 1804. Williamson. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10259. A showman exhibits an insatiable monster to John Bull, Pat and a Scot. A cartoon against Pitt. [525a] INCONVENIENT PARTNERS IN WALTZING. Tegg. N.d. [?I.] Cruikshank fec't. R99. A drawing room devoid of any furniture, except a large mirror at one side. Three illmatched couples whirl around. In the first, the man is so stout that his partner nearly breaks her back to keep her hands on his shoulders. In the next, the lady is so much taller that she almost has to carry the man around. In the third, the man is bent double to reach his partner's waist. In the background, a fourth couple has come to grief through a concussion. [526] INCOME TAX

INDUSTRIOUS MAN

(AN) .

Jany. 6, 1798. Fores. Woodward del. Cruikshank no. 47. Two figures of men. [527]

s. Sessler (1917),

] Though this title is as given by Reid, it has been bracketed to indicate doubt as to the actual wording, if any, on the plate. No date or publisher given. I.Ck.S. Reid (1, 24) calls it "repulsive in its truthfulness." Two ruffians are attacking Steel, who lies unconscious on the ground, while a third rifles his pockets. A stagecoach in the distance is seen by them with alarm. Steel was murdered November 6, 1802; the murderers, Holloway and Haggerty, were executed at the Old Bailey on February 23, 1807. [528] [/NHUMAN MURDER O F M R . S T E E L ( T H E )

INNKEEPER'S DAUGHTER (AN) BUCKS TO T H E I R CHAMBER.

SHOWING

[530] INSIGNIA VILLAE DE PRETON.

No publisher named. [? 1784] Unsigned. [IC] BM 6675. A burlesque coat of arms for Preston, dealing with the re-election of Burgoyne as M.P. Contested in 1784, he was declared elected April 22, 1785. [531]

INTENDED WIND.

BONNE

FARTE

RAISING

A

SOUTHERLY

Feb: 20. 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9172. Broadley 1, 108109. Bonaparte, beside the Dover Strait, sends off large amounts of military supplies, while Berthier feeds him parched peas to raise the wind. Soldiers, emerging on the English side from a dragon and a huge raft, are welcomed by Fox et al. [532] •INTERROGATORIES or an examination before the Commissioners. August 20, 1795. Fores. IC. BM 8673. Women, who claim to be creditors of the Prince of Wales, are being examined by Commissioners, appointed by Act of Parliament for this purpose. These are obviously not the five great officers of State named in the Act. [533]

IRISH B U L L BROKE LOOSE

(THE) .

March 26, 1799. Aitken. Unsigned. j?I. Cruikshank] BM 9365. The Irish bull, tossing Pitt and chasing Dundas, is cheered by the opposition to the union, a move which was eventually agreed to about a year later. [534] ! Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott.

TOWN

IRISH DISCOVERY

1801. Unsigned.

83

(AN)

Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor. From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.4 (Parke-Bemet Gall., 1942). 113^x8 in. A cartoon on Irish enlisting: "Please your Honor, we wanted a Drummer Boy so we enlisted this Girl for a Man and now HE turns out to be a WOMAN!!" •HUSH EPITAPH

(AN) .

[535]

[1807, a reissue?] Tegg. Caries., 8, 154. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank s. BM 10914. Douglas 1045. Reid 23. P.U.M.C.: IE 2667. An old Irish couple in a graveyard comment on an epitaph on a gravestone: "Here lies John Highley whose Father 8c Mother were drown'd in their passage to Americaf.] Had they both lived they would have been Buried Here." The couple comments on the parents. A small dog urinates on the base of the stone. [536] , or the Catholics in Fitz! March 20th, [1795]. Fores. Unsigned. IC. BM 8632. A no-Popery satire on Fitzwilliam's calamitous lord-lieutenancy of Ireland. It was not until March 23 that he actually left Dublin, and then in a manner which evoked a great popular ovation.

IRISH HOWL

(AN)

[537]

•IRISH INTRODUCTION TO A ROYAL P U L P I T

(AN) .

March 16, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. (? and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11255. Reid 68. The Duke of York, holding "A List of Darling Angels," all beginning with C, (Creswick, Clarke, &c), faces O'Meara, who pointing to the list, ironically comments on his fondness for the C's. "I presume you mean the Church," says the Duke. Mrs. Clarke emerges from behind a window curtain, with finger to nose: "This is properly the Church militant." • • IRISH

[538]

POET'S CRACE TO A SHORT

ALLOWANCE

(THE) . Undated [Jan. 14, 1807]. Tegg. [Tegg's Folio] N. 9. 113. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2663. BM 11469. Reid (143) gives date as Jan. 1812—perhaps a reissue. Douglas (1251) says that 1812 is too late for Isaac, whose work it certainly is. Some copies are on paper watermarked 1813. One of mine is dated 1822; the other, with worn imprint, shows no watermark. The threadbare poet, at the head of a threadbare table, in a six-line rhyme compares the meal to the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

[539] Laurie 8c Whittle. Jan. 12, 1808. Songhead. Unsigned. Isaac Cruikshank. The copy in Cohn's sale cat. (p. 148, no. 1022 f.) is inscribed, "From a drawing by my Father," in the autograph of GC. IRISH

SMUGCLERS.

IRISH UNION

(AN) !

[540]

Jan. 30, 1799. Fores 8^x131/ 8 in. IC. BM 9344. Pitt joins the hands of John Bull and Paddy, while Dundas, in Scottish costume, says he'll read Paddy a little to show he'll be much happier. Paddy suspects "Blareying" [sic]; John Bull is confused. A Pitt supporter stands by with wet blankets in case of need. On January 22 the King's Message recommended union with Ireland. [541]

IRISH VOLUNTEERS ADVANCING AT T H E SEIGE [SIC] OF DUBLIN. Jany 1 [1807]. Tegg. (P. Roberts

had published an earlier print with this title.) Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10081. Irish volunteers on galloping bulls, each facing the bull's tail. The political inference is uncertain. [542]

•IS THIS A RATTLE WHICH I SEE B E F O R E M E ?

Oct. 30th, 1809. Fores. [I.] Cruikshank. BM 11422. Douglas 962. Reid 88. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2545. Kemble, caricatured, plays the dagger scene ("Macbeth"). The rattle was one of the O.P. rioters' chief instruments for making a noise. [•ISLINGTON

[543]

CHARACTERS]

Ecc.

Exc.:

PL

11,

p.

25. Aug. 27, 1796. Allen 8c West. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8940. A coach, loaded with passengers, passes a house before which two elderly men sit, smoking and drinking. [544]

•ITINERANT DEALERS IN STAFFORDSHIRE WARE.

April 15, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 97 (no page given). Woodward del. I. Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this engraving. An outdoor scene of a couple with two children awaiting the grandmother's cooking of a stew in a kettle hanging from a tripod. A fourpiece tea set stands on the ground in a corner. [545]

•ITINERANT THEATRICAL SKETCH

84

(AN) .

February 25, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 69 [p. 163], Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp. B M 9132. On a small stage an actor, dressed in black, rants against a couple embracing behind a curtain that he has pulled back. T h e audience displays various emotions.

another. Sixteen engraved verses. Oct. 26, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 476. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] B M 10955. Cr. Momus, p. 36: "Isaac 8c George Cruikshank." [552]

T i t l e written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. N.d. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.6 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10s/ 4 x9i4 in. His lady hangs on his arm, while he counts his gold. J A C K TAR

[546] IT'S AN ILL WIND, BLOWS NO BODY GOOD—or

the

effects of the imposture of St. Martin's. Sep. 20, 1801. Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 9778. T h e reactions of several couples are shown after being falsely married by a bogus parson.

JACK'S

[548]

AFTER

LORD

HOWE'S

VICTORY.

[554] vide page 38, Vol. I I I . An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. Published by J . Roach . . . May 1st, 1796. Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculps. Jane, in contemplative mood, stands outside the city wall, a hand outstretched toward a garden gate.

• J A C K J U N K EMBARKING ON A CRUIZE!!

• J A N E SHORE,

Mar. 1 [1807]. T h e Harvard copy is watermarked 1816 (a reissue). Tegg. 104. Cruikshank [sic] del. BM 10898: [I. Cruikshank del.]. Reid 18. Douglas 1040. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I E 2668. Jack tries to mount his horse by putting his left foot in the right stirrup, and replies to the ostler who shows him his error, that the ostler doesn't know which way he intends to go.

[555] [ • J E W AND BISHOP]

[549]

Octr 8, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 65 [sic, for 25], p. 25. Woodward del. Cruikshank s. B M 8954. While a bishop tries to convert a Jew, the Jew seeks to make some money by extracting information from him about the change of the ministry, in "hopes of putting something in his pocket through the medium of the stocks."

• J A C K JUNKS OPINION O F T H E FRENCH LANGUAGE.

Augst. 1805. Fores. Caries., 10, 55. Woodward dclt. [PIC sculp.] B M 10489: [Williams f.]. Characteristic Woodward figures, but this could well have been cut by IC. A burly sailor tells his companion why he despises the French language, which calls a horse a "shovel" [cheval] and a hat a "chopper" [chapeau].

[556] JEWEL

(A)

O F T H E FIRST WATER SENT TO COVEN-

TRY. T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. Original watercolor. From Woodin sale cat., item 246.3 (ParkeBernet Gallery, 1942). 103^x121/2 in.

[550] Heading to an engraved song, written by T . Dibdin, Esqr. May 20th 1805. Laurie & Whittle. 394. A droll. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 10503 names no artist. A negro sings of his experiences after being taken from the coast of Guinea by kidnappers; flogged by his master, made footman to several other masters, he is soon to marry a negress. "Happy she and I if Buckra [white] man will let us." J A C K O F GUINEA.

STEDFAST;

RETURN

T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. IC. An original drawing. Done probably about 1794, the year of Howe's victory. From Woodin sale cat., item 250.11 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 1H/8X95/8 in.

CASTLE.

;?IC] Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Six bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat. p. 113, item 768a.

JACK

AT HOME AGAIN.

[553]

[547] ••IVY

(A)

[557] * J O E PICK O F DALE A B B E Y

DARBEYSHIRE.

March 25, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: Plate 86 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. B M lacks this plate. T h e seated portrait of a well-known character, commonly thought to be an idiot. He is neatly dressed, except for breeches unbuttoned

[551] or the heart that can feel for

85

below the knee. He "may hereafter rank in point of many vertues [sic] superior to his more enlightened neighbors." J O H N AM I DRAGCL'D.

[558]

Jany 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8373. A fat woman is followed by an admirer, her footman carrying an umbrella. A satire on Mrs. Hobart (Lady Buckinghamshire). [559] A Whimsical Old Ballad. Novr 20. 1805. Laurie & Whittle. Heading to engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Fawcett. A droll. 412. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10513. Four men and women, all tipsy, are dancing in an alehouse, while beer gushes from a spigotless barrel. Through a window a woman is seen running off with a joint that Appleby has thrown out of the window. JOHN APPLEBY.

JOHN

BULL

[560]

ADVISING W I T H

But it's O in my heart, if he does may I be d d!!" John, an elderly, fat citizen, who carries a walking stick, and Boney, caricatured with a huge cocked hat and an enormous sabre, face each other across the Channel. The cartoon is one of the numerous "invasion prints," designed to help strengthen the British for the threatened French invasion. [562] J O H N B U L L AND BONAPARTE. Interesting Speeches on the French Invasion. Folding frontisp. by I.C. [Book] London, John Fairbum. 1803. See broadside with same title and date (BM 10064), pub. by Ackermann (preceeding item). [563] J O H N B U L L AND BRITAIN. Song sheet. Aug. 13, 1800. Ackermann. Unsigned. [Woodward. IC.] Not in BM. No data available. [564] J O H N B U L L AS J U S T I C E WEIGHING A COMMANDER.

HIS

SUPERIORS.

April 3, 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10978. Reid 44. An anticipation of the Clarke affair. John Bull is criticizing the Duke of York and the Prince of Wales. Armed with a bludgeon, John sitting before them, warns them of the fate of the French nobility. He scares them so that their hair stands on end. [561]

• J O H N B U L L AND BONAPARTE!!

Broadside (printed by Shury). Augt. 13, 1803. Ackermann. Woodward del. IC. BM 10064. Broadley; Wheeler and Broadley 2, (reproduced) opp. Five verses "to the tune of the Blue Bells of Scotland": "When and O when does this little Boney come?/ Perhaps he'll come in August!— perhaps he'll stay at home/ But it's O in my heart, how I'll hide him if he come.// Where and O where does this little Boney dwell?/ His birthplace is in Corsica—but France he likes so well,/ that it's O the poor French how they crouch beneath his spell.// He wears a large cock'd hat for to make the people stare,/ But it's O my oak stick! I'd advise him to take care!// What shall be done, should this little Boney die?/ Nine cats shall squall his dirge, in sweet melodious cry;/ and it's O in my heart, if a tear shall dim my eye.//Yet still he boldly brags, with consequence full cramm'd/ On England's happy island his legions he will land;/

April 1809. J. fonstone. Unsigned. [I. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11304. The Duke of York's scale weighed down by Mrs. Clarke. [565] • JOHN B U L L AT T H E SIGN, " T H E CASE IS A L T E R E D . "

No X I I I . Small. No pub. [1808], [/C 1808. Not found in BM list. In the adjacent corners of the two compartments are minute, almost indecipherable letters, which are taken for (to the right) "IC 1808"; (to the left) "St IC." T o the left a plump Frenchman carves a large roast, a fat dog beside him; to the right, a threadbare John Bull (not like the usual J B of caricature) sits before a meagre meal of small fishes, with an emaciated bulldog at his feet. On the wall are two pictures showing just the opposite situation, labelled "A Frenchman in 1788," "John Bull in 1788." [566] JOHN

B U L L FORMING A CATALANI O F HIS O W N ! !

March 27, 1807. Tegg. N. 15. Woodward del. I. Cruikshanks sp. BM 10907. A gray tabby cat (Catalani) singing. John Bull with a fiddle. [567]

J O H N B U L L HUMBUGG'D ALIAS BOTH-EAR'D.

May 12, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8458. George III representing John Bull humbugged by Fox and Pitt; "both-eared" (bothered) also had the meaning of blarney or humbugged.

86

[568] • J O H N BULL IN A RAGE FORCING FIGHT AGAINST HIS W I L L .

NIC FROG

cil. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2727. 27.2x35.4 cm. T i t l e and lettering in ink in wife's hand. J o h n Bull asks for something "stilish and grand." Pitt, with a frightened expression, is playing a cello (that has a Rose under the strings) backed by Dundas in a kilt playing bagpipes, and a flutist. H e says he will try to please. " W h a t do you think of this—it is a grand serious movement called the Deliverance of Europe." J o h n Bull's and Pitt's profiles are the only parts done with care. Cp. Fores print (Mar. 21, 1799) with same title (item 573).

TO

Feb: 9, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8299. Pitt is seen supporting J o h n Bull. Fox maintained that England forced Holland into war, which was declared by France on February 1. [569] or the approach of the

J O H N BULL IN SWEDEN,

Extinguisher. Original drawing by IC, [1801] in A. M. Broadley's collection. See Broadley 1, p. 143; 2, p. 319, no. 488. Bonaparte, Russia and Denmark, with a bag labelled "Lombardy," are carrying a gigantic patent extinguisher toward J o h n Bull a n d his Swedish ally, who says to him, "I hope you have more money as I can't hold out." J o h n says not to be afraid if they stick together.

[573] J O H N BULL LEARNING A NEW M O V E M E N T AGAINST T H E NEXT CAMPAIGN.

March 21, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. IC del. [? and sc.] BM 9364: [PSansom.] (See preceding item.) J o h n capers before Pitt, who is playing a cello, a n d Dundas a n d others. T o J o h n , who wants something "stilish and grand," Pitt suggests a movement called : : T h e Deliverance of Europe or U n i o n with Ireland."

[570] or, British wool forever. H e a d i n g to 8 printed verses: W r i t t e n and sung by Mr. Emery, with u n b o u n d e d applause, at the T h e a t r e Royal Haymarket. 15 Augt 1809. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 508. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11523. A.S.W.R., p. 216. A jovial J o h n Bull, not a rustic, describes his visit to London. As fashionable men and woman stroll by, he expresses his surprise that the bucks are "all f u r r ' d to the throat," while the ladies wear homely red cloaks. JOHN

BULL

IN

TOWN;

[574] JOHN

BULL P E P P E R I N G

BONAPARTE.

Holland 1803. IC. Broadley 2, list no. 938 (Latta collection). Not listed in BM. [575] J O H N BULL GAZETTE.

PERUSING

THE

EXRAORDINARY

[SIC]

Octr. 10, 1808. R. Ackermann. Unsigned. [G. a n d / o r I. Cruikshank] BM 11045. A newsboy sells J o h n Bull his copy of the Gazette about the u n p o p u l a r Convention of Cintra, between Sir Hew Dalrymple and General J u n o t , for the French evacuation of Portugal.

[571] J O H N BULL IN TRAINING FOR T H E YEAR 179911 Jan. 1. 1799, M. Allen. I.C. BM 9338. T h e Sultan, the Czar and the King of Prussia riding J o h n Bull led by Pitt. T h i s satirizes the income tax and the subsidies demanded by these powers a n d by Austria.

[576] JOHN

[571a]

BULL REFRESHING T H E BEARS M E M O R Y .

Deer. 20. 1807. Tegg. 34. [I.] Cruikshank scp. BM 10776. Broadley. Wright, p. 286. T h e Czar (here a crowned bear) had called the attack on Copenhagen an act of violence without parallel; but he is silent about the Empress Catherine's seizure of her share of Poland, which J o h n Bull points out to him.

J O H N BULL INTERRUPTED AT HIS M O M E N T S O F REFRESHING M E D I T A T I O N .

Feb. 17, 1800. W. Hixon. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 9520 names no artist. T h i s seems like Isaac's work. J o h n Bull, standing before an open fire, looks irritably at Pitt, who approaches him deferentially. This relationship has inspired other cartoons.

[577] #

[572]

JOHN

BULL SHEWING T H E CORSICAN

MONKEYl

Sepr. 3, 1803. Ackermann. Woodward d. I.Ck. BM 10089. Napoleon, in uniform and holding a globe and sceptre, but with legs and tail of a monkey,

J O H N BULL LEARNING A N E W M O V E M E N T AGAINST T H E NEXT C A M P A I G N .

Original pencil and ink sketch, signed I.C. "Done for a caricature." "[1798]" added in pen-

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sits chained to a bear led by John Bull, who shows Napoleon to curious spectators. [578]

taxes." T h e financier's figure might have been done by George Cruikshank. [584]

• J O H N BULL TIPPING ALL NINE.

•JOHN

May 28, 1804 ("3" erased). Williamson. I.Ck. BM 10000. SWF's owner's stamp. JB bowls over nine French officers (ninepins) . His uniformed opponent (Napoleon caricatured) says, "Jean Bull never lose, now he's broke my shin." 1579]

Original colored sketch, signed I.C. (on verso of "The Shewman" sketch, item 1092). From the Woodin sale, item 184.12 (ParkeBernet Gall.). 13^xl0s/ 8 in. An irate John Bull refuses to pay: "Unless your Master engages the sun all the year round, I'll see you both dam'd before I'll pay a farthing." A sundial is indicated at upper left ("Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.") A tax collector remarks, "Sun dials must pay, Sir, its an excellent tax," [585]

J O H N BULL TROUBLED WITH T H E BLUE DEVILS.

May 23, 1799. Fores. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9391. John Bull, sitting before a fire, is terrified by a horde of demons, who attack him, each carrying a new tax. [580] * J O H N BULL'S ADDRESS TO MRS. CLARKE ON T H E LATE CONSPIRACY.

Feby 24. 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I (? and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11221. Cohn 1258: "I. Cruikshank with a little work by G. C." Reid 62. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2475. John Bull tells a demure Mrs. Clarke that he and his family are glad that she had spirit enough to go through the step» necessary to expose such a host of conspirators. A satirical portrait of George Farquhar hanging on the wall, scowls at the good understanding between the couple. [581] J O H N BULL'S DESCRIPTION OF A CHURCH.

I.C. An original signed drawing. From the Wooden sale cat., item 185.4. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). Ca. 13x16 in. [582] • J O H N BULLS HINT FOR A PROFITABLE ALLIANCE.

Sep'r. 26. 1794. Fores. I. Cruikshanks fecit (added in ink). BM 8487. T h e Prince of Wales bows before the Empress Catherine, seated on her throne with its double-headed eagle, the Prince declaiming what a thing it is to be in love, etc. John Bull, behind him, expatiates on the merits of a buxom, rich widow. She is supported by a courtier, dressed in a bear's skin. However, in August he had already promised to marry the Princess of Brunswick. [583] • J O H N BULL'S PEEP INTO THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 1 8 0 7 .

Febry 13. 1807. Tegg. No. 12. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. BM 10701. Lord Henry Petty showing a reduction in taxes to John Bull, who says, " D — n all the

BULL'S RESOLUTION.

J O H N DOW SOLDIER OF THE CITY-GUARD ED I NR. ETCHED BENEATH THE TITLE: AND FAITHFULLY HE TOOMED HIS GLASS & WHISKY WAS HIS KIRN AYE.

J u n 1, 1784. N o p u b . Small (4I/2X3S,4 i n . ) .

I. Crookshanks Set. BM 6696. The spelling of the signature and the early date are noteworthy. John Dhu or Dow, a corporal of the City Guard, is seated at a table, holding a glass in one hand, a Lochaber axe in the other. [586] • J O H N GILPIN THE SECOND, or City Light Horse Volunteers performing their evolutions. July 17, 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8476. Men in uniform having difficulties in a riding school. A uninformed instructor holding a long whip says, "Keep your seats, Sirs," which most of them fail to do. This organization, an exclusive and expensive body, had just been reorganized. Their main duty was the suppression of civil disobedience. [587] J O H N GILPIN'S RACE! Heading to Cowper's verses. Holland, April 5, 1785. IC. BM 6888. One of sixteen consecutive items in BM Vol. 6 (6886-6902) on John Gilpin, an account of whose famous ride was first published in 1782. Gilpin gallops past the Bell at Edmonton, pursued by a number of riders and scattering all before him. [588] J O H N GROUSE AND MOTHER GOOSE. Sung by Mr. Emery. Feb. 1, 1808. Isaac 4r George Cruikshank. A.S.W.R., p. 216: Laurie 8c Whittle. Cr. Momus, p. 42. John, having come up to London, points smilingly at Mother Goose, with a golden egg 88

in her hand, and her goose. His eight verses vastly amuse the audience.

[595] •JOLTING

March 4, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 71. p. 164. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 9134. T h i s companion piece to Plate 70, "Symptoms of Jolting," shows the same coach interiors with the travellers sitting at ease, grasping straps attached to the sides of the coach.

[589] J O H N — H O W DO YOU LIKE M Y BRACES?

[May 4, 1796. Fores] Caries., 10, 113. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8902. A fat lady exposing her rear to her footman. [590] • • J O H N N Y IN A F L A T T I N G M I L L .

[596] , or Young Hackney beating John Bull's favorite Young Patrol. (Underneath the title is an earlier illegible title, in pencil.) Title repeated on mount by Temple Scott. IC (in pencil). Original colored sketch. lOx 14 in. Five figures are outlined in ink, three of them colored, others are roughly sketched in pencil. (There is an unfinished pencil sketch, without title, on the verso, not listed by me.) From the Woodin sale cat. (1942) item 184.19, p. 39. A cartoon against Pitt, who, mounted and wielding a club marked "Places, Pensions," cuts across a rider (faintly marked in pencil "Voting Public"), who brandishes a whip marked "Freedom of Choice." A man in the foreground calls, " T h a t s right cut him out never mind how." Three figures to the right call, "No Jostling there," " T h a t s foul play by G—d —," " H e could not get it by fair R u n n i n g . "

May 25, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 8808: [?West]. N o direct evidence as to the artist available. Isaac was doing most of Fores' work at this time. Pitt and Dundas look like IC's work. John Bull squeezed by Pitt and Dundas between two cylinders marked "loan" and "subsidy taxes."

•JOSTLING

[591] J O H N N Y R A W ' S N E W BANGUP F U N AND F R O L I C .

Colored frontispiece by IC. [Book] 12mo. Pp. [3]-28 (on blue p a p e r ) . London. Kemmish, 1S04. Chubbock, p. 4, no. 28. [592] • JOHNY

[SIC] BULL GIVING B O N E Y A

PULL.

August 7, 1803. Ackermann. I. Cks. BM 10053. Not a characteristic portrait of Napoleon. Broadley, 1, 184. John Bull pulls Napoleon toward a gallows by a rope around his neck. Napoleon cries, "Misericordi—hanging not good for Frenchmen." John replies, "I shan't measure the cord." A British naval victory is visible in the background. Another morale-builder against the threatened French invasion. [593] • J O H N Y [SIC] MAC-CREE IN T H E D U M P S I I

Apr. 12: 1805. Fores. ICk. BM 10385. Lord Melville (Dundas) being criticized for touching "the sillar" by two elderly Scots. Pitt (not a typical portrait) here hurries off to cut the connection, but actually was loyal to Melville and thought him essentially innocent. [594] • J O L L Y BEGGARS

(THE).

N.d., n.p. (Plate: 4y 8 x6i/ 8 in.) I. Cruikshank del. Colored frontispiece (folded) of "Poems . . . ascribed to Robert Burns." 8 vo. Not found in BM. A young woman has attracted the attention of one of the beggars gathered around a tavern fire; another threatens the frightened fiddler.

PREVENTIVES.

JUNTO

(THE)

[597] 1809, containing a poetical epistle, also an account of the Grand Entertainment at Cabbage Merchants' Hall. W i t h a Colored Caricature Print of two of the celebrated City Chaunters. By the Author of " T h e Whale." Colored engraving by [I. and G.] Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. 28 pp. Half title headed: " T h e Jubilee (alias Jew Belly) of 1809." London. John Fairburn. 1809. P.U.M.C. (p. 3573) : Cruik I, 1809.2. Chubbock, p. 6, no. 40. Douglas (320) : "G.C. has written on Mr. Bruton's copy 'By my Father and myself, George Cruikshank.' " T h e two compartments show Colonel Patty Pan and Sir J o h n Sugar-Stick. It is a satire on Birch, the pastry-cook, and Eames, a grover —both Volunteer officers. JUBILEE OF

[598] JULIA.

[PIC] Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767a.

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[599] * J U L I A AND HER FATHER LED THE VAN, AND T H E REST FOLLOWED. Vide page 68. Vol. II. An illus-

tration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers (in Prose). Cruikshank del. Reading sculpt. T h e title furnishes the description. Cp. other items on Julia's journey to London.

[600] or the adventures of the daughter of a village Curate. Also in Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. No. VI. Frontispiece by I. Cruikshank. [Book] 12mo. Pp. [7pi0. London. [1808] In Chubbock list, p. 6, no. 58. See also other "Julia" items in this list. JULIA,

[601] Five stipple and line engravings in Color (614x914 in.) assembled in one volume. [London] 4to. First issue. April 27, 1797 for G. Riley. Vide Curate of Elmwood (repeated on each plate). Also several lines of comment at bottom of each plate. Cruikshanks delin. Mays, P. Roberts, and Balston sculp. Plate 1. Julia and her faithful servant Joe departing to take the Warwick stage to London. Plate 2. Julia arrives at Lord C's House to solicit a Curacy for her Father where she is rudely treated by young Lord C., but is rescued by his Father's Chaplain. (Plate cropped.) Plate 3. Julia betrayed into a house of ill fame, from whence [sic] she is rescued by a highwayman. (Plate cropped.) Plate 4. Julia examined by the Justice on suspicion of being an accomplice of the Highwayman. (Plate cropped.) Plate 5. Julia in the Watchmans Lodgings where she is searched by two Bow Street runners. From the Hughes sale. Rare and fine examples of mixed colored stipple and line, and of Isaac's delicate art on suitable occasions. • J U L I A ' S JOURNEY TO LONDON.

[602] JUSTICE MITTIMUS AT LOSS A [SIC] HOW TO ACT IN THIS AFFAIR.

12th May, 1794. Laurie & Whittle (No. 105). A droll. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank] BM 8575. A perplexed JP quizzes a demure young girl. Beneath the title: "What have you been about, they say you are pregnant.—I really don't know your Worship—Some Wicked Wretch is the Cause of this report—But If I have done anything amiss Sir, I am sure I was Dreaming."

[60S] JUSTICES ENTERING AN ASSIZE TOWN. 1 7 9 6 .

IC. P.U.M.C. (still uncatalogued) . A procession of imposing justices with their retinue. [•JUSTICES'

MEETING

[

(A)]

Novr 5, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 31, p. 81. Title suggested by the text near top of p. 81. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8959. T h e four justices, seated about a table, are waited upon obsequiously, as a frightened couple appears before them. [605] "RATE KEARNF.Y." O'Corolan, (the Irish bard). Lady Morgan's well known song (engraved verses), Sung by Mr. Incledon. Nov. 9, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 475. I. Cruikshank Del. BM 10954. Reid 4494. Douglas 1808. Cohn 1273. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2661. A young man is alarmed by the alluring smile of a young girl working at a churn in front of her cottage.

[606] KEMBLE, ESQ., LIFE OF J O H N PHILIP (THE) , etC.

Colored (folding) frontispiece (of Kemble and the O.P. riots), signed I. Cruikshank. Cohn (459) : "The Widener copy was autographed, "The parts marked X are by Me—Geo. Cruikshank.' " [Book] 8vo. London. J. Johnston. N.d. [1809] 52 pp. Two editions (with slight differences) in the same year. The O.P. riots were directed against the new prices that had been fixed by Kemble, the rioters demanding a return to the old prices. [607] KEMBLE HEAR—JOHN BULL ADVISES—TO YOUR FAME—AND SINK YOUR PRICES!! I

SAVE

(Title September 1809.

printed above the design.) Fairburn. [I. and G.] Cruikshank. BM 11415 lists this under "House that Jack built—Bow-wowwow!!!" (See in this catalogue under H ) . Cohn (1285) : "The Bruton copy was autographed by G.C. 'The first part (section) by me, the others by my father.'" Reid 82. Douglas (958): "In seven Divisions, with verses beneath each." He notes that "this plate, though published separately, was also used as a frontispiece to a pamphlet, with the imprint in a different position."

[608] •KENTISH HOP MERCHANT AND THE LECTURER ON

90

" T h e Uproar! or John Bull as a manager." Cohn (1289): "chiefly by I. Ck." Douglas 960. Reid 86. Kemble, who frequently during the O.P. riots addressed his theatre audience from the stage, here makes an ironical speech about their desires. John Bull, in old-fashioned dress and top hat, displays a paper: " O L D PRICES. No Italian private Boxes. No Pigeon Holes. NO C A T A L A N I . "

( T H E ) . N.d. [?1809] Tegg. Caries., 8, 153. 103. Woodward del. IC. B M 11470. T h e lecturer begins to speak on [hloptics; the hop merchant objects that they call them Hop Poles, not sticks. [609] KIDDNAPPING [sic], or a disgrace to old England. August 26, 1794. G: Andrews. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 8484. Four exhausted men are chained to the wall, while solders maltreat a sailor. A common way of recruiting was through a crimp, who kept a house where recruits were held captive. OPTICS!!

[610] as performing at the Grand National Theatre. Novr. 1809. Tegg. [I. and G.] Cruikshank sulpt. [sic], B M 11425. Cohn (1288) : "Acknowledged by G.C. to contain some of his work, but chiefly by Isaac Ck." Cohn (1292) uses "as performed" in the title, suggesting a later date. Douglas 963. Not in Reid. A caricature on Kemble and the O.P. riots. T h e pit is full of ruffians attacking a few O.P. victims. Mendoza, the fighting Jew, runs among those said to have been hired by the Manager to support their side. [611] KILLING NO MURDER, or a new ministerial way of settling the affairs of the nation!! Sepr. 1809. Johnston (sic], [I.] Cruikshank invt et sept. BM 11371 adds [?assisted by George]. Castlereagh wounds Canning, who appears terrified. Sir William Curtis, in armor and holding a spit, is surrounded by edibles and wine.

[614]

B U L L . A broadside with verses. Nov. 1809. Johnston. [?I.] Cruikshank del. Cohn (1290): "different entirely from 1289 (item 613), but also relating to the OP riots." Douglas 964. B M 11419 note. KING J O H N

KILLING NO MURDER,

[615]

HAT, or heigho says Kemble. A broadside with engraved verses relating to the O.P. riots. Nov. 14, 1809. Tegg. [I. and G.] Cruikshank. Not found in BM. Cohn (1291) : "Chiefly the work of IC." Douglas 965. KING

VENISON!!

[613] KING J O H N AND JOHN

BULL.

Octr. 1809. Fairburn. [I. (?and G . ) ] Cruikshank sculpt. BM 11419. T h e plate was used also as a frontispiece to

IN

A

COCK'D

1616] (THE)

PLAYS GULLIVER A TRICK.

Vide Swift's Gulliver, Voyage to Brobdingnag [sic]. October 18th, 1803. Fores. Unsigned. [PIC del and/or sculp.] BM 10111: [Williams]. T h e similarity of Bonaparte here and in the John Bull and Bonaparte plate suggests that IC may have designed or engraved this plate. Reproduced in Ashton, p. 219. T h e allusion is to Gulliver being stuffed into an empty marrowbone—Bonaparte taking the place of Gulliver. T h e King's Dwarf is Lord Kirkcudbright.

[612] Sept. 15th, 1807. Tegg. 26. Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshank sr.] BM 10759: [William f.]. Broadley: King Terry (Jerome Bonaparte) not unlike an IC figure. T h e Jews are all typical Woodward. King Jerry, addressing his Hebrew subjects from the throne, tells them that what is known as Westphalia Ham, will be henceforth known as Westphalian Venison. T h e Kingdom of Westphalia had been formed in August.

JOHN

•KING'S DWARF

[617]

•KING J E R R Y TREATING HIS J E W I S H SUBJECTS W I T H WESTPHALIA

AND J O H N

•KING'S PLACE *: CHANDOS STREET IN AN UPROAR,

or a sentimental opposition—Two of a trade can never agree—. Oct. 20th, 1809. Fores. [I] Cruikshank del. B M 11421: [I and GC]. Cohn (1294) : "Chiefly the work of I. Cruikshank." Reid 87. Douglas 961. Kemble being tossed in a blanket by seven brothel-keepers who shout objections to private assignations, rooms and boxes (at the theatre) , which were thought to have taken over the clientele of the elite brothels in King's Place. A wall sign. " T h e Business of the Key," refers to a brothel in Chandos street; another says, "No connection with the Key." T h e singer Catalani is displayed: "You'll find none such among the noble Whores." Sir William Curtis is seen busy in the boxes. T w o private rooms, 91

seen above, have notices: "The Business of the Key removed here." [618] KITTY O F COLERAIN. SONG WITH PRINTED VERSES.

Apr. 4, 1809. Laurie 8e Whittle, a droll. 507. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank del.] BM 11522. A.S.W.R., p. 216. A pretty girl is lying in a hayfield, at her feet a broken pitcher, to which a young man points. The sixteen verses end: "For very soon after poor Kitty's disaster, The Devil a pitcher was whole in Colerain." [619] KNAVISH PAT—A TALE.

May 7, 1804. Laurie fc Whittle. A droll. 346. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 214. BM 10353. An Irishman, with his bundle on a stick and his dog beside him, sits at a table smoking, while a maid shows him two kinds of m e a t cow heels and a breast of mutton. Nine lines of verse below the title describe how he took the breast and did not pay—in the morning took the heels and ran away. [620] *L

JUCY DANDLINC HIS ANGELIC CHILD.

Jany. 29, 1791. Holland. Unsigned. p i C del. and/or sculp.] BM 7979: [HW?]. The editor's guess may be wrong. The style suggests IC. Another impression has an i inserted thus: Ju*cy. Lord Ducie's marriage to the widow of a banker is cartooned. [621]

here sprawled naked across a large tub marked "House of Commons." Men dressed as women try in vain to wash him white. Wardle and Mrs. Clarke are amused spectators. Isaac had made a cartoon with a similar title in 1795— "Washing the Blackamoor" (BM 8667). [623] LACK WATER CANAL

(A) . N . p . ,

n.d.

[Ca.

Feb.

1794] Unsigned, p i . Cruikshank] BM 8523. A parson on each side of a canal directs water into it. The Rochdale Canal Bill was passed on April 4, after being opposed by mill owners on certain streams and supported by others. [624] •LADIES WIGS.

June 12, 1798. Fores. Woodward del. [I] Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9313. Eight single figures, women, caricatured, all with wigs of different styles. [625] (THE) . Sung by Mr. Taylor of the Royal Covent Garden Theatre. Songhead. July 22, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 398. Isaac & George Cruikshank. July 12, 1805. Cr. Momus, p. 20. BM 10507 gives no artist. The date July 22 of the L. 8c W. print, i.e., later than that of the Momus print, suggests that it may not be a first issue. A group of sailors and marines, taking it easy on a gun deck, sing of naval victories and the death of Nelson. •LADS OF THE OCEAN

• L A BELLE ASSEMBLES.

May 12th 1787. Humphrey. Unsigned. [Gillray. ?IC sc.] BM 7218. See Grego's Gillray p. 86. A well designed and engraved plate, midway between Gillray and IC in style, which suggests that the latter may have done the engraving. Mrs. Hobart feeds the sacred flame of love attended by Lady Cecilia Johnston, striking a lyre; Miss Jefferies, carrying flowers; Lady Archer, leading a lamb; and Lady Mount-Edgcumb, carrying two turtle doves—all caricatured. In the background, Apollo sits on Parnassus playing a violin.

[ • A LADY PLAYING ON A HARPSICHORD]

Novr. 19, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 35, p. 96. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8962. The lady plays on an antique instrument marked "David Drowsy make (sic) 1568." [627] LAMENTABLE CASE OF CRIM-CON

(A) .

Augt 1, 1801. Fores. Caries., 8, 129. Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshank sc.] BM 9807: pWilliams f.] In Phila. Free Library (Joseph Carson collection). The judge listens to the husband (whose words are etched across the top of the design). The hideous wife stands between her onelegged, well-dressed lover and a constable. T h e husband hopes for excessive damages—a not infrequent subject of satire at that time.

[622] old women trying to wash a Blackamore white. March 27, 1809. Fairburn. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11272. A cartoon against the Duke of York, who is LABOUR IN VAIN—or

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[628] • L A S T GRAND MINISTERIAL EXPEDITION

(THE) ! o n

the street, Piccadilly. April 19th, 1810. Fores. /. Ch. [and G.C.] One of IC's latest signed caricatures. BM 11543: "On W . T . Spencer's copy: ' T h e whole of this is by my father except the man on the ladder. GCk.' " Cohn (1305) : " T h e Bruton copy was autographed by G.C. as the joint work of his father and himself." Reid 119. Douglas 872. Wright, Hist, of C„ p. 492. Cavalry are slashing at citizens, knocking over women and children. They are accompanied by some who praise the little work involved, though well paid. One, said to be Burdett, wishes he had never begun the business. [629] LOUIS

XVI,

March 8-1793. Fores. I. Cruikshank del. BM 8312. T h e King bids farewell to his family in a prison room. His is the only portrait of the five. T h e others are the Queen, their son the Dauphin, daughter and Mme Elizabeth. [630] • L A W AND EQUITY. Or a peep at Nando's. May 14, 1787. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC del and/or sculp.] BM 7164: [?Kingsbury]. Thurlow, barefooted as a penitent but wearing the Chancellor's wig, approaches Nando's coffee house bar. Accused of adultery, he had claimed that he disapproved of the marriage ceremony. [631] NATURE.

Sepr. 12, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 16, p. 37. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8945. Nine character sketches of lawyers and judges. [632] [••LAW

SUIT GAIN'D

(A) / A

[635] LEGAL METHOD O F THRASHING OUT GRAIN

• L A S T INTERVIEW (THE) BETWEEN KING O F FRANCE, AND HIS F A M I L Y .

• L A W SKETCHES FROM

A satire on Necker's financial crisis on the eve of the Revolution. Louis points to the empty Treasury boxes, while Calonne and the Cardinal de Brienne depart with sacks full of coins. [634] LE ROI ESCLAVE OU LES SUJETS ROIS. Female patriotism. Oct. 31. 1789. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 7560. Removal of Louis XVI and his family from Versailles to Paris by Lafayette (much caricatured) and the National Guard, surrounded by armed women, one carrying a man's head on a pike.

LAW

SUIT

[636] or honest men taken for conspirators. April 15, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 9194: [?Ansell]. Attributed by Broadley to I. Cruikshank (2, list no. 534). T h e Attorney General tries to serve a paper on an editor (John Parry) in his printing office. He is informed that there is no editor there. A print of Bonaparte as a swaggering soldier shares the wall with one of the King torn and upside down. On April 4, the Attorney General brought in a bill for the regulation of newspapers, producing various treasonable documents. Tierney defended the editor of the Courier, which Pitt said was "giving information to the Directory of France." Sufficient stir resulted to provoke various articles pro and con.

LEGAL MISTAKE

(A)

[637]

LOST.]

Allen & West. Sept. 10, 1796. Ecc. Exc.: PI 19, p. 40. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc. BM 8948. In two compartments. Above, a jovial man walks off between two women; obsequious friends bow low, and the smiling counsel walk behind. Below, an old couple walk sadly, followed by two sour-looking lawyers, toward a barrister (?) with a sad expression.

(A) OR

forestallers & regraters reaping the fruits of their harvest. August 12, 1800. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9545. Profiteers vomit forth all sorts of produce, while a large figure (Chief Justice Kenyon) threshes grain with a flail, i.e., continues to enforce the repealed laws against forestallers and regraters.

LES SACREFICES [ s i c ] FORCES.

Aug. 19, 1789. Fores. Unsigned. ?I. Cruikshank] BM 7553. T h e meeting of the States General on Aug. 4, which brought the loss of feudal privileges for the aristocracy and the early emigration of the Comte d'Artois and his followers. This is satirized by imaginary reactions of Louis XVI and Queen and the Dauphin. [638]

[633] L E DEFECIT.

•LESSON FOR PRINCES

Nov. 12, 1788. Fores. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 7376.

Oct. 12, 1796. Fores. IC. BM 8824. 93

(A) .

T h e widespread hostility to the Prince of Wales, who had just been separated from the Princess, inspired this plate, showing him with Lady Jersey mounted behind him, approaching a gate marked " T o Goodwood." T h e Duke of Richmond bars the way with "Tell him I am not at home." Blocking a gate on the other side of the print, Barwell says, "Tell him I am going to set off for London." [639] or architecture taught by intuition or the carpeters [sic] soliloquy. May 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8015. A m a n is being flogged by two footmen, who say, " T h i s is too bad, the poor fellow is Dying." But his master replies, "I'll Horse W h i p you to Death if you don't keep on this hour or two." A lady walks off in distress, saying, " O h my Dear Chip I could have happy [sic] to have lived on Bread 8c Cheese with thee." T h e words of the title refer to Henry Holland, an architect portrayed here as a simple carpenter, who had worked on Carlton House and had built Sloane Street as a speculation. It was voted to lay before the House a copy of Holland's receipts and expenditure of Treasury issues. His habit of charging for measuring buildings in addition to the architect's fee was severely censured. LESSONS O F LOVE,

[640] L E T US ALL BE U N H A P P Y TOCETHER. a

mezzotint

(?), with 32 lines of verse. 12th May 1794. Laurie & Whittle. 317. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8596 names no artist and gives no indication even of a possible one. I have not seen the print. Four dejected-looking men are sitting around a table on which is an empty punch bowl. One is weeping, another turns over his glass, a third breaks his pipe. T h e first verse, the only one quoted in the BM reads: "We bipeds made u p of frail clay/AlasI are the people of sorrow/ And though brisk and merry today/We all may be wretched tomorrow." [641] L I E T * GOVE® GALLSTON'S

MONKEY

BREAKING

SIR

N.p., n.d. pi789] Design'd by Cruikshanks. BM 7723 has both colored and uncolored impressions. T h e Philip Thicknesse satirized here was a notorious character, a subject for all three of the leading caricaturists. His use of large doses of laudanum for gallstones was objected to, while the monkey postillion and the ape-like negroes in a hut indicate his low opinion of that race. SYDNEY'S APE.

[642] L I F E AND GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS (THE) OF T H E GALLANT GENERAL SIR J O H N MOORE, X.B.,

who fell at the Battle of Corunna, Jan. 16, 1809. With a particular account of his eminent services. Colored folding frontispiece. I. Cruikshank del. (aided by G C ) . [Book] 12mo. Pp [3]-24. London, Geo. Smeeton. N.d. [1810] Cohn 575. Douglas 322. Reid 5232. [643] L I F E AND TRIAL O F ELIZBETH CANNING.

Frontispiece: Cruikshank del. (Crudely engraved on plate.) Said to be by Isaac with some parts by George. "Two ruffians Inhumanly Beating and Dragging Elizabeth Canning to the house of Mother Wells." [Book] London. Pub. by W. Barrett (Sorrell, printer). 12mo. 30 pp. Blue paper cover. Price 6d. [644] ( T H E ) , containing an account of his parentage, assassinations, etc. By John Corry, Author of a Satirical View of London, etc. Frontispiece: Cruikshank sculp. A full-length portrait. Bonaparte. First Consul of the French R e p u b l i c Publish'd by G. Corry, Augt 1, 1803. Stipple. [Book] London. Crosby. 12mo. orig. wrappers. Pp. 36. 1803. Price 6d. T h e narrative starts with Bonaparte's birth, parentage, military education and retirement to Corsica, which he left with his family for Toulon, where he first distinguished himself. His successful campaigns (Italy, Egypt, etc.) (1801). T h e estimate of Napoleon's character is moderate and well done. "Very rare in original wrappers." Value (about thirty-five years ago) $15. • L I F E O F BONAPARTE

[645] L I F E O F LANSON.

?IC] Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767e. [646] LIFE O F J O H N P H I L I P KF.MBLE ESQUIRE . . . W I T H F A M I L Y AND THEATRICAL ANECDOTES.

Colored folding frontispiece of Kemble and the O.P. riots, signed I. Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. Lon: J. Johnston. N.d. [1809]. Cohn (459) gives a detailed description of two editions of this pamphlet published in the same year with slight differences. Chub-

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bock, p. 7, nos. 48, 49. In the second edition, pp. 1-64, (1809) the plate is in its second state, entitled "King John's First Appearance at the New Theatre Covent Garden." T h e phrase "O, My aitches!" now appears as issuing from Kemble's mouth. Either edition valued (1924) at £6. Also listed under Kemble, Esq. Life of John Philip ( T h e ) . Item 606.

T h e driver, holding open the door of a stagecoach, which is already overcrowded, tells a fat woman holding a dog that there is just room for one more. [652] L1LLIPUTAN [SIC] SATIRISTS

[647] L I F E O F PAUL JONES.

?IC] 'Chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767d. [648] •LIFE

O F T H E LATE MOST NOBLE FRANCIS DUKE

BEDFORD ( T H E ) . including the Speech of the Hon. Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons, March 16, 1802. Together with an Account of his [i]llness, death, and funeral, his agricultural improvements, flowing from the annual Sheep-shearing Meeting established by his Grace at Woburn: Political Characteristics and many other interesting particulars of that great and excellent man. Embellished with a Portrait of his Grace. IC. Oval colored portrait frontispiece, " T h e late most Noble Francis Duke of Bedford," unsigned but inscribed "From a drawing by my Father I. Cruikshank" in GC's handwriting. On the plate: Published March 24, 1802. J . Fairburn. 146. Minories. London. [Book] 8vo., 22 pages (incomplete?). London: J . Fairburn. 1802. Bought by me at a Parke-Bernet auction, November 18, 1958, item 142. See also Chubbock, p. 4, no. 22. OF

LILLIPUTIAN AUCTION

E

[654] Vide Page 14. Vol. IV. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. 12mo. (Lon.) J . Roach. Jan. 1, 1797. Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. A shepherd, with his crook, walks hand in hand with a girl, both gazing amorously at each other. In the back a similar pair are seated; sheep are grazing in hilly background. •LINA

[THE]

?IC. [Chapbook] 8vo. no data. (See [Chapbooks]. Eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale catalogue, p. 133, item 767.

AND TOBIA.

[650]

[655]

L I F E , TRIAL AND EXECUTION O F J O S E P H W A L L FOR

( T H E ) . A favourite ballad founded on fact. Songhead with 6 printed verses. Apr. 12, 1808. Laurie & Whittle. 486. [I.] Cruickshank Del. B M 11197. Cr. Momus p. 46: "Isaac & George Cruikshank." P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2769. A kindhearted damsel takes a half frozen chimney sweep from a doorstep to a warm house, and finds that he is her lost brother. •LITTLE

T H E W I L F U L MURDER OF BEN J . ARMSTRONG.

Etched frontispiece, in two sections, by IC. [Book] 8vo. J. Lee 1802. Cohn sale cat., no. 883b. [651] LICHT

SUMMER

TRAVELLING,

Only

six

[653] (A) . N.d. Tegg. Car. Mag.

(no number given). Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. Not found in BM. T h e auctioneer, not a Lilliputian, offers a ortrait of an ugly Queen Cleopatra painted y that great Egyptian master Corregio [sic], starting with the small sum of four thousand pounds. A bespectacled man, sitting on a stool in the foreground, reads from a Catalogue of Antiquities: "A piece of Noah's Ark, Alexander the Great's Knee Buckle, Julius Caesar's Wig." A purchaser, Sir Anthony Halfwit (has a Chinese Joss under his arm). Another, asking if the Cleopatra is an original, is told by the man that he saw it himself in Egypt. Several prospective buyers listen agape to the auctioneer and several employees promote sales in the crowd.

[649] LIFE OF WOLFE

(THE) .

June 22d 1797. Fores. Cruikshank del. BM 9088. Two ladies, with revealingly thin costumes, stroll arm in arm. Peter Pindar (Wolcot), plainly clothed, raises his hat to them. Eight lines of verse refer to them as "Ye precious Satyrists of Lilliput."

inside,

children half price. 1st September 1797. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 9111.

95

CHIMNEY

SWEEP

[656] L I T T L E F A R T H I N C RUSH L I G H T

[661] (A) !! Septr. 26, 1806. [In my copies one is watermarked "Whatman 1804," the other is not watermarked. A late state was issued in 1816.] Tegg. Plate 5. Woodward del. [I. and G.] Cruikshank sp. BM 10663. Cohn 1328. Douglas (1849): "In G.C.'s writing I.C. & G.C.' " P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2434. In my copies, the costumes are as usual in different colors. On Spencer's copy was inscribed, "Etched by my father, I. Cruikshank, the little figures in the background by me, G.C." A group of these fantastically long-headed people is seen at cards and dancing.

(THE) .

• • L O N G HEADED ASSEMBLY

Octr 3, [? 1799]. Fores. IC. BM 8283 notes that George wrote on Spencer's copy (1931), "Not by me nor my Father, G. Ck." Yet there is a small signed IC on the plate. Wright (Hist, of C., p. 492), who omits the "Little," calls it an IC. T h e flame from a taper, which stands on a crown, depicts the head of George III. It burns steadily in spite of the puffs directed at it by the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Sheridan, Fox and Grey. [656a]

[662]

L I T T L E H U M P B A C K ( T H E ) DINING W I T H T H E TAYLOR [SIC] IS CHOKED W I T H A FISH BONE.

• L O N G HEADED ELECTION

[657] An original tale by Dr. King. May 25, 1801. Laurie & Whittle. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank] Spencer's (1929) copy was thought by him to be by IC. Not found in BM.

LITTLE MOUTHS.

[663]

[658] [LONDON CHARACTER

•LONG

• L O N G EXPECTED C O M E AT LAST, or John Bull disapointed [sic] at his crippled visitor. April 3rd. 1802. Fores. Unsigned. PIC del and/or sculp.] BM 9852: [Williams]. Spencer (1922) attributes this to IC. Peace, a female, is shown with a peg leg marked "Cape of Good Hope," and a patch which has "Malta" over one eye. Other defeats are marked on a sling and on her pack. She is received harshly by John Bull and his wife.

(A).

or the return of Ld. Lauderdale, [ca. Oct. 1806] Tegg. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. BM 10604. A number of financiers wearing top hats and tricorns on their fantastically long heads. News of Lord Lauderdale's return to England when the peace negotiations were broken off was received with joy on the Royal Exchange.

[659]

[660]

MINUET!!

[664] •LONG

REFINEMENT.

Jan. 1, 1787. Fores. Unsigned. [PRowlandson del. PIC sc.] BM 8260 mentions no artist. Grego (1. 199) attributes it to Rowlandson. A companion piece to "Country simplicity." A fop strides along with an affected gait, looking back at one of his feet.

HEADED

Feb. 13, 1807. Tegg. (243.) N 12. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. Not found in BM. The usual grotesque of these queer types. One pair dancing.

(A) ]

Original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank (?). "Made by him at the age of 81" written by George on the back of the drawing. The impossible age given may have been an error either by the aged George or by the catalogue printer. From Woodin sale catalogue, p. 69, item 248.1. (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942, 7 J / 4 X 5 »/4 in. •LONDON

(A) .

[?Nov. 1806] Tegg. 108. Woodward del. [?I.C. sc.] BM 10610: pWilliams f.] Though IC engraved most of the "longheaded" plates, BM's attribution here to pWilliams] may be correct. The engraving is inferior, the profiles heavily lined, and so on. The candidate, Solomon Sheepface, "is so harmless he would not harm a worm."

I.C. An original signed drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 185.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). Ca. 13x16 in.

HEADS

UPON

CHANGE,

[665] • L O N G P U L L STRONG PULL (A) .

Jan. 9th, 1783. Humphrey. Unsigned. piC] BM 6165 assigned no artist. The stiff figures are not altogether characteristic of IC's work, though his style was undeveloped at this early period, at which also many caricatures were not signed. If by IC, it might be evidence that he reached London before 1784, or else that he had forwarded the design from Scotland. Lord Shelburne, in the doorway of the Treasury, resists the efforts of Fox, Keppel, Richmond and Burke to pull him out. 96

[666] LONG STRING OF RESOLUTIONS FOR A NEW (A).

YEAR

J a n . 2, 1792. Fores. Designed by G. M. Woodward. Etched by I. Cruikshank. Oblong 8vo. Sixteen figures by IC. in a long folding plate (about 6 feet). (See comment on page twenty-four.) In Spencer's shop (1929) and in Chubbock's list (no. 6 ) . Valued by Spencer at £6 ( 1 9 2 9 ) . [667] LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE OF WARLEY CAMP

IN

THE SUMMER OF 1795. J u n e 26th 1802. (Probably a reissue from 1795.) H . Humphrey. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 8662. A tall officer with a long nose standing with drawn sword represents L o r d Salisbury (see plate, " P o l o n i u s " ) . T o the right is a short fat officer with hand on hilt of sword (General Grant). LOO.

[668]

20th Febr 1796. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 168. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] B M 8922. Five persons playing at cards. One holds out the knave of clubs, the card that ranked highest in this card game: " P a m saves m e . "

A beautiful, fashionably dressed young lady sits gazing into a standing pier glass. She is surrounded by cosmetics, a parasol, a harp and similar objects. [672] LORD CHANCELLOR

Original pencil sketch. Unsigned. (/. Cruikshank Senr del't, in a contemporary writing in i n k ) . ?ca. 1792, the year he was dismissed as Chancellor. See Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 26 ( 1 9 1 0 - e d . ) . P.U.M.C.: Cruik I E 2736. A full-length sketch, carefully and artistically drawn, of the Chancellor, standing before his throne in his long official robe, full wig, knee breeches and pumps. H e has a handsome, if severe, countenance, and a dignified demeanor. H e holds a rolled document in one hand. T h e Great Mace lies on a table to his right. Rich draperies are looped behind him, disclosing a large window through which is seen a porch and a Greek column. T h e sketch, which may well have been made in preparation for a portrait, was probably done about 1792, but possibly at any time u p to his death in 1806. On the back is a beginning of a sketch of an officer shrinking back with hands upraised. [673] LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO HIS SON ON MEN

AND MANNERS; to which is added Franklin's way to wealth, etc. Engraved frontisp. [I] Cruikshank del. S. Davenport sculp, also vignette on engraved title page. Reid 1, 4685. [Bookl 12mo. Lon. G. Walker. Sold by J . Cranwell, 8cc. (Reid, 8616, 0816, says. "First edition with these illustrations.") Douglas 574. T h e frontispiece shows a street scene with a "twaddler" fixing his writhing victim. A motto says, "Never hold people by the button."

[669] LOOKING GLASS IN DISCRACE (THE) . T i t l e w r i t t e n

on mount in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. A n original watercolor, "signed by the artist." F r o m the W o o d i n sale cat., item 246.11 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1 9 4 2 ) . 11X8i/ 2 in. [670] LOOKING GLASS IN DISGRACE.

1804. Fores. Unsigned. Caries., 7, 233. [Isaac Cruikshank] BM 11660 "[about 1810?]." This may have been a reissue of the 1804 print. An aquatint. See original watercolor with same title (previous i t e m ) . A virago glares at a looking glass that she has broken with her curling tongs.

[674] LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADVICE TO HIS SON, ON MEN

AND MANNERS; in which the Principles of Politeness, and the Art of Acquiring a Knowledge of the world, are laid down in An Easy and Familiar Manner. T o which are added, a Selection of De la Rochefoucauld's Maxims. Frontispiece and engraved title by I. Cruikshank. Same subject as 673. [Book] 12mo. Pp. i v + 9 2 . Chiswick: F r o m the Press of C. Whittingham, College House. Sold by R . Jennings, Poultry [London], T . T e g g . . . and J . Sutherland, Edinburg. 1820. Douglas 575. Not in Reid. A.S.W.R., p. 209. Note the differences in date and publisher from preceding item.

[671] LOOKING GLASS IN FAVOUR

(THE) . N o p u b .

THURLOW.

N.d.

[?ca. 1810] Unsigned. Caries., 7, 232. [?I. Cruikshank.] B M 11659: " A companion plate to the preceding item, B M 11660 [ T h e Looking Glass in Disgrace]." Aquatint. 1 1 % 6 x 8 y 6 in. (including b o r d e r ) . Available information does not permit assignment of proper dates for this pair.

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[675]

or the British tars giving the Carmignols a dressing on memorable 1st of June 1794. June 25, 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8471. A similar punning title, "OhI Lord Howe they run," (BM 6037) had already been used on a cartoon some ten years earlier (Nov. 2, 1784). Two ragged sans-culottes are routed by two sailors, while others are on the ground or fleeing in terror. LORD HOWE T H E Y RUN,

[676] LORD

MUM

OVERWHELMED

WITH

PARISIAN

EM-

BRACES.

N[ov] 7, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8830. Hennin, no. 12294. Fishwives drag along Lord Malmesbury's coach and kiss him through the window. Actually, after such a scene at Evreux, the Directory saw to it that he entered Paris undisturbed. This cartoon follows closely a Gillray (BM 8828) published ten days earlier. [677] LORD

MUM

SUCKINC

HIS

THUMBll

Novr 10, 1796. Fores. IC. BM 8832. Lord Malmesbury on his peace mission can only answer "No" or " I don't know" to Delacroix's questions. [678] •LORD O F T H E VINEYARD

(THE) .

Apr. 3d, 1783. Humphrey. Unsigned. [PIC sculp.] BM 6204: [Gillray]. Grego: Gillray pp. 46-7. The style of the figures suggests that Gillray's design was engraved by Cruikshank. Against, is the date earlier than IC's generally accepted arrival in London. Fox (with a fox's head) and North, waiting outside the door of the vineyard, receive a large bunch of grapes from Portland, the new Prime Minister, who tells them to take it between them. [679] •LORD SOPFSUDS WASHING FOUL LINEN FOR GOOD O F T H E NATION.

THE

April 1. 1782. E. Dachery. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 5969 names no artist. T h e style, while not characteristic, possibly because of the early date, bears certain resemblances to that of Isaac. Spencer (in 1922) guaranteed it to be an IC. It is included here though an unexpected possibility, no other satire print by Isaac being known of this early date. Lord North is at a washtub, a fox on the floor biting "the Budgett." Three women are looking on. North's profile is neither in cari-

cature nor in the convention used for his pictorial satire. [680]

Title derived from the text, p. 100. December 3, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 40. (p. not numbered). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8967. One man has his gouty foot on a stool, the other a gouty arm swathed in bandages. Both are tormented by a fly sporting in a shaft of sunlight.

[•LORDS O F T H E CREATION.]

[681] Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing, "signed by the artist." From Woodin sale cat., item 247.14. (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). lSs^xlOi/g in. A satire on how to obtain a seat in Parliament.

LOSING

MY

SEAT!

LOST CHILD ( T H E )

[682] . Original pen and water color

(12s/8X97/8 in.) [Isaac Cruikshank] ca. 1790. Victoria and Albert Museum, Dept. of Paintings, no. 1704-1871. T h e parlor of a house is shown, in which the father of the family is offering a purse to the town crier. The mother is seated, giving him instructions while comforting a small boy, and a girl stands beyond a table wiping tears from her eyes. The town crier has in his hand a paper on which can be read; "A Child Lost 3 years old . . . white Frock." See " T h e Child Found" (item 156), a companion piece.

[683] After the Spanish, composed by Mr. Josh Major, the author of Old Nick. Song sheet (3 verses, given below, are engraved in italics on the plate). Octr. 1, 1807. Laurie and Whittle. A droll. 71 (on my print) ; 474 (in the BM list). Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10953. Seen in Spencer's collection in 1922 and 1938. Though attributed, without question, to IC by the BM, most of the figures are not characteristic of his work. Cupid and Folly more nearly resemble it. A gay procession through a church yard is headed by Folly leading Cupid. T h e verses read: 1. Love disagreeing once with Folly,/ Folly treated him unkind;/For 'tis a fact most melancholy,/That he beat the urchin blind./ For vengeance Venus, sigh'd to heav'n,/As she sought the Courts above./Into the chancery was she driven,/On her breast, lay little Love./ 2. "Behold," she cried, "great Justice giver./ •LOVE AND F O L L Y .

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[Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday. N.d. Bound with five others. (See [Chapbooks] Several bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 1120, no. 769b.

"Cupid now how blind and d a r k ; / " W h a t use hence forth shall be his quiver,/"What his hope to hit the mark?/"His wings in vain his body raising,/"He no more can take a flight,/"His torch, however brightly blazing,/"Gives to him no ray of light."/ 3. Silent at length, for Justice waiting,/Venus hung her hapless love;/The Court concluded soon debating,/And the Sentence came from Jove/It is decreed that Folly, never/Shall in future quit his side,/But from this instant and forever/Be to love a constant guide. [684] LOVE AND HYMEN or the Lady's and Gentleman s Polite Valentine Writer. Colored folding frontispiece by IC. [Book] 8vo. W. Perks. N.d. Cohn sale cat., no. 840. [685]

[690] •LUNAR SPECULATIONS.

May 3d, 1803. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del. a n d / o r sc.] BM 9988: [PWilliams]. A fold across most of the engraving, done before the hand coloring, indicates in this copy a time lag between the two steps. Napoleon and J o h n Bull both resemble IC's conventional style—John Bull especially. Napoleon, looking at the moon through a telescope, fancies the title, "Emperor of the Full Moon." A jolly J B reminds him of his inability to reach even England. T h e engraving has a timely association with today's space researches.

•LOVE AND LEARNING.

January 27, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 56, p. 129. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9120. An amorous Oxonian fondles an attractive laundry maid, as they sit with his dog beneath a tree.

[686] LOVE IN A STONE COFFIN.

Isaac Crookshanks. Clare Market. J a n 23, 1785. IC. BM 8247: "Name and address almost obliterated." A man steps inside a carved coffin to join a dissolute lady. Another watches from behind the broken wall of a ruined Gothic church. This is one of several cartoons on a subject that is said to have political significance. [6871 LOW LIFE, or one half of the world know not how the other half live. Colored frontispiece by IC. [Book] 8vo. R. Rusted. N.d. Cohn sale cat., (no. 841) : "Very scarce."

[688] , or returning from the review on the fourth of June, 1800. J u n e 5, 1800. Fores. In my two copies, one is uncolored, the other with clothes in many colors, the rain is in blue. Cruikshank del. BM 9582. T h e comments from the pedestrians are not included in the colored copy. They add but little to the entertainment given by the cartoon. [689] • • L O Y A L DUCKING (THE)

LUBIN AND ROSETTA.

Frontispiece by IC.

[691] (A) —Lamb chops and r u m p steaks. Apr. 26, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8168. A man and woman embracing. Gibside was the house of George Bowes, father-in-law of Lord Strathmore. A social scandal is suggested. LUNCHEON

AT GIBSIDE

[692] Songhead to seven (printed) verses. February 14, 1809. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 506. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank del.] BM 11521. Douglas 1815. A.S.W.R., p. 216. A countryman in Hyde Park is passed by a girl with a parasol, who turns to stare at him. LUNNON

IS

THE

DEVIL.

[693] • M A D TOM'S FIRST RIGHTS OF MAN.

PRACTICAL

ESSAY

ON

THE

May 14, 1792. Fores. IC. BM 8087. Reproduced in "Social England," 1904, V, 666. Payne, aided by Whitbread and Sheridan, is attempting to start a fire in the House of Commons. A satire based on the finding a week before of smouldering breeches in a closet. [694] MAGISTERIAL VISIT (A) .

No[v] 17, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8686. A Justice of the Peace tells three men drinking punch at a table that he comes to see if there is any sedition in the punch bowl. T h i s refers to the Convention Bill for preventing seditious meetings. See also "One of the Family," item 853, published a month later on this subject.

99

[695] , or Mac in her Teens. Novr 21. 1792. Fores. Unsigned. 8-9/10x12*4 in. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8176 gives reasons why the lady can scarcely be a Mrs. Macaulay. An overdressed, evil-smelling harridan is supported by two footmen, one of whom carries several books on amorous subjects, ancient and modern. Another says, "She stinks like a polecat." A young buck, looking at her with a monocle, quotes ironically; "Grace is in her steps," etc. T h e lady has not been identified. MAID O F

BATH

(THE)

[700] • M A K I N G A SAILOR AN ODD F E L L O W ! !

Deer 1, 1806. Tegg. N. 8. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. BM 10899, gives date of Dec. 1, 1812 [date altered, ? 18071. T h e BM print is numbered 109 (i.e., as belonging to a different series than mine). There were several reissues (1807, 1812, 1816): this 109 with an 1816 watermark, and perhaps others). T h e Jack T a r protests against suspected attempts to frighten him with goggle eyes and masks.

[696]

[701]

. Song heading with (engraved) verses. Septr 15, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 471. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10950. A young woman languishes outside a cottage. Her death is described in the verses. M A I D W H O DIED FOR LOVE

(THE)

[697] . Songhead to printed verses. Sung by Mr. Mathews. 15th Jan. 1810. Richd H. Laurie. A droll. 512. Unsigned. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 11698. Cohn 1711. Douglas 1817. T h e passengers are snatching a quick meal at the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly. T h e guard, horn in hand, speaks to a lady holding a caged parrot, while the coachman waits outside.

MAIL-COACH

COACH

GUARD.

[699] MAJOR

IN

THE

MOON

[702]

(THE)

[698] Sung by Mr. Fawcett at Covent Garden on St. David's Day. May 1, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] Not in BM. Cohn 1712. Douglas 1802. Reid 57. This engraving also appears as the frontispiece of "The Musical Olio"—item 786 in my list. T h e coach stops at the Rose Inn for refreshments. T h e coachman takes his glass with a damsel on the box, and the guard makes love to the waitress as the hostess brings him a drink. MAIL

( T H E ) , or Consular observations. Sept. 1803. Holland. Unsigned. [PIC] Not found in BM catalogue. Bonaparte, hopping in the full moon, curses at seeing a Royal Army landing in France from many ships while he has been building castles in the moon. •MAN

MaCPHERSON

AND

MISS

LAVINIA

SCOTT.

Song to (engraved) verses. Sung by Mr. Banister. Apr. 6. 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 462. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10943. She looks scornfully at the officer, who is feeling a razor blade. T h e song develops how, instead of cutting his throat, he will cut his corns.

MAN-MID-WIFE

(A) .

June 15, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8376. (BM 8376a is a copy by another artist with some slight changes.) A protest against male obstetricians as endangering female modesty, though the matter had been settled by the profession and the public more than a generation earlier. [703] ( T H E ) !! Title on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC] An original pen and ink drawing. Of this group "all but 2 of 13 signed with initials." [? 1802]. From the Woodin sale cat., item 249.13 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 95^X14i/2 in. "A political cartoon caricaturing the victory of the Times over the other newspapers." MANAGER

IN DESPAIR

[704] •MANAGER

IN DESPAIR

(THE) .

April 1802. T . Brown. Unsigned. [IC] BM 9920. No artist named, but see preceding item with the above title, a signed original drawing. Sheridan, in Spanish dress, declaims to Hanger, who had written to the Press defending the Pic Nic Society. He asks Hanger (who shows him a Times bill—"The second representation of the Pic-Nic went off with great eclat"): "Say am I doomed to see Pic-Nic succeed and my paragraphs prove vain." 100

[705] •MANAGER'S LAST KICK

(THE) , o r a n e w w a y

to

pay old debts. N.d., no pub. Unsigned. [?IC1 Not found in BM catalogue. In pencil, beyond plate mark a doubtful "IC." This print is not characteristic of any of the Cruikshanks. After "Price one shilling" there is a faint "Colchester." The Manager, Mr. Catchpole, is disappearing through a trap door in the stage, to the amusement of the actors and orchestra. A paper, marked "Red Tail," falls from the hand of a man who is addressing him. The explanation of the plate is obscure. [706] • M A N N E R OF CROSSING THE FIRST RIVER IN PEAK

April. 8. 1797. Allen fc Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 94. (No page given.) Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this plate. One of a party of eight lies in a very small boat which is being pulled across the river. The others, four with candles in their hats, await their turn. [707] HOLE.

background two buildings with windows and roofs filled with waving onlookers. [711] •MARTYRDOM OF LOUIS XVI, KING O F FRANCE.

I

forgive my Enemies. I die Innocent! 11 Feby. 1, 1793. Fores. I. Cruikshank Int. BM 8297. The King (a portrait) speaks from the platform on which the guillotine is seen. Actually, his words were inaudible, drowned out by the drums. [712] •MARTYRDOM OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE (THE) .

Octr. 16: 1793. Octr. 28. 1793. Fores. Cruikshank. BM 8344: Reproduced by Gower (Iconographie de la Reine Marie Antoinette, Paris, 1883, p. 97.) The Queen, in black, speaks from a platform, with part of the guillotine showing. Three distressed women are seen below the scaffold, also some of the National Guard, mounted. House windows are filled with spectators. [713]

• M A N N E R OF PASSING THE SECOND RIVER IN PEAKE

• M A R Y ROBERTSON O F BUTTERMEAR

April 15, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 96. (No page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this plate. The same party as in Plates 93 and 96 wade across the river, three of them carried piggy back by guides. [708] •MANSION HOUSE TREAT (A) , or Smoking Attitudes! Nov. 18, 1800. Fores. ICks. BM 9550. The Lord Mayor (Sir William Staines) entertains five guests, all smoking. Names, written in pencil, include Nelson, Sir William and Lady Hamilton (with salacious remarks about their pipes), and Pitt, whose pipe smoke suggests smoking the Cits again for another loan.

[IC] (unsigned). A charming original watercolor portrait sketch in color. Bought from Grasberger, 1924. Guaranteed by him as an Isaac Cruikshank. 11x12 in. A pensive young woman, elbow resting on a rock, with lake scene in background. Her name is written in ink below the painting, in IC's (?) handwriting. On the back, in a somewhat later hand, is written "Mary Robertson at Buttermear. No. 466. I. Cruikshank Senr. Delt." The sensitive artistry and rich coloring make this an important indication of IC's artistic power.

HOLE.

[709] MARTIN'S VALENTINE WRITER.

pic] [Chapbook.] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chapbooks] Six bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 114, item 768a. [710] •MARTYR OF EQUALITY (THE) . Behold the Progress of our System. Feb. 12, 1793. Fores. I. Cruikshank s. BM 8302. Orleans holding up the decapitated head of Louis. The King's body lies on the guillotine. Below are the National Guard, and in the

MASQUERADE

(A)

[SIC].

[714] . Title written on mount by

Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 244.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 6y s x9y 4 . A scaly Neptune, holding a trident, is casting eyes at Diana, who does not seem averse. The other characters are "finely delineated." [715] , or high life above stairs! June 18, 1799. Ackermann. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. Not found in BM catalogue. A different subject from preceding item. All the characters wear masks or masquerad•MASQUERADE

101

(A)

ing costumes. Some of them make gibing or punning remarks about the others. [716] Augt 12, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. Printed verses: Sung with great applause by Mr. Dowton, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in his "Summer Excursion." A droll. 469. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 216. BM 10949. A man and woman ("Frost and Snow") are hit by water hurled at them by an old man ("The Wicked Thaw"), who is smoking a pipe. On their side of the print (r.) one sees skaters and a snowy landscape; on the other (1.) the country deluged with rain. MASTER FROST AND MISS SNOW.

[717] . Octr. 10. 1797. Laurie & Whittle. Caries., 2, 146. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank del.] BM 9838: "Number and imprint cropped." A.S.W.R., p. 213. When the husband asks his pretty wife what she is puzzling about, she answers that she is hoping to puzzle out who could be the one he had said was the only one in their street who was not a cuckold. Meanwhile, a handsome young officer opens the door, without being seen by either. M A T R I M O N I A L PUZZLE (A)

[718] MAY DAY—or Jack in the green. 20th June, 1795. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 153. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8772. An elderly pair is dancing to the fiddling of a man with a wooden leg. Behind, a grinning face peers out of the greenery, supported on the feet of the Jack in the Green. Other pairs dance in the background. A four-line verse, beneath the title, celebrates May Day. [719] (A) . [1794?] Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From Woodin sale cat., item 248.12 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 5s/8x4 in.

MEDICAL CONSULTATION

[720] (A) , or a little mistake. Jany 1st, [1803]. [Laurie 8c Whittle?] The name of the publisher was cropped in the BM copy. Caries., 2, 128. [I.l Cruikshank 1803. BM 10351. In the Hughes copy, was inscribed "From a drawing by my father not by me. G.Ck." A Lord with his Lady, passing a tailor and his wife, asks the latter his name. The tailor, embarrassed, says "I—I—I made your breeches." "Oh," says the Lord, "I am very happy to see Major Bridges." One of IC's best jokes. M E E T I N G AT MARGATE

[721] • M E E T I N G O F CREDITORS (A) .

April 3, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8634. The Prince of Wales is assailed by numerous female creditors, after Parliament has arranged to pay his debts before his marriage to Princess Caroline of Brunswick. [722] MELTING

MOMENTS.

3d Octr. 1795. Laurie & Whittle. 162. Caries., 2, 140. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8775. Compare the "Pastimes of Primrose Hill" print (item 879), with an almost identical treatment. Here, twelve lines of verse describe the lady's dilemma. [723] M E M B E R O F T H E FRENCH WAR D E P A R T M E N T RAISING FORCES [SIC] T O CONQUER ALL T H E WORLD.

Novr. 2, 1793. Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8345. The member of the War Department sits on the devil's knee, blowing bubbles for aiming at most of Europe, still to be conquered. Carnot's levée en masse had been ordained August 23. [724] •MEMBER

OF THE

RIDING

HOUSE

AT PARIS

DELIVERING AN HARANGUE F R O M T H E O F A FRENCH

(A)

SHOULDERS

CITIZEN.

Aug. 1799. Holland. Unsigned. [?IC] Not in BM catalogue. A French soldier, with a long whip, rides a citizen who tells Jackey Bull to realize when he is well off. The rider warns the club to keep clear of the jockeys Suwarrow and the Archduke. [725] or a sketch of modern dissipation in London. By John Corry. Frontispiece (stipple) :Cruikshank del. Landin sc. (Title) "Let it now burn to its foundations" exclaimed Edward. (See p. 57.) [Book] London. B. Crosby et al. [1803]. 72 pp. 7x4 y2 in. Price 1 shilling. •MEMOIRS

OF

EDWARD T H O R N T O N ,

[726] M E M O I R S O F SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.

By Thomas Tegg. Colored portrait (of Burdett) by IC. [Book] 12mo. London. Tegg. N.d., no. of pages not given. Cohn sale cat., no. 877b. ~ 102

[727] T h e last dying words of the eighteenth century. Colored frontispiece by IC. London. 1800. See Chubbock's list, p. 3, no. 19. MERRY

[Book] 8vo. Pp. 5-42. Blue paper wrappers. 5 | 4 x 3 in. Some leaves watermarked 1798. London. M. Allen. 1803. BM 10492 describes the (untitled) frontispiece. An alehouse scene, including seven topers and two women with a dog in the foreground. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I 1803. Reid 5231. Cohn (556): "(1805). Frontispiece sd. IC"; but Douglas (316) ascribed some of the work to GC. Later this was rejected by George.

ANDREW.

[728] co ROUND (A) . [ca. March 1802] N.p. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9847: "A print with little relation to fact." Bonaparte plays a fife and tabor, to which the Powers of Europe dance. MERRY

[734] hints to young gentlemen. By Messrs. Blackwood & Co. J u n e 5, 1807. Fores. I. Cks. BM 10740. Reid 29. T w o copies (colored and uncolored) in my collection. Note the stippling on the faces. Mrs. Clarke collects from young officers (£700 for a majority), who leap toward her over old crippled veterans. A satire on the Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke's role in buying promotions. • • M I L I T A R Y LEAPFROG—or

[729] •MESSENGER O F PEACE

(THE) .

Octr 29, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8829. Lord Malmesbury and his retinue make humble obeisance to three supercilious members of the French Directory. Gillray had a caricature appearing the day before this one, which lionized Malmesbury. Isaac's hit nearer the mark, for Malmesbury two months later was ordered to leave France within forty-eight hours. [730] G. A. Stevens in his Lecture on Heads. October 10, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8379. A melancholic head, with twisted features and disordered hair, is seen in a tub which the lecturer holds on a table. Stevens died in 1784, but his lecture continued to be published until METHODIST

October 8, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 24, p. 58. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8953. A poor miller with a sack for a saddle rides a lean, dejected horse.

PARSON.

1821.

[731] MIDDLESEX

[735] [ • • M I L L E R AND HORSE]

ELECTION

CONSIDERED

(THE) , a n d

a

brief view of Sir F. Burdett's conduct and character. London [1800]. Colored frontispiece by IC, "sketched from Nature." In Chubbock (p. 3, no. 20) and P.U.M.C.: Cruik I, 1800. [Book] 12mo. Pp. [5]-34, also a leaf of an advertisement of Mrs. Billington by G. M. Woodward. London, P. Roberts. N.d. [1800]. [732] MIDNIGHT HORRORS.

?IC] Chapbook] (See [Chapbooks] Five bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat. p. 113, item 1765. [733] or a nocturnal ramble through St. Giles, containing a funny, but faithful, picture of that quarter. Frontispiece by IC (on hood of fireplace). •MIDNIGHT MERRIMENT,

[736] Songhead (four engraved verses). Dec. 12th, 1804. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 378. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10360. P.U.M.C.: (Cruik IE 2655). Reid 4488. Douglas 1801. Cohn (1735) : "Probably almost entirely the work of I. Cruikshank." T h e Devil flies off with the tailor, who holds a roll of cloth under his arm. T h e song tells how the miller was drowned in his dam, and the weaver hanged in his yarn. MILLER

( T H E ) , WEAVER, TC L I T T L E TAILOR.

[737] ( T H E ) —to catch those who traffic in places seats in Parliament 8cc &c. May 1st 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11329. Perceval had brought in a Sales of Offices Prevention Bill. T h e plate shows him going to a rat with a human head, caught in a trap baited with a money bag. John Bull, looking through a window, calls it a rum job for partners to set traps to catch each other. [738] MISERIES O F H U M A N L I F E . Being mounted on a beast, etc. N.d. Tegg, no. 237. Caries., 4, p. 11, item 52. [?I.] Cruikshank. A.S.W.R., p. 11. MINISTERIAL

103

RAT TRAPS

This lottery puff (3x5 inches) is crudely printed. It is inscribed by George Cruikshank, "This is by my Father, I. C k — . " [745] MISS WRINKLE. As sung by Miss Tyrer. Heading to [engraved] verses. March 12, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 459. Caries., 2, 133. [I.] Cruickshanks [sic] del. BM 10940. Another version, Miss Wrinkle and the Thatcher, in smaller size, was published, n.d., by Fairburn. A spinster kneels in her attic praying for a husband. A thatcher asks if he will do; she answers, "Lord thy will be donel I'm content." [746] MISTLETOE (THE) —A Christmas tale. 12th Septr 1800. Laurie & Whittle. Verses (in 3 columns) signed Laura Maria. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9661 gives no artist's name. An elderly farmer, sitting in his kitchen, angrily watches his wife being kissed under the mistletoe by a handsome young man. The others of the party look on with varied reactions. [747]

[7S9] "During the endless time that you are kept waiting in a carriage while the ladies are shopping having your impatience soothed by the setting of a saw close at your ear." N.d. [?1808] [Tegg] Caries., 10, 209. Woodward del. Cruckshanks [sic] sc. BM 11152. Beside the coach a man sharpens a saw, to the intense annoyance of the man inside. The two ladies discuss a purchase with an obsequious shopman. [740] •MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. "Inviting a friend vhom you know to be particularly fond of e dish) to partake of a fine hare, haunch, 8cc., which you have endeavored to keep exactly to the critical moment, but which is no sooner brought in than the whole party with one noose order it to be taken out." p i 8081 [Tegg 244.] Woodward del. Cruckshanks [sic] sc. BM 11151. Five people at the dinner table. As the footman brings in the dish, the cook in the doorway registers amusement. 'MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE.

S

[741]

MODERN ATLASS [SIC] (THE) .

"Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair!!" N.d. [1808?] Tegg. 237. Woodward del. Cruckshanks [sic] sc. BM 11150. A companion plate to nos. 11151, 11152 with the same signatures. These three are almost identical with three of the forty-nine plates of the Rowlandson series (published by Ackermann, 1807-1808). Details of this series are given in BM, Vol. 8, pp. 581-597. The man jumps up from a chair on which is an angry cat and her kitten. All the family are disturbed. [742] MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Treading in a bear trap. Tegg. no. 264. Carie. Mag., Vol. 3, 1821, etc. Woodward del. [?I.] Cruikshanks del. [sic]. A.S.W.R., p. 8, item 33. •MISERIES OF HUMAN

Apr. 6 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 7840. The Prince of Wales is carrying the Opera House on his head (i.e., supporting it against the rival Pantheon). Sheridan and other small figures are looking from a window and skylights. [748] MODERN CIRCE (THE) , or a sequel to the petticoat! March 14, 1809. Fores. E. Delaney del. [I.] Cruikshank Sep. BM 11252: I.C. scp.] Mrs. Clarke, with features coarsened, uses the Duke of York's cloak to cover a lot of men trying to get promotion. [749]

LIFE.

MODERN GULLIVER REMOVING THE P LILLIPUT (THE) .

[743] MISS HIBERNIA AT J O H N BELL'S FAMILY DINNER.'.'

Mar. 8, 1799. Fores. Woodward del. IC. Spencer list (1913), no. xxx. Parke-Bernet sale (5/6/42). A political cartoon. [744] MISS PEGGY. A country girl you see before you, who wants a husband not a little. Unsigned. ICk.

RL

T OF

Janry 1800. Aitkin. Unsigned. I. Cruikshank] BM 9507. itt, moving the Irish Parliament to England, steps across from Dublin to the English coast, where Dundas encourages him with capers. [750] MODERN HANNIBALS (THE) —or—petty coat valour Mar. 29, 1791. Fores. Monitor Delint. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8024. A young woman "holds up" three foppish young men.

104

[751] , or a finishing blow for poor John Bull. Nov. 17, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8687: TPWest], Pitt towers above John Bull, who staggers under a huge load of taxes. Pitt's club, marked "Convention Bill," is raised to strike John.

MODERN HERCULE:

[755] clerical improvements R o [sic] wigs a l'eveque. April 2, 1798. I. Dow. (Fores imprint erased) Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9301. A scantily clad denseuse hides some of her nudity with the wig of Bishop Barrington, who walks off saying that she should be as choice of her charms as he is of his claret. [756]

(A)

MODERN

[752] ( T H E ) !! T h e leviathan among all the creatures of the Crown. He tumbles about his unwieldy bulk; he plays and frolicks in the icean of the Royal bounty, etc. Mar. 8, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8788. A huge fish with the head of the Duke of Bedford plays in the Ocean of the Royal Bounty. Burke, with pen in hand, sitting on a fallen tree trunk, laments his misfortunes and the loss of his only son. This plate has been mentioned as an example of Isaac's precedence over Gillray, who had a similar cartoon on Bedford the following November 16. T h e present Duke of Bedford in his very candid family story, "A Silver-Plated Spoon" (Doubleday, 1959) refers to the Leviathan incident, the inspiration of this cartoon 167 years ago. •MODERN

LEVIATHAN

[753] Sweet fruits of the third honey moon!! May 6—1800. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9576. A satire on the third marriage of Lord Abercorn on April 3, 1800, to Lady Anne Hatton. T h e others in the print are his first wife, with her three daughters, and his second wife, who ran away in 1798 with his brother-in-law. He was commonly known as Bluebeard. A man with horns on his forehead puts a ring on a young woman's finger, who points to an alcove (altar) containing a satyr and two goats. T h e copy in the Houghton Library (Harvard) has attached to it a letter from the Keeper of Prints, BM, 1873 to W. F. Wyndham describing this print. M O D E R N MARRIAGE A LA M O D E .

[754]

•MODERN

MODERN MODE O F BEATING U P FOR VOLUNTEERS!

PUNCH MAKER

(THE) .

Feb. 20, 1806. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10532. Reid 71. Douglas 767. T h e King mixes a punch, with suggestions from Erskine, the Chancellor, who likes the brandy (with Sheridan's face in the labelled bottle) but not the lemon (features of F o x ) . Decanters contain Water (Ellenborough in a judge's wig) and R u m (Windham). [757] MODERN WHITF.WASHERS

( T H E ) !!

March 20, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11263. Reid 71. Douglas 767. T h e Duke of York, seated on a stool marked "Honour of a Prince," is being smeared with whitewash by four men. He has been painted black by Mrs. Clarke and Colonel Wardle, who hold black brushes. John Bull says to Mrs. Clarke that it looks droll to try to make the blackamoor white. She answers that rogues always paint Old Nick white. (Cp. "Washing the Blackamoor," by IC. July 24, 1795.) [758] M O M E N T OF REFLECTION ( T H E ) or a tale for future times. Decer BF, 1796. Fores. IC. BM 8844. A vision of all her crimes passes before the dying Empress Catherine. A skeleton, Death, is about to strike her head with his spear. T h e report of her death from apoplexy had reached London seven days before this print was published. [759] •MONKISH

Illustration from Bon Ton Magazine, 4, 199. (31/2x5% in.) Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8486. Three soldiers beat u p a well-dressed man. T w o other prisoners are in the room, one chained to a wall. A virago holds a lighted candle. An illustration to "Remarks upon the late nefarious practices of the crimps and kidnappers."

MODESTY

VISION

(A) .

March 25, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 85 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks s.p. BM 9148. A fat monk, asleep in a chair, sees in his dream two beautiful maidens offering him wine and bunches of grapes. [760] • M O N S T E R CUTTING A LADY ( T H E ) , Copper bottoms to prevent being cut. In two compartments. May 1, 1790. Fores. Unsigned.

105

[I. Cruikshank] BM 7726. (L) A pretty lady, walking in front of a house marked "Angersteein," is attacked by a well-dressed man who slashes her dress. A subtitle reads, "This likeness of him was drawn by a lady who he had wounded and approved by two others." (R) A coppersmith rivets a copper underskirt on another young lady. [761] MONSTROUS ASSASSIN ( T H E ) , or the Coward turn'd bill sticker. N.d. [July 1790] N.p. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshankl BM 7733. A bill inscribed "Monster Detected" is being stuck to a wall by a large man. "Sr. S. Meadows" is engraved beneath the bill, together with a statement that it is not a certain Captain Straitshanks. T h e meanings of this plate are obscure. [762] MONSTROUS STRIDE

(A) .

July 25, 1803. Laurie 8c Whittle. 307. ICk. BM 10040. Broadley 1, 181. Ashton, p. 166. Napoleon, in Consul's dress, with one foot on Turkey and Poland, tries to put the other on England but steps short and places it among British ships. Underneath is written, " H e will put his foot in it." [763] M O N U M E N T T O T H E VICTOR O F TALAVERA AND VIT-

TORIA—The Duke of Wellington. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 248.14 Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7i/ g x6 in. MOORE, SIR J O H N , ACHIEVEMENTS OF.

THE

LIFE

AND

Original watercolor, property (1928) of Ralph Edwards, who knew it also as an engraving (Burington Mag., Apr. 1928, 54, 184.) I. Cruikshank. An irate bull tosses a frightened man into the rushes, while a woman in the background toils u p a hill. Edwards' criticism: "Rather scratchy, the foliage a mere scribble." BULRUSHES.

[767] MOTHER

BRIDGET.

[?IC] [Chapbook] 8vo. N o other data. (See [ C h a p books] Eight bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767e. [768] N B These birds have lately been seen hovering over the Horse Guards. Novr. 1808. Fores, (engraved above window). Unsigned. [IC and GC] BM 11050: [Williams], but see Cohn (1760) : "Acknowledged by G.C. to Truman as his joint work with IC." Five disabled veterans watch with disgust as Mrs. Carey, the Duke of York's mistress, spills a shawl full of young officers, each carrying a bag of money. T h i s is followed by a surprising, erudite three-line disquisition, engraved near the title, on the Storm Finch—the Mother Carey's Chicken of the sailors. •MOTHER

CAREY'S

CHICKENS.

[769] M O T H E R O F PURL

(A) .

Feb. 28, 1803, Williamson. ICk. Sessler No. 72. A fat woman is putting toddy on the fire.

GLORIOUS

See Life and glorious achievements of Sir J o h n Moore. [764] M O R E S C O T C H M E N . Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC] T w o plates of thirteen in this group were not "signed with initials." From Woodin sale cat., item 249.10 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 9s/4x\0y4 in. "A political cartoon relating to England's taxation of Scotland." [765] M O R N I N G SURPRISE

[766] MOSES IN T H E

[770] M R . AND MRS. V I T E ' s

(A) .

[? 1807.] N.p. Caries., 8, 120. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sculp. BM 10855. A man in bed stares at a hideous negress. Below the title: "Why who the Devil have we got here!!" "It is only me, Massa." 106

JOURNEY

T O VINDSOR

AND

Song head to printed verses. Pub. J u n e 13, 1808, by Laurie and Whittle. Also Pub. 13th January, 1818, by Whittle and Laurie. Pub. March 1st, 1821, by Richd Holmes Laurie. A droll. 490. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11200. A.S.W.R. (p. 216) lists 1808 date and publisher as Laurie 8c Whittle. A boatman fishes a wig from the river, at which Mrs. White, on the bank, agitatedly exclaims that some Eton boys had "popt Vite in the Vater," so he had drowned.

VEST

VICKHAM

VON

VITSUNDAY.

[771] * MR DRAKE'S REPLY T O HIS CALUMNIATORS! I

April 16, 1804. Holland. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 10237 assigned no artist. Mr. Drake, in court costume but with the

head of a drake, is being urged by Frenchmen and a Spaniard to speak up, but he only says, "Quack, Quack." Bonaparte accused Drake, the British Minister at Munich, of fostering plans for his assassination. T h e American minister, Livingstone, is saying, "A little man too, so full of piety." He is said to have blamed Drake for attempts against Bonaparte and the happiness of France. [772]

Sung by Mr. Hatton on i he Character of Ferrit. (5 engraved verses.) Octr. 13, 1806. Laurie 8c Whittle. 444. Unsigned. [IC] On the P.U.M.C. copy (Cruikshank I E 2657) is inscribed, "Engraved from a drawing by my father Isaac Cruikshank. G.Ck." B M 10688 names no artist. A.S.W.R., p. 215. Mrs. Ferrit, at the washtub, drenched Mr. Ferrit with suds when he asked for his dinner. • M R . FF.RRIT IN T H E SUDS.

[773] MR. LOBSKI; or the river sprat-catcher. Sung by Mr. Fawcett, etc. A Songhead with 6 (printed) stanzas. Novr. 24, 1808. Laurie and Whittle. A droll, 501. Unsigned. p i . Cruikshank del.] B M 11209. Douglas 1814. Cohn 1768. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2428. From an opera called " T h e Exile, or the Deserts of Siberia." A man in nondescript costume is singing beside a river in Russia. T h e meaning of the allusion to sprats in the title is not apparent. [774] • M R S . CLARKE'S

PETTICOAT.

Feby. 23, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11220. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2474. Reid (61) : "On an impression belonging (1931) to Mr. W . T . Spencer: "By my father I. Ck. not any of it by me. G. Ck.' " T h e cocked hat of the Duke of York is supported on a crozier issuing from a mitre. T h i s rests on a surface, representing Mrs. Clarke's waist, from which hangs a petticoat, and a bag full of guineas. Below the title: "Under this may be found a soothing for every pain, a remedy for every sorrow, and a reward for every trouble. On the border of the petticoat is inscribed "Honi soit qui mal y pense." [775] • M R S . FIG'S CARD P A R T Y D I S T U R B E D B Y T H E B E A D L E AND W A T C H M A N .

April 6, 1807. Tegg. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2666. Not found in BM. Reid 27. Douglas 1047. A man in livery informs the four who are

playing cards that the Beadle and the Watchmen, who are behind him, have come to take them to the round house because it is after 12 o'clock. [776] MRS. HURRY, T H E F A I T H F U L CONTRAST: Or

virtue

and vice accurately delineated. Engraved frontispiece and other woodcuts by IC. [Book] 12mo. 1804. Cohn sale cat., 823. See also this cat., item 859, "Original Poetry," etc. [777] or the new papa disappointed with Justice Shallow's attempt to chain the brutes. Mar. 15 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 7835: " T h e first allusion in the Catalogue to the connection of the Duke of Clarence with Mrs. Jordan." T h e Duke dressed as a nurse empties a chamber pot from a balcony on a man playing a tambourine. Beside the Duke is a surgeon (Dr. Warren), who calls out that he will disturb Mrs. Pickle (Jordan). T h e Justice is Richard Ford, with whom Mrs. Jordan had previously lived. MRS.

PICKLE'S

MISTAKE,

[778]

What call have you Ned; Songhead to (engraved) verses. Sung in Dublin by Mr. Stewart. Sep. 2, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 402. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10509. Also re-issued on paper watermarked 1812. An Irishman leads a pretty young woman to a fat priest. She asks to be married as Ned has a call to her. M U C H ADMIR'D IRISH LOVF. SONC.

[779] •MUDDY

( A ) . A S K E T C H IN BOND S T R E E T .

April 3. 1800. Fores. IC. Not found in BM list. Sessler, 1917, no. 46. SWF owner's stamp (below the design). A small coach with large lackeys. Dandies conversing with a lady through its window. [780] . Songsheet. Seven (printed) verses. 1st. March, 1808. Laurie 8c Whittle, 483. [I.] Cruikshank Del. [?G.C. sculp.] B M 11194. Cr. Momus, p. 44: "Geo. Cruikshank." On one impression: "Badly engraved from a drawing bv my Father—George Cruikshank March 28th, 1876." T h e verses praise the virtues of the mulberry, and compare it to the tree of life. •MULBERRY-TREE

(THE)

[781] MUNCHAUSEN AT WALCHEREN,

107

or a Continuation

of the renowned Baron's travels, adventures, expeditions, and exploits at Walcheren, the Dardanelles, Talavera, Cintra, &c. "The Truth and nothing but the Truth." Written by Himself. Folding frontispiece and three etchings by Isaac and George C. They are found in either plain or colored state. The Journey to the Moon; or Munchausen on Mahomet's Ass. Alborak, midway on the journey, is carrying the blindfolded Munchausen on his back. Alborak was the fabled mule on which Mahomet was conveyed to Heaven. (See BM 11389-11393). [Book] Cr. 8vo. Pp. I - X I I , 1-180. London. Johnston 1811. See BM 11389-11393 for comments on illustrations. Cohn 581: "3 by IC, 2 by Geo." He warns against some plates with modern coloring, detectible by the reds not being blackened by age. Reid says, "In the plate at p. 158, the hands are the work of IC, who is responsible for the other 3 etchings." He calls this a 2nd edition, the first (1809) is said by Douglas (no. 1) to have Rowlandson plates and to have been published by Tegg in 1809. See also Cohn sale cat., items 532, 533, p. 79. T h e Pope and others are satirized on pages 15-18. [782] or the Devil among the Dutch. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11393. From the book "Munchausen at Walcheren" (preceding item). Reid 54. Munchausen is hurling cannonballs at the Dutch and French (no. 19). A satire on the delay in evacuating the island. MUNCHAUSEN IN FLUSHING,

[783] MUNCHAUSEN MEETS T H E OLD M A N IN T H E M O O N TC HIS LORD CHANCELLOR. An illustration to the

book "Munchausen at Walcheren," (item 781). Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11390. Reid 51. In a fantastic world of plants and animals is the Old Man in the Moon (Napoleon), with feet in air and head on the ground, and Talleyrand. Munchausen is about to draw his sword against the Old Man, who announces himself as the guardian of all lunatics. [783a] MUNCHAUSEN'S RETURN W I T H T H E GRAND EXPEDIT I O N . [Ca. Sept. 1809] J. Pitts, 14 Gt. St. An-

drews St. Seven Dials. Unsigned. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 11367. Chatham, flying toward England on a quacking duck, says to John Bull, "Behold the great

Munchausen! . . . bringing with him an Island [Walcheren] hanging like a Mill-stone about his neck!!!"A satire on Chatham's return from the Scheldt after failing to take Antwerp. [784] BOY. Trial of Capt. J. Sutherland for the wilful murder of Richard Wilson, a boy only 13 years of age, on board "The Friends," a transport brig, lying in the Tagus off Lisbon. Tried . . . June 23, 1809. Frontispiece (folding) by IC assisted by GC It is entitled "Capt. Sutherland barbarously stabbing Richd. Wilson in the Cabbin (sic] of his own ship." [Book] 8vo. Pp. 1-26. London. Fairburn. [1809]. In Truman-Meirs copy in GC's handwriting on the fr. p.: "By my Father, Isaac Cruikshank with bits by me. G.C." In another hand: "G.C. did the small pictures and the shadings. GC's initials in 5 places." Cohn (779) states that a copy he saw had the words "The pictures on the wall by me. GCk." Douglas (321) says that the pictures on the side of the cabin are believed to be by GC. Chubbock, p. 6, no. 39. MURDER

OF

A

CABIN

[785] . French gratitude or Republican rewards for past services. Sepr. 16, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8340. De Vinck 6176. Custine, an ex-noble accused of causing the fall of several cities, was guillotined in spite of his previous victories. MURDER O F CUSTINE

(THE)

[786] , or the Songster's Summer Companion. Songs and Duets now singing at the Lyceum, Haymarket, Sadler's Wells, etc., including that celebrated song of "The Mail Coach." [Book] 8vo. London: J. Evans. N.d. [1809]. Colored frontispiece (folding) of "The Mail Coach Guard" (item 698 in my list), signed I.Ck. Also an unsigned vignette, "The Bold Dragoon," on the title page. The Truman copy was autographed as being partly the work of GC (Cohn. 585). MUSICAL

OLIO

(THE)

[787] alias the Jersey jig, alias the rival widows. August 26 [1794], Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8485: "The first appearance in the Catalogue of Lady Jersey as the Prince's mistress." The Prince with Lady Jersey, as an old crone, on his knee. Mrs. Fitzherbert goes off greatly M Y GRANDMOTHER,

108

agitated, holding a deed for an annuity of £6000 that had been settled on her. [788] MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

(THE) .

pic] [Chapbook] (See [Chapbooks] Five bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat. p. 112, item 765d. NP SPECTACLES.

APOTHEOSIS

ANTICIPATED,

OR

the

Wise men of Leipsic sending Boney to Heaven before his time!!! etc. Septr. 15 [1807], Tegg. Woodward del. [?IC. fecit.] BM 10764: [Williams f.] The style, especially the figure of Napoleon, suggests that IC probably engraved this plate. Broadley 1, 131. It was decreed by the University that thereafter "Orion's Belt" should be named Napoleon's. An example of the flattery fed to Napoleon after the Peace of Tilsit. NAPPY IN TOW.

[791]

[792] or Bulky and Bony. (Title written on mount by Temple Scott.) Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 9i4xl2i/ 2 in. This was said in the catalogue to have been accompanied by a print etched by Robert; but this name may have been the cataloguer's error. NATIONAL CONTRASTS,

[793] or Bulky and Boney. N.d.

Roberts. [Isaac Cruikshank del.] See note in the previous item, of an original drawing with this title. [794]

[?1807] Tegg. 147. Woodward del. [I. Cruikshank f.] BM 10897. The Captain of a ship comforts a frightened landlubber by saying that he would blow his vessel up before he would surrender to an enemy, who is seen in the distance. [796] , the nearer bloody. Below the design 4 lines from 2 Henry VI, 3, 2. Jany: 26, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8292. De Vinck 5795. Louis XVI kneels with his head on the block. Orléans, who had voted for his cousin's death, portrayed here as a bloated, ragged sans-culotte, acts as executioner. An old woman, designated as "Robespierre en Poissard," holds a basket to catch the head. The Queen and the Dauphin kneel, weeping. She exclaims, "How canst thou do this deed?"

NEAR

IN

BLOOD

(THE)

[796a] , or Quixotism revived or the knight of the little house. Mar. 12, 1792. Jno. Squabble. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8165. A squabble between a stout lady, the wife of Sir George Young, and an old woman seated in a "necessary house." The husband says that unless she lets his wife in, his cannon will blow her and her house to St. James's. [797] NEGLECTED FAIR ( T H E ) . Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 45.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 1114x93,4 ¡ n . A girl bemoans the neglect by her suitor while her companion berates him for it. WAR

(A)

[798]

(A) !! N. 32. Caries., 8, 133. Jan. 1, 1807. Tegg (a reissue). Woodward delin. [?I.C. sc.] BM 9809 states that this is a reissue with the publisher, Roberts', imprint removed. "Tegg's imprint begins in 1806, but the costumes, the pun on peace negotiations and the allusion to forestalling all suggest 1801." A handsome female, seated, watches a young and an old man discuss how to dispose of her. •NÉGOCIATION FOR A PIECE

( T H E ) . 24th May 1798. Laurie 8c Whittle. Beneath the title: A gentleman who was remarkably fond of raising fine tulips, showing his collection to a friend who was equally curious in butterflies, a scarce fly called the Emperor of Morocco, presenting itself to our Naturalist . . . He without

NATURALIST'S VISIT TO T H E FLORIST

[?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9326 names no artist. [795]

NECESSARY

1803. No pub. IC. Information taken from Broadley 2, 347, no. 963 (Latta collection). No description.

NATIONAL CONTRASTS

218.

•NAUTICAL COMFORT!

[789]

Nov. 23, 1809. Tegg. [I.] Cruikshank del. Cohn 1776. Douglas 967 and 968. The title refers to the New Prices-Old Prices controversy. See "OP spectacles" (BM 11429). [790] •NAPOLEON'S

any hesitation made his way over the whole Bed to seize the prize . . . Unsigned. A droll.

109

The salacious twist to the title and to their remarks is indicated by the BM editor's references to a i m . con. damages. [799] tale. 9th April 1799. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll, 299. 6s/8x9 in. Unsigned. p i q BM 9498. A.S.W.R., p. 2IS. A woman in bed supports a crying baby, her husband, standing besiae her, holds an infant's commode and a lighted taper. Beneath is written: "And behold about the ninth hour Tabitha the wife of my Bosom awoke, . . . &c fee." NEHEMLAH'S DISASTER—A

[800]

(A) —not described by Buffon. (?1804; cp. item 801, the print published this year.) IC (signed). Original sketch (half in color) . 10x13^ in. (Another sketch, "The Un-R-served Forces," on back.) From Woodin sale (1942), item 184.13. John Bull, dressed as a yokel, tells Pitt: " I have brought you a nest of curious birds your honor: we call um Billy Biters in our country and I was told as how you could tell if they were Kamavarous or No—and ought to be destroyed." He holds a shallow basket full of them (sketchily indicated by a series of ovals) toward Pitt. Pitt replies, "Yes yes friend they are a very rapacious crature [sic]. You may give them a few majority pills, and that will do for them." He is sketched in pencil, his coat in gray wash, his head in color, his hair done in both pencil and ink. John's head and clothes are colored and outlined in pencil and ink. This constitutes a satire on the menace of the powerful opposition. It was published June 16, 1804, by Fores. (See next item.) •NEST O F B I L L Y

BITERS

[801]

lately discovered in an ancient chapel in the West-minster. Title repeated on mount by Temple Scott. June 26th, 1804. Fores. Unsigned. In the right lower corner is written in ink "Ansell" and the date "16, June, 1804." IC inv. (see the original sketch, the preceding item. BM 10256: [Williams]. The close similarity of design and wording and the IC signature on the original sketch make it obvious that the invention and general design of this satire were by Isaac Cruikshank. Williams (Ansell) may have etched the plate. The design is similar to that of the original sketch, except that the seven birds are portrayed with recognizable human heads, and the basket is on the ground. Pitt holds a scroll, •NEST OF B I L L Y BITERS

(A)

"List of vacant places." In the original sketch this is an unrecognizable bundle. John Bull is not at all like the conventional type, but neither is the John of the signed original. John holds out one of the birds, with the head of Fox, saying, "Please as how your Honor they says you can tell me what sort of Animals these here be they call 'em in our parts Billy Biters and says they be Mortal Bolters to be sure they have got plenty of Mouth as a body may say and this here one seems to be the old Cock Bird, I be almost afraid of them. Pitt with a deprecating gesture answers, "And so am I my hones [sic] Fellow, but don't let the Old Bird go, for he'll surely attack one of us, they are really Carniverous and will stick to the flesh of any one they Attack like leeches until they complete his destruction. Hold him fast my good Fellow and do stop their mouths if you can or they will surely do some one a mischief." The heads of the birds are those of Sheridan, Norfolk, Grenville, Erskine, Windham and (?) Grey. Pitt holds a List of Vacant Places. On the nest lie papers: Parliament . . . Debates, Speech, etc. The figure of John Bull is poorly executed and by himself not recognizable as by Cruikshank. Pitt is well done except the fingers of his right hand, which are monstrously long. [802] No pub. pjune 1790]. Unsigned, pi. Cruikshank] BM 7656. A prisoner calls out of a top window that he is being held against his will. Below, a man says that he shall not come out unless he votes for the speaker's side. People protest in various ways. Engraved beneath the design: "This Sketch is humbly Inscribed to Geo: Lockus Esqr GOVT of the new Bastille North Street." NEW BASTILLE.

[803] NEW BIRTH

(THE) .

Dec. 17. 1789. Fores. Unsigned, pi. Cruikshank] BM 7565. Mrs. Fitzherbert gazes at a warming pan decorated with the Prince of Wales' ostrich feathers, while a monk looks on. Her rumored pregnancy led to this satire of a spurious birth with priestly connivance. [804]

(A)I! Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original pen and ink drawing [1805]. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.11 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 9y 2 xl3y 4 in. A satire on Pitt's administration.

NEW CATAMARAN EXPEDITION

110

[805] N E W CATAMARAN EXPEDITION

(A) 1!

1805. W . H o l l a n d . Isaac Cruikshank. See previous item for the original of this satire.

[806] • N E W CONSULAR WALTZ

(THE) .

May 29th, 1803. Williamson. ICk. BM 10001. J . B. T o w n s e n d collection. W o m e n are tossing B o n a p a r t e in a blanket, m a k i n g various criticisms; he says, "OhI that I were safe in Egypt!" A D u t c h m a n a n d a Spaniard look on. [807] NEW DUTCH EXERCISE

April 1st. 1795. Fores. G. M. Woodward delin. IC. BM 8633. Eight D u t c h m e n , with a l a u d a b l e sentiment inscribed above each, illustrate the opposite by their behavior. T h e plate emphasizes the supposed defects of the Dutch in wartime.

[808] • N E W F R E N C H BUSSING MATCH

(A) , or more cursing & swearing for the Assembly. J u l y 16, 1792. Fores. IC. BM 7661. Louis XVI, like all the others, is weeping a n d embracing several fraternizers at the Fête de la Fédération on the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. (A) .

See Roach's New a n d C o m p l e t e History of the Stage (item 1019). [809] • N E W INSECT

( A ) . 12th May. 1784. H u m p h r e y .

Unsigned. T h e plate includes 12 engraved lines of description. [?I. Cruikshank del a n d / o r seul.] BM 6718: [PRowlandson]; but not m e n t i o n e d by Grego. A well-dressed m a n is seen in profile. T h e description of his species is ironical, a n d in terms of insect life. [810] (A) . T h e tandem— or Billy in his sulky. Feb. 20, 1799. Fores. IC. BM 9348. Pitt, in a two-wheeled cart, drives two bulls, J B (John Bull) and P B (Paddy Bull) , over r o u g h stones (marked "Irish resolution, Irish objection, Voice of the People ") toward Windsor. JB, pulling hard, does not relish the close connection with PB, who is very refractory. • N E W IRISH JAUNTING CARR

• N E W MERCURY

[812] • N E W M E T H O D O F BEAR BAITING

(A) .

N E W HISTORY O F THE STAGE

i n d e p e n d e n t electors of Westminster. Pull Devil pull Baker. J u n e 1st, 1796. Fores. Unsigned. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 8813. A coach, m a r k e d with a crown on one half a n d a liberty cap on the other, is pulled in one direction by a horse with the head of G a r d n e r r i d d e n by Pitt, h e a d i n g toward Despotism; a n d in the o t h e r direction by a horse with the head of Fox h e a d i n g toward R e v o l u t i o n i s m . Posts point to Peace a n d Prosperity, roads beh i n d the coach. John H o m e T o o k e is one of the occupants of the coach. Pitt is d r a w n in a typical I C m a n n e r .

[811] ( T H E ) . Dedicated to the free &

Ill

(THE) .

Deer 21, 1807. Fores. ICk. BM 10777. Reid 32. Broadley I, 264, describes this plate. (See description that follows.) N a p o l e o n a n d T a l l e y r a n d hold ropes that are tied to the Russian bear's collar, while savage dogs, with names of various commodities (fur, tallow, h e m p , tar, etc.) inscribed on their collars, are a b o u t to attack him. Russian exports to E n g l a n d b e i n g cut off led to a break between France a n d Russia. N a p o l e o n says, " T h e y will soon worry h i m to d e a t h a n d then I'll m a k e another Emperor." [813] • N E W MILITARY ROAD TO YORK

(THE) . b y w a y o f

Frome. May 1807. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. a n d G.C.]. BM 10729: [Williams] T o m e this looks like a j o i n t work of I. a n d G.C., a n d not like that of Williams. Veterans must travel by the old tedious r o a d . T h o s e w h o can pay to the Greenwood T r u s t can go by the New T u r n p i k e R o a d to the h e a r t of York. F r o m e was the n a m e of an agent for the Duke of York in p r o c u r i n g commissions. [814] , or scene after the r e a d i n g of the ten c o m m a n d m e n t s . Septr. 2, 1803. Mrs. Griffiths. Plate (8i/ 8 x9i/£ i n . ) , Broadside, p r i n t e d (81/3x17 in.) ICk. N o t f o u n d in BM list. Broadley 2, list no. 964 (Latta coll.), p. 347. T h e engraving shows Bonaparte, two priests a n d three others, all r i d d e n by black demons. O n l y one figure, a Britisher (?), stands unbowed. T h e rest of the broadside describes an imaginary scene with remarks f r o m various clergy a n d laity, mostly different f r o m those on the plate. • N E W MOSFS

(THE)

[815] for the present year. (Not named, see b e l o w ) . Unsigned.

N E W POCKET VALENTINE WRITER

[?Isaac Cruikshank] Folding colored frontispiece. T h o u g h this is thought by several to be the work of George, on one copy is written in George's hand, "By my Father, Isaac Cruikshank." Cohn (596), allocates it to George. Douglas (371) has no comment. [Book] Lon. J. Bailey. 16mo. N.d. [?1815] [816] • N E W P R O P FOR A RICKETY STOOL

similarly marked. All the whales are inside the line of buoys. In the spout of one is written, "Fish and be Damned." A British ship in an upper corner has the name "Convention" across her stern. T h e American coastline is inaccurately drawn and includes mostly English names (Cooks River, New Albion, etc.). "Cali Forunia" is a barely recognizable peninsula. Pitt's youthful figure is well done and typical of IC's style. T h e cartoon may have to do with the South Sea Bubble, which burst in 1720, though the Company's privileges continued till 1807. It is an unusually interesting cartoon.

(A) .

Feb: 28, 1798. Fores. IC. BM 9305. T w o lovers in an elevated shed marked "Modesty and Chastity." It is supported on a pole which a tailor is cutting through with huge shears. Most of the men below have cuckolds' horns. T h e plate satirizes the frequency of divorce. [817] N E W PRUSSIAN EXERCISE ( T H E ) , or the allied armies distressed in their rears with a hint at the convenience of sans culottes. Oct. 16 ("6" is reversed) 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8125. Some unarmed sans-culottes drive off Russian troops commanded by the Duke of Brunswick. T h e title indicates the ravages caused among them by dysentery.

[821] N E W STATE COACH (THF.) SETTING O U T ON T H E FIRST J O U R N E Y . Title written on mount in auto-

graph of Temple Scott. [IC] An original drawing, "signed by the artist with initials" (except for two of the thirteen in this group). From the Woodin sale cat., item 249.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). I0i4xI4 in. A cartoon dealing with the new Pitt administration. [822] N E W WAY O F POSTING A LIBEL.

Nov. 23, 1795. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8694: [PWest], T h e Marquis of Buckingham is posting a bill "500 £ reward. Whereas,—." On the paste container on his shoulder is a coat of arms intended for that of the Marquis, though incorrect.

[818] Title supplied in an unknown hand. Aug. 13. 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 10, p. 25. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8939. Several old men on the river bank, fishing. [ • N E W RIVER HEAD ISLINCTON]

[819] N E W SCOTCH REEL ALTERED F R O M T H E BRUNSWIC [SIC] & T H E OLD JERSEY J I G .

[823] ! or John Bull surprised for the moment! Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC]. An original drawing, "signed by the artist with initials" (applying to all but two of the thirteen in this group, but which two?). From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.10 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10i4xl2s/ 4 in. John Bull warns Fox to beware of his partner, Pitt. N E W WIG

Feb. 2, 1797. Fores. IC. BM 8983. T h e Prince of Wales; Lady Jersey, who had intrigued against the Princess of Wales; and her rival, the Duchess of Manchester, nee Gordon. See also "My Grandmother alias the Jersey Jig," item 787. (BM 8485, 1794).

[820] ( T H E ) or a cheap way to catch whales. Jany 4, 1791. Humphreis [sic]. A large plate, 1 4 ^ x 2 1 i n c h e s . I. Cruikshank feet (etched below the design). In the design, obscured by the etching of the waves, is "Cruikshanks" in large heavy letters. Not found in BM list. Pitt in a small boat fishing, with a money bag marked "3 million Gen. Ele," just outside a line of buoys (marked "10 Leagues") off the west coast of North America. With him is "Harry," in black, holding two more bags

(THF.)

• N E W SOUTH SEA FISHERY

[824] NEW

WITS MAGAZINE

(THE) .

"Numerous plates and woodcuts by IC." [Book] 8vo. T. Tegg. N.d. [1805] Cohn sale cat., 841b. [825] In a letter from a beast of burden to her brother Jack. Song head to printed verses. 25th May, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 467. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10947. NEWS FROM WORTHING.

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A young woman mounted on a balky donkey which is in the water, others in the background also on donkeys. The crowd is amused. [826] [ • N E W S VENDER AT BRISTOL

(A) .]

Octr 22, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 28, p. 68. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks s. BM 8957. Four men crowd around a news vender who is dispensing newspapers piled on an ancient column. [827] [?1795] Pub. May 6 Alias Hair Powder Day. Fores. IC. BM 8646. The King, Pitt and the Prince of Wales are pushing a large block to the top of a pile inscribed "The Princes Debts." The title, which is repeated several times on the plate, was apparently a catchword relating to the powder tax, one of many recently imposed. N O GRUMBLING.

[828] • N O REFORM, N O R E F O R M .

April 9, 1795. Fores. IC. BM 86S5. Owner's stamp (S.W.F.) in corner. Pitt comes from the Treasury with his clothes stuffed to overflowing with gold coins, saying "No Reform." Opposite, dishevelled, is a cleric, carrying lists of clerical expenses, also saying "No Reform." The plate satirizes Pitt's attitude toward reform. [829] , or Britannia assisting the cause of freedom all over the world, whither [sic] friend or foe! July 20th 1808. Fores. Cruikshank del. BM 11003: [I. and/or G. Cruikshank], Reid 47. Cohn (1791) : "Isaac assisted by George." Broadley 1, 272. Ferdinand, leading his troops against the French, is aided by Britannia, seen as a goddess pouring munitions from the clouds. A cat, "Mew rat" (Murat), chases the French rats. Refers to Canning's speech declaring that any nation that has the spirit to throw off the yoke of the tyrant of France becomes at that moment a British ally. • N O B L E SPANIARDS ( T H E )

[830] ME. Augt. 1, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. Below the title: Intended as a Companion to the second appearance of Miss Bailey's Ghost just published [BM 10677]. Heading to engraved verses: Sung by Mrs. Jordan with unbounded Applause at the NOBODY COMING TO MARRY

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. A droll. 437. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 10682. A grieving young woman sits outside a cottage, as two passing dandies observe her. The verses end, "I am sure it is not my fault, that I must die an old Maid." [831] NOBODY'S SONG. Song with engraved verses. March 28, 1807. Laurie «c Whittle. A droll. 461. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10942. A partly dressed man pushes a pretty maid toward the open door of a bedroom. A picture of "Nobody" on the wall portrays Napoleon. [832] • N O N E BUT T H E BRAVE DESERVE T H E FAIR.

1st May 1790. Robt Sayer. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 7803 names no artist. Sold by Spencer as an IC (1922). A comely young woman holds apart two elderly admirers, who want to fight for her favors. [833] N O R T H COUNTRY TRANSFER (A) , or Abraham Newland alarm'd. April 5. 1805. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank?,

inscriptions by

GC]

BM

10383. Newland, chief cashier of the Bank of England, asks Trotter, who has two sacks under his arm, where he is carrying the bags to. He says he is taking them to Johnny Mac Crees (Melville), who stands in his pawnshop across the way. [834] • N O T T I N G H A M CARD PARTY (A) . March 18, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 81 (no page given). Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9144. Two tables of card-players are being served wine by a footman in uniform. [835] [O.P. RIOTS, ANOTHER ETCHING RELATIVE T O T H E ]

No date or pub. [I.] Cruikshank. Reid 90. This is obviously a cartoon that Reid has seen and included in his list under a heading of his own invention. Apparently illustrates Kemble's unsuccessful appeal to a law court. He says, "This is an end to all my glory." He is followed by Clifford, leader of the riots, dressed in legal costume, while the spectators cheer. Some are holding a man's head under a flowing pump—a form of punishment still used by English schoolboys on one of their schoolmates.

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Reid, 89, also lists "An illustration of the O.P. Riots without a Title." Cruikshank del. Johnston, Nov. 1809, Kemble, in a frenzy at the din, is unable to make himself heard.

In Woodin sale cat., item 249.5 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7x9i/ 8 in. "Probably intended for a political cartoon." [839]

LIGHT DRAGOONS. Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. I.C. Original watercolor drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 12s/4x7 in.

[835a] O. P. SPECTACLES

OFFICER

(THE) .

Nov. 17. 1809. Tegg. Unsigned. [I. and G.] Cruikshank del. Not in Reid. Douglas 967. Cohn (1799): " T h e figures within the spectacles are by G.C." See also the N.P. Spectacles (item 789), (Cohn 1776), who assigns both to Cruikshank del. Two large spectacles are on the face of Clifford which fills the whole plate. Each shows the Covent Garden Theatre: on the right, Kemble and another actor; on the left, soldiers and again two actors. One of several cartoons on the change in prices and the riots that ensued.

BACKWARD

TURNED

TO

CHE

BOCCONE!

[842]

BE. Sepr. 21, 1793. Fores. Some imprints have a slightly different title and date. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8341. T h e unpopular Duke of Richmond, as Master of the Ordnance, vomits a cascade of war munitions. T h e "Heriditary [sic] Income D'Aubigne," etched on the plate, refers to wealth and title inherited from an ancestress, a mistress of Charles II.

(THE) .

[843]

M A T T E R B E ! Johnny has been at the Fair. Octr 14, 1793. T . Prattent. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8404. A young woman trying to conceal her pregnancy is scrutinized by an old woman, while a young man points to a print, " T h e Broken Pitcher." OH!

(THE)

DEAR! W H A T CAN T H E

[844] Title supplied by me. [PIC] Original watercolor. (Small, 4x6 in.) A Jew holding up to the light old breeches full of holes, with eight insects (moths?) flying away. An old-style ink well and quill pen are well drawn. His features more like IC's work than its companion's ("Two Men arguing," item 1249, q.v.). [•OLD CLOTHES MAN]

[838] INTERPOSING B E T W E E N A QUARREL-

SHE

O H ! DEAR W H A T CAN THF. M A T T E R

[837] . Sung by Mr. Grimaldi. Broadside (14s/ 8 x8i/ 2 in.) Oct. 12th 1807. Tegg. W2. 6. (Apparently appeared in two series.) [I.] Cruickshank delt. BM 10930. T h e dealer, outside his shop, describes his wares, which are detailed in the verses. Two girls and a small boy stand listening. (AN)

WENT

April 15, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8643. "Boccone" can be translated "mouthful." T h e Princess of Wales on the bridal bed, the Prince beside it, with aphrodisiacs on a table. T h e wedding was on April 8.

IC. Original drawing (India ink and watercolor with pen outlines). 3y 8 x5i/ 8 in. In L. Binyon's Cat. of Drawings by British artists in the Dept. of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Vol. I, p. 349, 1908). A group of men and women looking at the pictures. Prominent among them is a nobleman wearing an order.

OFFICER

AS SHE

[841] OH!

[836a]

ODD-DEALER

THE

VIEW." A small book illustration not identified. July 31, 1794. Roach. Unsigned. I. Cruikshank. Seen by me at Spencer's (1922).

RAMBLE.

OCTAGON ROOM AT T H E ROYAL ACADEMY

OF

[840] "OFT

[836] Deer. 26, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. Heading to engraved verses. Sung by Mr. Smith, with unbounded applause, in the Rival Patriots, at Sadler's Wells. A droll. 453. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 216. BM 10694 names no artist. Oatland, in a watch house, singing tipsily, describes how he rambles from one alehouse to another. T h e watchman is asleep and two other captured revellers are seated at a table. OATLAND'S

(AN)

ING MAN AND WOMAN. Title written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC] An original drawing, "signed with initials," except for an unknown two of the thirteen in this group.

OLD COMMODORE

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[845] . Heading to 39 11. of

(THF.)

p r i n t e d verses. Dec. 1, 1807. Laurie 8c W h i t t l e . A droll. 478. Unsigned. [I. 8c G. C r u i k s h a n k del.] BM 10957. P.U.M.C.: C r u i k E 2426. Cr. Momus, p. 38, Dec. 10, 1807. C o h n sale cat. (1023) : a copy a u t o g r a p h e d by G C as being "Engraved from a Drawing by my Father, I Cruikshank." in ink. N o t in Reid. Douglas (1809), who also lists (no. 1356) without date, a songhead with this title. " P u b . by H a r r i l d . G. Cruikshank feet." An old officer, one-eyed a n d gouty, hobbles along a sea f r o n t . T h e song regrets that he cannot go to sea once more. [846] , or Weathercock Billy voting as his conscience directed him. A Songhead (with 40 lines of verse). 1810. J . F a i r b u r n . Unsigned. [?I. and G.C.] Douglas 1304. Reid 98. C o h n (1802) : "Probably joint work of Isaac a n d George." A satire on Sir William Curtis voting against the Ministry o n the motion about the Walcheren expedition (January 1810). H e is in the usual costume given h i m by the caricaturists, with a weathercock on his hat.

OLD COMMODORE

(THE)

OLD FABLE O F T H E FROC AND T H E OX.

IC. Original Sketch. Summer 1803. In Broadley's collection. Broadley, 2, no. 669 in his table. O n the back, an unfinished sketch, "Expédition à la lune," q.v., 2, 326 (no. 310 on t a b l e ) . [848]

[849] or a serious divertisment [sic] as performed at the Chappel [sic] Royal!!! March 25, 1800. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC sculp.] BM 9527: [Cawse], A young m a n complains that his good top hat has been exchanged for an old one; the well-dressed thief calls it a fair hoax as he makes off. T h e King calls it a good joke; the Queen says n o t h i n g ; Lord Salisbury grins. A weak concept, poorly executed. HAT,

[850] OLD

WOMAN

AND

HER

EGGS

[852] First line of colored engraving opp. p. 84 (Savillon at the t o m b of J u l i a ) , Savillon's Elegies, 1795. I. Cruikshank del. Author Invent. B. Reading sculp. See also an uncolored copy in a set of f o u r listed u n d e r [Book Illustrations f r o m Savillon's Elegies].

(AN)

March 29, 1804. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10234. Fox caught in the " N e w Opposition T r a p . " W i n d h a m a n d the Grenvilles, all shown in the cartoon, h a d persuaded Fox to join them. Eventually, when the King would not have Fox, they stood by him, deserting Pitt. •OLD

[851] or J o h n Bull i n t r o d u c i n g his new ambassador to the G r a n d Consul. J u n e 16, 1803. Fores. [I.] Cruikshank del. P.U.M.C.: IE 2654. BM 10016. Broadley 1, 176. Ashton, p. 148. J o h n Bull produces a muscular boxer to deal with a small Napoleon in full uniform, who shakes his fist, saying, " T h e r e , Sir, take that." T h e boxer says he will settle his hash in one r o u n d . (This phrase was generally thought to have started in the U.S. before 1807 and been taken over by the English in the W a r of 1812!) T w o foreign ambassadors express amazement at Napoleon's behavior. • O L Y M P I C GAMES,

• O N THIS COLD STONE I'LL FIX MY DREAR ABODE!

[847]

OLD FOX—CAUCHT AT LAST!!

1805. Laurie 8c W h i t t l e . H e a d i n g to Engraved verses: Sung by Mr. Fawcett in Crotchet Lodge. A droll. 408. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 215—BM 10511 names n o artist. A woman is at her cottage door, her dog barking at her. A peddler in the rear grins at her. T h e last verse says, " H e began to bark 8c she began to cry,/Lord ha mercy on me, this is n o n e of I , / Fal de ral," etc.

(THE)

. Octr 29,

[853] ONE O F THE F A M I L Y ! !

Dec. 20, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8686 regards this as executed by Isaac. From a note u n d e r BM 8686, item 6944, "A Magisterial Visit," not mentioning any other artist, it can be inferred that this too was thought to be by Isaac. Justice Mittimus, "A wery great m a n in the sedition line of business," intrudes u p o n a husb a n d and wife. [854] T i t l e written on m o u n t in autograph of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the W o o d i n sale cat., item 246.7 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 8i/ 2 xl2 in. A political cartoon. OPEN AIR RELIGIOUS MEETING.

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[855] , or the air-gun Slot or the infamous attack on his Majesty, [[ov] 2, 1797. Fores. Unsigned. HL Cruikshank] BM 9035. T h i s cartoon ridicules an alleged plot to blow a poisoned dart at the King in his glass coach. A hole in the glass is here caused by a blast from Fox's posterior, aimed by Stanhope. Actually the Opening took place without incident. OPENING O F PARLIAMENT

(THE)

[856] or Hollands last shift. Octr 24, 1794. Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8493. French soldiers advance through streams of water produced by a line of Flemish women from their bare posteriors. T w o women, in typical Flemish costume, and a Dutchman, smoking, occupy the background. O P E N I N G T H E SLUCES [SIC],

[857] OPPOSITION

AND M I N I S T E R I A L

VISION.

IC. Original sketch in Broadley's collection. May 1804. Broadley 2, p. 330, no. 673. No details available. [858] ORIGIN

OF

COCKNEY

(THE) .

N.p.,

n.d.

["ca.

1800," in a modern hand.] [I.j Cruikshank. (Printed, etched on plate) . P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2814. T h e print is laid in a folder, on which is written: "a rare etching. T h e only copy I have ever seen or heard of. It is, I think, entirely the work of Isaac Cruikshank. H.G." A well-to-do man and his family, standing by a milestone marked "1 mi. from London," are looking over a field containing horses and poultry. T h e young son asks, "Look Father what do you call that there Noise thise [sic] here Horse is a making, Fathr?" "Why I believe they call it Horse Neighing." Son: "how wonderful!! O my Eye Father look there's a Cock Neighing."

1. Mar. 24, 1800. A Tea P a r t y - A Card Party. Pub. by Fores. 2. Apr. 9, 1800. Half an hour before d i n n e r Half an hour after supper. Pub. by Fores. 3. Apr. 26, 1800. Playing at Hazard. A Private Concert. Pub. by Fores. 4. May 5, 1800. A Shooting Party. A Fishing Party. Pub. by Fores. 5. May 12, 1800. A Belle. Pub. by Fores. 6. J u n e 4, 1800. A Country Ale House. Pub. by Fores. 7. (N.d.) A London Coffee House. Pub. by Fores. Not found in British Museum catalogue. [861] " O R N A M E N T S F O R TONBRIDGF. W A R E , " &C.

Jan. 2, 1809. Laurie & Whittle. Unsigned. [?I. a n d / o r G. Cruikshank] Reid 1, 59. Eleven small subjects on one sheet. Douglas (1051) says "given on authority of Reid only." Reid gives no real evidence of authorship. Cohn (1815) says that a copy was in the Douglas collection. [862] OURSELVES!!

Jany 1st 1796. Fores. One of a set (Vol. 1, PI. 15). Caries., 8, 52. Woodward delin. IC. BM 8926. Twelve single figures, their ruminations etched above their heads. A wide range of thoughts is disclosed. [863] , or Boney's last batch entirly [sic] spoiled!!! Aug. 24, 1808. Fores. lCk. BM 11017: [I. (?and G) Ck.l Wright, p. 291. Napoleon as a gingerbread baker is in despair at the burst of flames from his oven, marked Spain-Portugal. Dupont's surrender at Baylen and King Joseph's retreat from Madrid were arousing far-flung hopes in the Whig press.

OVEN ON FIRE

(THF.)

[864] [ • A N OXFORD PROCESSION]

[859] ORIGINAL POETRY FOR YOUNG MINDS.

By Miss Etched [Book] sale cat.,

Horwood. frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank. 12mo. A. K. Newman. N.d. Cohn's 823a.

[860] [ O R N A M E N T S FOR SCREENS, SEVEN.]

[?I. Cruikshank sc.], for each item. These six "ornaments" were listed by me as seen in Mr. Spencer's shop in 1922, without any further details. I have no support for his word that they were done by Isaac.

December 31, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 48, [p. 120]. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sc. BM 8942. T h e Vice Chancellor and two companions (one of whom has been engraved with a third leg) march past, preceded by a verger and followed by beadles. [865] I usd for to cry when the wind blew so hard that my boat could not ply. Mar. 19, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8177. A young woman walks with her lame h u v

OYSTERS,

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OYSTERS.

band, who carries a basket of oysters. She flatters him to his face, but privately thinks she'll cuckold him whenever she pleases.

don, an aggressive tailor flinches before a Beefeater's pike. T h e verses tell of his sightseeing: the Tower, the play, the opera and the Invisible Girl.

[866] ACES. A Songhead to printed verses. Sung by Mr. Johnstone. Apr. 6, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 463. [G. a n d / o r 1.1 Cruikshank del. BM 10944. Cohn (1822) : "Possibly entirely by Isaac, but I think some of George's work in it." Reid 4492. Douglas 1807. Suggested by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage." A cheery young Irishman, as he walks along, points to a very decrepit old m a n in his cabin. PADDY

M'SHANE'S

[871]

SEVEN

[867] [ • P A D D Y ON A BULL CHASING FESSEX (?) SMALLER BULL] A Political Cartoon.

ON

A

IC (signed). Original colored pencil sketch. 8x14 in. N o title or date given. From the Woodin sale, 1942. Paddy rides a large bull chasing Essex (?) on a smaller one. "Irishman" is written in pencil above Paddy's head. T h e political allusion has not been traced.

[868] PADDY SHANNON COURTING T H E WIDOW

WILKINS.

L. & W . J u n e 24, 1808. A d r o l l . 491. U n s i g n e d .

[?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 11201. A.S.W.R., p. 216. Printed verses, "written by an Amateur, and sung by Mr. Johnstone," describe how an Irishman on a rough horse courts an ugly old woman, who is leaning out of a window above him. [869] PADDY'S COURTSHIP or love at first sight, being the awkward addresses of Mr. Patrick O'Shelf, & the abrupt refusal of Miss Blarney. Heading to twelve engraved verses. Deer. 30th, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 416. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10514 names no artist. A fashionably dressed young woman snaps her fingers at a loutish dandy, telling him in the verses that she will serve only her King and Country. [870] PADDY'S R A M B L E T H R O U G H LONDON. Octr. 1. 1806. Laurie & Whittle. Heading to Engraved verses: By the author of the Yorkshire m a n in London; or Humphrey Hobnail's return from the play. A droll. 442. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10686 names n o artist. Outside a guard-room in the T o w e r of Lori

(A) ! or the little Wiltshire dentist easing Faro's little daughter of the tooth-ache. July 6, 1797. Fores. Cruikshank del. BM 9081. T h e corpulent dentist, Brewer, and the enormous Lady Buckinghamshire were given the name appearing in the title, taking off the obese Prince Frederick of Wurtemberg. • P A I R O F WIRTEMBERGS

[872] (A) or great men in the horrors!! No (v) 20, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8689. Pitt, dejectedly sitting on a chamber pot with his back to Fox, curses the field meeting brought about by the Bill against Seditious Meetings. Fox, with a bill, "Copenhagen Meeting," protruding from his pocket, says it will be all u p with the opposition. PANIC ON BOTH SIDES

[873] PARISH MEETING (A) , ON T H E S U B J E C T O F INVASION! J O H N BULL IN T H E CHAIR. Heading to a

dialogue. July, 18, 1803. M Allen. Written and designed by G. M. Woodward. ICk sc. BM 10037. Broadley 2, p. 330, list no. 680. A varied assemblage, smoking and drinking, sit about a table, with J o h n Bull presiding; each, speaking in character, says how to deal with Napoleon (e.g., the barber will give a complete lathering, the tailor will trim the fellow, etc.) One of the many invasion prints. [874] [PARK SCENE

(A) ]

IC. Negative and positive of a photostat of original sketch, lS]/4xl0i/2. (See reproduction of sketch in Meirs' sale cat., item 237, with the same title, also signed IC.) T h r e e well-dressed women and a fourth with arms akimbo. T h e mistress walks in front; a second lady, staring haughtily at the maid, passes behind her; a third is sitting on a bench. [875] PARODY ON T H E UNFORTUNATE MISS BAILEY.

May 1, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 345. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 214. BM 10352 names n o artist. An actor is seized by a bailiff for non-payment of a small bill. Below the design is described how he had been arrested a week before he was to appear in a benefit. T h a t night he sang

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this parody, in five verses, "which was loudly encored."

[881] [PAWNBROKER (A) EXAMINING A CLIENT'S JEWELS]

Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 248.16

[876] •PARSONIC PIETY.

Jan. 20, 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8524. In two compartments: on the left, a parson in the pulpit, beneath which is engraved, "Good precepts—do as I say." On the right, a drunken parson is leaving a brothel with a loose woman. This is labelled, "But bad examples—not as I do." [8771 (Title from BM's MS. index to "Caricatures.") N.p. [?1800] Caries., 8, 46. Unsigned. [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9647. Twelve figures, each of a parson in the pulpit, expressing as many different sentiments. [PARSONIC PIETY]

[878] PARTY'S NOT AGREED.

May 14, 1800. Aitken. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9535. Pitt, with a Union Bill in his hand, urges Pat to be friends. Pat replies, "You be D — d ; No Union by Jasus." [879] •••PASTIMES

OF

PRIMROSE

HILL.

Pub.

by

W.

Locke, Sep. 1, 1791. A book illus. from " T h e Attic Miscellany," Vol. 2, p. 409, No. 24. Engraved, in black and white and in color. Drawn by Cruikshanks. Etch'd by Barlow. Size 614x8 in. See also a reduced copy (colored) in Cr. Momus (p. 13) : "Isaac Cruikshank. September, 1791." A fat man, who is pulling a cart full of children up the hill, has his head mopped by a lady who holds his wig. A friend peers through a telescope, while his wife is entertained by an officer-relative. T h e plate in " T h e Attic Miscellany" has small variations of detail. [880] PATIENCE; or a bad job: An original tale. Written by the author of Speculation. 20th November 1798. Laurie & Whittle. Printed verses in two columns. Unsigned. [PIC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9335. An old parson is threatening his servant, as his wife restrains him. T h e verses tell how the parson, after his sermon on Job, was telling his wife that his patience was equal to Job's, when a servant came in to tell him that a cask of ale had been spilled. As his wife was reproaching him that J o b was not half so vexed, he retorted, "Answer me this, I say—Did J o b e'er lose a barrel of such ale?"

( P a r k e - B e r n e t Gall., 1 9 4 2 ) . 4S/ 8 X3I/ 2 in.

T h e "jewelry" in his hands appears to be a rosary. [882] •PEACE OFFERING TO THF. GENIUS OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY (A) . Dedicated to those lovers of

French freedom who would thus debase their country. Feb. 10, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8426. Stanhope, Sheridan, Fox, Whitbread, Bedford, Erskine, as bonnet-rouge delegates, respectfully apply for peace to a horrible monster—the French Republic. T h e British lion slips away from his position supporting the Royal Coat of Arms. T h e figure of Fox is typical for Isaac's work. [883] P E E P AT THE PARISOT (A) ! With

Q in the corner! May 7, 1796. Fores. I. Cruikshank. BM 8894. C. E. Jensen, Karikatur-Album, 1, 158 (reproduction). T h e famous dancer in one of her "attitudes." T h e Duke of Queensberry in the front row of the pit, also Sheridan, Fox, Pitt, Burke, Bedford, et al. [884] • P E E P AT THE PLENIPO—!!!

(A).

Jan. 1. 1794. Fores. A large design (12x143/4 in). I.C. BM 8423. T h e "I.C." is a small one on the carpet. SWF's owner stamp in corner. T h e handsome Turkish minister is surrounded by the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Lady Buckinghamshire, Mrs. Archer, and Salisbury (Lord Chamberlain), while the Duke of Richmond studies them with a glass. T h e King and Queen are barely visible to the right. [885]

(A) , or preparation for the meeting of Parliament. Oct. 21, 1807. Tegg. Unsigned. [?I. and G.C.] Not found in B M catalogue. A dozen or more men, of various occupations and at the moment variously occupied, express their thoughts while waiting for the meeting. Only three or four of the figures are skilfully done. A standing man reading a French grammar, and one behind him, resemble George's work. One who is reading "Acts relative to Popery," and several others, are like Isaac's work. •PF.EP BEHIND THE CURTAIN

118

[886] • P E E P INTO SALDANHA BAY

(A) , or D u t c h

per-

fidy rewarded. Nov. 7, 1796. Fores. IC. BM 8831. A D u t c h m a n is s t a n d i n g with coins d r o p p i n g f r o m his pockets. An English sailor holds a large hat full of coins, while a n o t h e r seizes a ragged F r e n c h m a n . A D u t c h fleet h a d b e e n sent three m o n t h s earlier to c a p t u r e the C a p e of G o o d Hope, b u t had to s u r r e n d e r to a British s q u a d r o n at Saldanha Bay, n o r t h of C a p e Town. [887] • P E E P INTO T O T E N H A M [SIC] STREET

(A) , o r

dil-

litanti [sic] performers in training. Mar. 9, 1802. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC del. a n d / o r sc.] BM 9919: [Williams]. B o t h the design and the engraving look like IC's work. T e n figures practicing declamation with various theatrical phrases. In the b a c k g r o u n d , a coach urges a weeping y o u n g w o m a n to t h r o w a few more tears into the last passage.

[888] • P E E P O F DAY BOYS PREVENTING AN ADDING FIRE TO T H E SUN!!! An Irish

UNION

AND

JENNY.

[891] (A) ; or the doctor a n d his friends keeping the b u m b r u s h e r and her m y r m i d o n s at bay. Apr. 17, 1791. H o l l a n d . Unsigned. [PIC] B M 7991: [?H. W.]. T h i s engraving is characteristic of IC's style a n d seems probably to have been designed a n d / o r cut by him. Dr. R i c h a r d Perry, of Bristol, had eloped with a fifteen-year-old heiress, Clementina Clarke. H e r governess a n d two bailiffs are prevented f r o m seizing her by two m e n with p o i n t e d pistols. • P E R R Y - L O U S SITUATION

BY

m e t h o d of t h r o w i n g cold water on a subject. Mar. 2, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9351. O n the left, the Peep of Day Boys (Ulster Protestants) are pulling at a large sun with the head of Pitt (recognizable only by his n o s e ) . T o the right, an Irish crowd (Catholics) are p r o d d i n g it, with remarks like " D o w n w i t h their daylights and then we shall have night all day long." A log fire is being kindled in a corner. T h i s conflict, which h a d been in existence for some years, became acute at this time. [889] PEEPERS IN BOND STREET, or the cause of the lounge!! April 1st 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8377: " T h e artist's initials are in the escutcheon on the coach." Fuchs, Die F r a u in der Karikatur (1906), p. 204, r e p r o d u c t i o n . T h e exposed legs of two ladies are inspected by a n u m b e r of loungers. [889a] PEER ( T H E ) NOW SPREADS T H E GLITTERING FEX [SCISSORS] WIDE.

[890] Illustration (Stipple in c o l o r ) , f r o m " T h e G e n t l e Shepherd," Act 1. Small oval (7i/2x6i/& i n ) . N.p., n.d. Drawn and engraved by I. Cruikshanks. Also Peggy and Patie (same play, Act 2) ; Madge and Baldy's battle (Act 4) ; Peggy Jenny and Bland (Act 5 ) . All signed / . Cruikshanks. Seen in Brit. M u s e u m by me (1929) b u t not f o u n d in BM. T h e r e is probably a n o t h e r of the series, facing Act. 3. PEGGY

[892] P E T I T I O N MONGERS IN FULL CRY TO ST. STEPHENS!!

Beware of wolves in sheeps cloathing. Novr. 26. 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [PI. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 8697. Sheridan a n d Fox b e n d u n d e r the weight of their loads of petitions against the T r e a s o n a n d Sedition Bills. T h i s plate satirizes the attempts of the opposition to delay their passage until protest meetings could be held to block them. [893] —or a review of old times. March 9th 1803.—Williamson. I.Ck. BM 9971. P.U.M.C.: C r u i k IE 2652. A magician (Napoleon?) displays to a stout, prosperous F r e n c h m a n a n d a thin, wretched E n g l i s h m a n two figures f r o m the past who look just their opposite. T h i s is a p p a r e n t l y a reference to British want in 1799-1801, a n d a comp l i m e n t to the prosperity of France u n d e r the First Consul. PHANTASMAGORIA

[894]

FOR-

A book illustration, f r o m Alexander Pope's " R a p e of the Lock," C a n t o 3, 32 lines f r o m the end of the canto. [IC] In Spencer's collection (1922). E d i t i o n not recorded; probably 1795. I n seven lines following the title, L o r d Petre's acquisition of two of Miss Fermor's locks is described.

(THE)

P H A R A O H ' S FAT KINE. P H A R A O H ' S LEAN

KINE.

Feby 10, 1803. Williamson. IC. A cartoon in two sections. In the "fat kine" division of this version of the Biblical dream, a f a r m e r a n d a parson are drinking; a b a r m a i d stands by. In the "lean" part are three thin figures, one a parson whose wig is being snatched off by a parrot.

119

PHOTOSTATS OF ORIGINAL SKETCHES.

See [A Country Dance]; Fleet Market evacuated. [895] 'PHYSIOGNOMICAL STUDIES. Aug. 1, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 1, p. 7, folded. Designed by Woodward. Etched by [I.] Cruikshanks. BM 8930. Eighty characters in half-length portraits, sketched at a coffee house in the city. [896] PICTURE O F GREAT BRITAIN

(A)

IN THE

YEAR

1793. January 9, 1794. J. Alexander. Unsigned, p i . Cruikshank] BM 8424. In the centre, under the British Constitution, a dome is supported by three Pillars (King, Lords, Commons). Britannia is seated. Fox and his adherents, French and English, and demons attack the structure. On the other side of the design Pitt and the forces of order are entrenched. [896a] PIGMY REVELS OR ALL ALIVE AT LILLIPUT.

Nov. 9th, 1800, Fores, Plate 1. Woodward delin. [?I.C. fecit.] No engraver's name on copy seen at Sessler's, June 1960. A dozen or more pigmy groups, of all occupations and grades of society. [897] PILGRIMS

ON

THEIR

JOURNEY

TO

DEVONSHIRE.

Title on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC] An original drawing, "signed with initials," except for an unknown two of the thirteen in this group. Woodin sale cat., item 249.6 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 8i/8x87/8 in. [8981 • P L A I N MINUET (A) . April 1 ,1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 90 (no page given). [Woodward] [I.] Cruikshahks [sic] scp. BM 9152. A slender beau and a corpulent lady ogle each other as they step through the minuet. [899] PLEASURE (THE) .

OF

BEING

KICR'D

OUT OF

COMPANY

Oct. 2, 1791. D. Peahen, Brighton. Unsigned, ri. Cruikshank] BM 7995. Henry and Augustus Barry being pushed out of doors, while the Prince of Wales, Lord Barrymore and the Due and Duchesse de la Pienna (the hostess) watch. The Barrys had come uninvited to her supper party. [900] •PLUMPERS FOR SR. JUDAS, or the Chealsea [sic] pensioners revenge. Apr. 5, 1784. No pub.

IC (a minute signature, near the bucket). BM 6502. Half-crippled pensioners and a maid with a mop attack Sir Cecil Wray, who proposed to abolish the Chelsea Hospital and to tax maidservants. He was called Judas for deserting Fox. [901] amusements at Cairo. Deer 6, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9274. Broadley. In an ass-race past the Pyramids, two Turks are ahead of two French officers. Bonaparte (?), also on an ass, acts as judge.

PLUNDERER REATING DUPLICITY,—or

[902] POEMS, LETTERS ICC tcC, ASCRIBED TO ROBERT BURNS THE AYRSHIRE BARD not contained in any edi-

tion of his Works hitherto published. Embellished with an elegant frontispiece. Colored folding frontispiece by IC (aided by GC), "The Jolly Beggars." (See also separate listing under /.) [Book] 18mo. London. J. Dick & Wm. Brown. 1809. Blueprinted covers. Pp. 144. P.U.M.C. (not cataloged). Chubbock, no. 46. Not listed in Cohn. A.S.W.R.: The Widener copy is from the Bement collection. [903] , advancing to future happiness. 1st August 1792. R. Sayer. L. 8c W. No. 83. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8215 does not explain the queried I. "Madam will you honor [sic] me with your hand at the Lord Mayor's Ball." She accepts with pleasure. POLITE ALDERMAN

(THE)

[904] • P O L I T E CONGREGATION

(A) .

March 18, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 80 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9143. A universal flow of politeness after the service. [905] • P O L I T E PREACHER

(THE).

Octr. 12, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 57, p. 130. Unsigned. [Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp.] BM 9121. The title, date, publisher, etc., and the words issuing from the speaker's mouth, are all engraved as though printed from type, and not, as hitherto in this series, in a Cruikshankian hand. The clergyman, standing in an upholstered pulpit, begins his sermon with "Noble and polite hearers."

120

eight stars, and a legend, "Much ado about nothing with the deserter."

[906] P O L I T I C A L CARTOON O F E U R O P E ' S DEALING: W I T H

T i t l e written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [1802] [IC] An original drawing, all but two of twenty in this group "signed with initials." From Woodin sale cat., item 249.12 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 95/kX14i/2 in. T h i s cartoon was said by the cataloguer to have been published by W. Holland, April 12, 1802, with the title "Going to cut up a turkey," but I could not find it in the B M list or their list of publishers for 1802. T h e print was included with the drawing in the sale item. TURKEY.

[907] P O L I T I C A L CARTOON O F T H E P I T T ADMINISTRATION.

T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original sketch. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.9 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 9y4xl4s/A in. Pitt is warned to trust to Scotland and to steer clear of Fox. [908] [POLITICAL

DISCUSSION

(A)

] Title

undecipher-

able. [ICk] Watercolor and ink. Undated [? 1798]. P.U.M.C. (p. 3581): Cruik I E 2704. 24x15.5 cm. In GC's hand: "By Isaac Cruikshank the father of George Cruikshank." A meeting of eight or nine men at a table, drinking and smoking, with one man in a blue coat standing and speaking to the rest, who are seated. In the background are other men at tables and one man approaching the table in the foreground carrying two pitchers. T h e r e is no indication as to how this sketch was acquired by Princeton. [909] [ P O L I T I C A L DISCUSSION

(A) ]

[IC] Watercolor. 1800 (?) P.U.M.C. (p. 3581): Cruik I E 2704. Apparently the same as the preceding item, notwithstanding the doubtful difference in dates. [910] •POLITICAL FAIR

(A) .

Octor. 1st 1807. Tegg. Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshank f.] B M 10763: [Williams f.] T h e BM gives a two-page description of all the booths, etc. Dawson's list attributes the engraving to IC. Many figures are characteristic of IC's style. Broadley 1, p. 262. Van Stolk, 6095. A number of booths for various nations, each exhibiting international complications. T h e one for America shows the flag containing but

[911] POLITICAL LOCUST

(THE) .

August 14, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8672. Pitt is depicted as a gigantic locust. A swarm of locusts (French priests) fly above him. A satire on the heavy taxes and the dearth of 1795. Pitt's house had been mobbed in July. [912] •POLITICAL

PAWNBROKERS

(THE) .

May 5, 1793. Fores. IC. B M 8325. Pitt, Dundas and Grenville, behind counters, are taking in gold, the largest items (cups, platters, a crown, chain of office) from the Lord Mayor, trinkets from a trio of Jews, and an offer of brimstone barrels from a Scotsman. This satirizes a loan proposed by Pitt in March, for which there had been only one offer in two months. [913] For the amusement of English Spanish French and Dutch masters and misses. Sep. 9. 1790. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7671. An English sailor knocks down a Spanish don, while a Dutchman bars a foppish Frenchman from going to the assistance of his cousin. This satirizes the Nootka Sound situation, where England appealed to the Dutch for support and Spain invoked the Family Compact with France. [914] P O L L O F HORSELYDOWN. Songhead. Engraved verses Sung by Mr. Grimaldi. Jany 20. 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 455. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10937. A Captain Oakum, lying on cobbles, is looking up belligerently at a young man who has capsized him. Poll watches from the sidewalk. POLITICAL

SPARRING.

[915] T h e tallest, fittest, properest, man to walk before the King!I! Nov 7, 1795. Fores. IC. BM 8724. SWF owner's stamp. A full-length figure in profile of the Marquis of Salisbury, carrying his rod of office as Lord Chamberlain. Above one boot is a garter marked "Home." (As he was a K.G., this is probably a misprint for Honi.) •POLONIUS.

[916]

( T H E ) . T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. [PIC] An original drawing, "with the artist's signature on all but two of the twelve." POOR WOMAN'S C O M F O R T S

121

From the Woodin sale cat., item (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10s/8xl5 in. [917]

PORTER BREWER AND HIS FAMILY

250.5

(THE) —Or t h e

modern druggist. June 8, 1807. Fore [sic]. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10795. A plate criticizing the brewer's custom of adding narcotics, nightshade, opium, etc., to his brew. [918] 'PORTRAIT OF CHARLES i] A wash drawing of a night in armor (about 6 ^ x 1 0 in.). Unsigned. [1C], "with pencilled, authentication signed in full by G. Cruikshank." Item offered by Charles Hamilton (the Gray Octavo cat. L, N.Y., July 1957, no. 480. $12.50).

E

[919]

PORTRAIT OF GFORGE THE THIRD.

^Title i written • on

mount by Temple Scott. [PIC] An original drawing, sold "together with a print of the same," which I have not been able to trace. "Signed by the artist" on all but two of twelve items in this group. From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.4 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 87/gx7 in. [920] PORTRAIT OF JOHN LISTON, THE FAMOUS COMEDIAN.

[Isaac Cruikshank] "An original drawing," probably in watercolor. From the Woodin sale cat., item 248.15 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 3I/2X3 in. [920a]

(1757-1824) . Born in Newfoundland. IC. Original India ink and sepia drawing (half length, three-quarter face). 33/8x2V8 in. (Engraved by G. Murray.) See L. Binyon's Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists in the Dept. of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (vol. 1, p. 350, 1908). A prophet who around 1792 began to prophesy and write revelations, calling himself "Nephew of the Almighty." He was in an asylum for several years until 1806. PORTRAIT

OF

RICHARD BROTHERS

[921]

••PORTRAITS FROM THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE.

Feb. 18, 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 61, p. 141. Woodward del [I.] Cruikshanks sp. BM 9125. Two clergymen in profile (half length); the younger, with a crush hat and smoking a short pipe, wears an aggressive expression.

[921a] PORTSMOUTH YARD ON FIRE te THE ARTS EN AL IN DANGERll

Feby 8, 1808. Fores. Caricatures, 12, 16. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11091. Reid 37. Douglas 1245. A bedroom scene in which the Earl of Portsmouth, in flames, tugs at a bell pull; the lady tries to tear his shirt from his back, and a esrvant hurls the contents of a chamber pot at the flames. POSITIVE LOVE.

[922]

Feb. 7, 1799. Ackermann. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. Not found in BM list. Seen at Sessler's Feb. 1917. Coarse stippling on faces. A portly old man on his knees to a still older angular female, who is thinking it over. "Cast my love thine eyes around." (See companion piece, "Doubtful Love," (item 286), published the same day.) [923]

. A [letters obliterated] or two of a trade can never agree. Novr. 3, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7910. BM does not supply the missing letters. Mrs. Fitzherbert walks by, frowning at Mrs. Jordan. The Duke of Clarence tells the Prince of Wales, who watches impassively, that he and Mrs. J . had also leaped the broom, but that he did it with less gammon (humbug) to the lady's conscience. POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK (THE)

[924]

•PRACTICAL EDUCATION

April 1810. Tegg (Tegg's Caries., no. 5). Woodward delt. [?IC sculp.] BM 11617: [Williams f.]. The appearance of the figures in this plate, and IC's frequent association with Woodward as engraver, suggest the probability that it was engraved by IC. In each of the six pairs of persons, one asks for some ludicrous help, the other giving an absurd answer. The words, etched above the head of each speaker, indicate the askers' want for help in oratory, soldiering, the pulpit, law, drugs, butchering. "PRAY

FORGIVE ME,

[925]

AND I'LL NEVER DO SO NO

MORE!!!" Title written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." 122

F r o m the W o o d i n sale cat., item 246.5 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1 9 4 2 ) . 14x111/ 2 in. " A cartoon based on the dissolute life of the Prince of W a l e s . "

he endures for Chloe's sake. Is this a medical allusion?

[926]

[? 1804. ?Fores] Caries., 2, 129. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 10347. M e n and women in fancy costume and masks include a Harlequin, a Pierrot and a n u n with a monk kissing her hand.

• P R A Y RF.MF.MBFR I S POOR CHILDREEN

[sic],

J u l y 12, 1795. Fores. I.C. B M 8666. T h r e e blue-coat boys (more like monks in brown in my copy) hold out empty begging bowls. Boys from charity schools did at times get money in this way. T h e three are said to represent the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Clarence and the D u k e of York. T h e House of C o m m o n s is in session with the Speaker, Addington, presiding. Pitt stands on one side with a devil b e h i n d him, F o x on the other side. [927] N.d. [?I800. A . S . W . R . (p. 216) gives Apr. 16, 1796] [PHolland] A large plate (12x18 i n . ) . Woodward dclint. IC. Not found in B M catalogue. A dozen preachers, in various clerical costumes, all b e h i n d lecterns. Above each are remarks in keeping with his appearance. •PREACHING

PORTRAITS

[928] PREPARATION

FOR

A

WEDDING

NIGHT.

Feb

28,

1803. W i l l i a m s o n . Caries., 8, 121. Unsigned. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 10186. A fat woman in a t u b using a flesh brush. T w o assistants scrub a leg and dress her hair. A monkey combs his hair at a mirror; a dog looks into the b a t h . [928a] • P R E P A R A T I O N S F O R THF. SPRING

CAMPAIGN.

April 20, 1800. H o l l a n d . Woodward del. IC [sculp], A m i n u t e " I C " may be seen on the side of the desk. Reproduced in W h e e l e r and Broadley, 2, opp. 118. Not found in B M catalogue. A dozen men in u n i f o r m , each with his own task of preparation, b e i n g drilled by a sergeant, practicing shooting, overcoming female objections, getting the u n i f o r m out of a musk chest, etc. [929]

or an English man of war engaging two D u t c h doggers. J u n e 9 1793. Fores. U n s i g n e d . [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 8 3 2 9 ; D e V i n c k 4676. V a n Stolk 5144. M u l l e r 5235. T h e Duke of York between two laughing Dutch courtesans. An English officer, urinating, declares t h a t wine cannot cure the p a i n PREPARATION

FOR

ACTION,

[930] PREPARING F O R A MASQUERADE.

[931] PREPARING TO I N V A D E ! ! !

J u l y 28, 1803. Williamson. ICks. B M 10043. Broadley 1, p. 182; 2, p. 333, no. 729. Napoleon, "scarcely caricatured," pours brandy ( " D u t c h courage") into a glass. T h e sea, covered with boats full of soldiers, lies between a fort, Hying a tricolor, and a distant cliff with a British flag. [932] PRESBYTERIAN

PENANCE.

J a n r y . 1807, T e g g . 260. Allan del. Cruikshank sp. Douglas 1044. R e i d (1, 22) : "engraved from an a q u a t i n t by David Allan, with the same title, later changed to T h e Black Stool; Da. Allan, invent, et tinta—fecit. Ed. 1784. Pub by Tone and Co. July 1, 1788. A.S.W.R., p. 11. A delinquent being severely rebuked by the minister in a Scotch church. O t h e r figures are two officers and near them a girl with a baby and her mother, who is shaking her fist at the culprit, whose wife is seen behind, standing up. A pew-opener is driving out some dogs with a raised broom. [933] PRESERVATION O F CHARLES AND I S A B E L L A

or, the force of friendship. By J . L o n g . Frontispiece by IC. [Book] 12mo. Lon., pp. [ 3 ] - 3 6 . N.d. Chubbock, p. 4 no. 25. Not in C o h n .

(THE) ,

[1803]

[934] Plate first.

May 3, 1794. Fores. ICk. B M 8546. N o other plates traced. Eight grotesque figures, each with an epithet: " C u p i d ' s D r u m m e r , " " T h e r e ' s a S h e w " ; " L o o d " " [ L e w d ] " ; " F o u r by H o n o r s " [cards]; " I C a n ' t Crack i t " ; " a C o m f o r t a b l e P i n c h [snuff]"; "As soft as Possible"; " V e r y Pretty indeed." •PRETTY

PORTRAITS

[935]

April I, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. E x c . : PI. 84 (no page given). •PRIDF. AND E X A L T A T I O N IN A SEDAN C H A I R .

123

Woodward del [I.jCruiks/ianta sculp. BM 9147. T w o dimly seen figures in a sedan chair are carried in the rain by men in livery, one of whom smokes a short pipe. T h e way is led by another holding a torch. Pedestrians pass by under umbrellas.

T h e barber, razor in hand, is about to shave the alarmed bald proctor, whose lower face is covered with suds. [941] PRODIGAL SON

[936] Pub. at Edinburgh, [ca. 1784] A small aquatint (4i/gx6% in.). IC del. BM 6697. Dr. Cullen walks along an Edinburg Street, head bent forward, a hand thrust under his waistcoat. [937] PROCESSION RETURNING F R O M T H E SERVICE IN ST. P A U L ' S CATHEDRAL ON OCCASION O F T H E J U B I L E E (THE) .

Oct. 12, 1809. Tegg. [1.1 Cruikshank. Douglas (1053): "by Isaac Cruikshank." Reid (5087) calls this "returning from cursed cold church with an empty stomach"—an observation made by one of the civic dignitaries. A procession, the Corporation of London in official robes, leaves the cathedral, led by the Recorder, laden with roast beef; next comes the Lord Mayor, flourishing a carving knife and fork; then the aldermen, among whom is Sir William Curtis, carrying stout in a tankard, which is inscribed, "King, Cox, and Curtis." They are exclaiming, "I'll give roast beef in store/When that's gone give us more," &c. T h e Royal Family and suite are leaving the building in the distance. [938] (A) .

May 22, 1792. Holland. Unsigned. [PIC] Probably an IC though not typical of his work. Not found in BM catalogue. Pitt, wearing a foolscap, reads a long proclamation of what will be done to anyone who does anything so as "to alarm the fears, fee. of peaceable [sic] citizens." [939] . Jan. 14, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 53, p. 122. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc. BM 9117. T h e same man as in Plate 51 (next item) now bewigged, examines a plant that the gardener has brought him. • P R O C T O R W I T H A WIG

(A)

[940] (A) . Deer 31, 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 51, p. 121. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc. BM 9115. • P R O C T O R W I T H O U T A WIG

. Title written on mount

by T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 245.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1 9 4 2 ) . 9 3 ^ x 1 4 in. T h e penitent prodigal son is welcomed home by his parents, while servants bring him new boots and clothes. T h i s is apparently a different subject from that of the next item, though it is possible that the print for publication had been considerably changed from the original drawing. I have not seen either.

P R I M A E LINEAE.

• P R O C L A M A T I O N IN L I L L I P U T

(THE)

PRODIGAL

SON

[942] (THE) .

March 25, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank, ?after E. Delaney] BM 1 1 2 6 8 . T h e Duke of York, in uniform, but stripped of all signs of rank, kneels before the King, saying, "Father I have sinned, [etc.]. Make me as one of thy Pensioned Servant" [sic], John Bull, scissors in hand, is glad to see him penitent at last, hoping he may yet become the Hopes of the Family. T h e buildings in the background may have been done by George. [943] PROGRESS O F A CORRUPT SENATOR

( T H E ) . Exemplified in six characteristic designs with illustrations in Verse. By G. M. Woodward. On each plate: Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sc. [Book] Unbound, six plates (10x9S/£ in.) stitched to (printed) title page. Each plate has engraved verses below the design. London. Second edition [ 1 8 0 7 ] . Tegg. Price 4s. plain, or 7s. 6d. in colours. These plates are distinctly better and more artistic than the usual Woodward-Cruikshank work. Acquired by me at the Woodin sale (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1 9 4 2 ) . [944] • • P R O G R E S S O F A CORRUPT

SENATOR.

PI. I. Dec. 17-1806. T e g g .

Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2 6 5 8 . Not in BM catalogue. A separate from the book with the same title; also the first plate in the book mentioned above. In twelve lines of verse (engraved, roman type) the manservant describes how gouty Sir Hugh makes a deal with honest Ralph, a wily clown, to promote his interests. 124

[945] •PROGRESS O F A C O R R U P T SENATOR.

PI. II. N.d. Tege. Woodward del. [I.] Cruckshanks sc. P.U.M.C. Cruik IE 2659. Creditors try to press their claims on Sir Hugh, but the front door is guarded by his trusty servant. [946] •PROGRESS O F A C O R R U P T SENATOR.

PI. III. N.d. Tegg. Woodward del. [l.]Cruikshanks sc. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2660. Raised to be an agent, he cheats his master by making a laborer sign a receipt for double the amount he receives. [947] •PROGRESS O F A C O R R U P T SENATOR.

PI. IV. Jan. 1, 1807. Tegg. Woodward del. [I.] Cruckshanks sc. His master deceased, he takes a liveried servant in his employ and aspires to Parliament. With a heavy purse, he buys a voter's services. [948] •PROGRESS O F A C O R R U P T SENATOR.

PI. V. Jan. 1. 1807. Tegg. Woodward del. [I.] Cruckshanks sc. His seat secured, he joins the opposition, and loudly rails against the Ministry. He swears he never will be bought; but, undisturbed, they think he will shift at the proper time. [949] ••PROGRESS O F A C O R R U P T SENATOR

(THE) .

PI. VI. Jan 1-1807. Tegg. Woodward. del [I.] Cruikshanks sc. Not in BM catalogue. He receives a bribe to do every service that the ministry commands, deserting his former friends. [950] PROGRESS O F A SOLDIER] [?Mar. 9-1796] [Fores] itle, etc., supplied from Mr. Sessler's copy. Woodward delint. IC sc. My copy has been cropped so close for binding that no title, date or publisher remains. However, the dates and publisher's name on the others bound in same volume, as well as the Sessler copy, show that the plate is as given above. The soldier is shown in eight paired figures: preparing to enlist in first pair; resisting Mother in the second; enforcing discipline in the third; warned of foreign service in the fourth; saying good bye to Kitty in the fifth; saying they would not run to the Colonel in the sixth; left for dead in the seventh; being

?

told by a doctor in the eighth that his little finger will soon heal. [951]

[? 1800] [?Fores] Caries., 8, 42. Unsigned. [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9645. Twelve tipsy men, their words etched on the plate above their heads. Below, a crowd of men in the street, all but one carrying bludgeons. [PROGRESS

OF

DRUNKENNESS]

[952] PROGRESS O F PASSION

(THE) .

June 4, 1792. Fores. JN 1792 Etch'd by Cruikshanks. BM 8104: [J. Nixon], Nine scenes in two rows, bearing on Thurlow's anger at his dismissal by the King, who actually treated him considerately. The King had to choose between him and Pitt. [953] • P R O M E N A D E T O A R O U T ON A F A I R EVENING

(A) .

March 25, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 82 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9145. Three couples and a dowager proceed smilingly toward the party. [954] PROSPERO LAND.

AND

CALIBAN

IN

THE

ENCHANTED

IS-

Deer 6, 1798. M-Allen. IC. BM 9275. Pitt as Prospero turns to Fox as Caliban, saying "Hence! fetch us fewel," etc. Shrugging his shoulders, Fox says he must obey. [955]

P R O T E S T A N T ST. GEORGE T O O M U C H F O R A L L T H E

(THE) , or the beast with seven heads. April 4, 1807. Fores. I Ck. BM 10712. The King, as St. George, brandishing a sword ("Coronation Oath") and holding a shield ("Protestant Religion as by Law Established"), opposes a monster with seven heads. The seven heads are designated by the names of Holland, Moira, Sheridan, Grenville and three others. One paw rests on a "Bill . . . Catholic—ArmyNavy." Mrs. Fitzherbert, in black, cries, "Oh Holy Father, we are undone," while the Prince of Wales slips away to hide. TALLONS

[956] •PROVINCIAL WIT—PROVINCIAL

POLITENESS.

March 4, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 65. [p. 151]. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sp. BM 9129. This plate has two compartments. In the upper—"Provincial Wit—a jockey tells an amus-

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ing story to three companions. In the lower— "Provincial Politeness"—a horseman quaffs the ale a teamster has given him. [957]

AFFAIRS (alias croping [sic] of curiosity) or, a specimen of the Laconic. Anecdote of Dean Swift crossing the Liffy, or the Laconic Waterman. An excerpt from Pope's letter to Swift is inserted (in ink) below the part intended for reproduction. I.C. (in pencil). Original colored sketch (9I/8X14I/2 in.). From Woodin sale, (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942), item 184.16. H i e Dean, in the stern of a rowboat, says, "Well John! how is the Old Woman?" The boatman (a well-drawn, healthy specimen): "Very well thank you Doctor!" "Well but Johnl who wears the Breeches now?" "My a—Doctor" (a sample of the coarse language then common). There are also two quotations written in the margin by Collier: "No laconism can reach it [the language of the face] it is the short hand of the mind"; Pope to Swift: " I grow laconic even beyond laconism for sometimes I return only Yes, or No, to epistles of half a yard long." These probably suggested the "Laconic" of the subtitle. Though the Dean's face is weakly done, and most of the lettering not in IC's hand, the IC signature, the boatman and the corrections, in a hand typical of Isaac's, support Temple Scott's statement on the mat that the cartoon is by Isaac. •PRYING

INTO

FAMILY

[958]

Jany 2, 1807. Tegg. Caric. Mag., No. 233, and N i l . Woodward del. [Isaac] Cruikshank. In the Woodin copy (1942) G.Ck. has inscribed "Isaac," and below, "My Father. George Cruikshank." Not in BM catalogue. Of the eight persons around a table, all with remarks issuing from their mouths, one ("All smoke?") has the remark inserted in blue, the rest in same color as background. The landlord gives as the subject for debate, "Do the ministry act right or wrong," but the remarks are quite irrelevant. •PUBLIC HOUSE POLITICIANS.

[959] Now's the time for mirth and glee,—sing 8c laugh and dance with me. 12 Sepr 1795. Laurie & Whittle. 161. Unsigned. In H.E.W. Memorial Room (Harvard). Uncolored. 18.4x23.5 cm. [?I. Cruikshank del.] Attributed by Harvard College Library. BM 8774. Street scene. The showman looks up at the tiny stage with Punch and Judy performing. PUNCH'S PUPPET SHOW.

A monkey, with cocked hat and coat, stands on the showman's shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple woman. A man plays a hurdygurdy; a milkman, his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey drinks; a third monkey crouches on the ground. A young woman, holding out a hat for coins, picks the pocket of a spectator. [960]

(A) . Or the hour glass exhausted. Feby 10, 1794. Aitken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8427. Profiles of Pitt and the King are defined in the two cones of an hourglass. Possibly an expression of public displeasure at the setbacks to British arms on the Continent. PUZZLE OF PORTRAITS

[961] G. A. Stevens in his Lecture on Heads. October 10, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8380. The quack, wearing an old-fashioned wig, rests his elbows on a table, his hands in a large muff. QUACK DOCTOR.

[962] QUALITY

LADDER

(THE) .

Apr. 20, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8378. Reproduced in Fuchs, Die Frau in der Karikatur (1906), p. 356. A spiral staircase with a duchess at the top, then a marchioness, a countess, a viscountess and a baroness. Further down, a baronet's wife stands above a fallen woman, saying, "These mistresses are allways following quality." [963] •QUARRELL [SIC] ABOUT PENSIONS AMICABLY SETTLED (THE). April 13, 1796. Fores. Unsigned.

[I. Cruikshank] BM 8795. Fox says to Burke and the Duke of Bedford, "The less said about the matter the better." [964]

WHIST. October 8, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 26, p. 65. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sc. BM 8955. Four women at cards, two of them quarreling, are watched by three men, while a clergyman speaks with a soldier, and two dogs quarrel in the foreground. •QUARRELING

ABOUT

[965] QUARRELSOME FELLOW

(THE) .

Nov. 21 1789. J . Aiken. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7588. The first of a series of attacks on Philip Thicknesse, depicting him at a writing table, with his writings lying near 126

him. It is probably aimed at hindering the publication of his memoirs. [966]

(THF.) , or startling the game. Deer 6, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8001. T w o Lords had started a fire at Mr. Meynell's hunting box to create a diversion in order to cover their love affairs. When it got out of hand, the household had to be warned and escaped in deshabille. QUORNITFS

DtsTi RB'D

[967]

, or the republican crew disappointed. Janr. 28, 1798. Fores. A long print (934x271/2 in.) . IC. BM 9160. Fox and his friends turn a capstan that pulls in a raft with a flag, "Liberty and Equality." T h e heads of Pitt and two colleagues blow hostile winds from the sky over Fox and the raft. This is one of a number of prints satirizing the rumor of a huge raft being built at Brest to ferry Napoleon's army across the Channel. [968] RAGF. (THF.) or shepherds I have lost my waist. December 1, 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8570. A tall and a short stout woman, the latter refusing tarts and jellies offered by a footman. T h e verses beneath the design are the same as those in Newton's plate, published by Holland on November 12. •RAFT

IN

DANGF.R

(THF.)

[969]

N O A H — o r the invaders up to their b ch in business. July 26, 1804. Williamson. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10260. Britannia, sitting on a rock, emits a copious stream, which devastates the minute invaders headed by Napoleon. RAINY

sion's procurer, laments that it will not bring grist to his mill, which he will have to move to Charing Cross.

WEATHER

RAPE OF HFLFN

Aprill [sic] 10. 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8166. T h e fat Mrs. Hobart, keeper of a notorious faro table, being carried off by Paris, who wears a laurel wreath. [973] RAPID F A L L O F T H F GREAT RIVER STOCKS

[974] • R E C E N T ESCAPE

[I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 8705.

Pitt, spattered with mud, tells the smiling Fox that this is the effect of his patriotism. Fox paraphrases Macbeth, "Why dost thou shake thy dirty locks at me? Muddy Banquo." Fox and the opposition were violently against Pitt's severe measures.

March 17th 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 1 1257. Mrs. Clarke and four women with exposed posteriors send blasts against a windmill (Commission Warehouse), which pivots on the head of the Duke of York. Greenwood, the Commis-

[975] (A) .

Feby. 1 8 , 1 7 9 7 . Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 64, p. 147. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sculp. BM •••RECRUITING PARTY

9128.

An officer, with drawn sword, exhorts some gaping yokels while a drummer boy and fifer play martial music behind him. [976]

RECRUITS.

Title written on mount by Temple

Scott. IC. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.9 ( P a r k e - B e r n e t G a l l . , 1 9 4 2 ) . 6I/ 2 X11 in. [977]

20th Nov. 1795. Laurie & Whittle. 164. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8777. A wizard raises grotesque demons from flames before two terrified spectators. [971]

(A).

Dec. 1, 1795. Fores. Unsigned.

[970]

RAISING T H E WIND.

(THF.) .

April 1, 1803. Williamson. I. Ck. Seen in Sessler's collection, no. 80., February 28, 1917. Not found in BM catalogue. Three men fishing for scrip, consols, etc.

MASTER

RAISING E V I L SPIRITS.

[972] (THE) .

R E F L E C T I O N S ON T H E FRENCH R E V O L U T I O N .

Jany 1, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. I. Cruikshank. BM 8285. In Spencer's list of 1929.

Burke, speaking in the House of Commons, with a dagger in each hand, castigates the assassins, Republicans, Exporters of Treason et al. Actually, in a speech on December 28, made to help keep the French infection out of England, he had said that any public connection with Fox was no longer possible. This shows how greatly his sentiments toward the French Revolution had changed since 1790. (See IC's original sketch and the Hol-

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land cartoon of January 1, 1790 under the title, "Frontispiece to Burke's Reflections, etc.," items 401 and 403.) [978] REFRESHMENT AT AN INN ON GOING TO

TOWN.

Title written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 243.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7x91/» in. A man and woman are seated on a tired horse, which looks eagerly at a jug held by a barmaid. [979] 'REHEARSING A COTILLON.

April 2, 1792. Fores. Large (18x22i/2 in.). I. Nixon 1792 (in Roman letters). Etched by I. Cruikshank (in IC's script). BM 8210. Reproduced in G. Vuillard's History of Dancing, 1898, 2, 428. Offered by Sower, a California dealer, in 1960, for $75; "excessively rare." Several couples dancing, four musicians in a balcony, three dandies and a woman in a mob cap watching. [980] RENUNCIATION OF AN EX NOBLE NOW BECOME A REPUBLICAN SANS-CULOTTE CITIZEN (THE) .

june 10, 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8468. A satire on Stanhope as a republican, fouling and damaging all things about him. T h e third Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), politician and man of science, married Hester, sister of William Pitt; became estranged from Pitt on French Revolution question; moved to acknowledge French Republic, 1794; proposed peace with Napoleon, 1800. [981] RENVERSEMENT

(THE) .

Febr 3, 1792. Fores. Unsigned, il. Cruikshank] BM 8157. Lady Cecilia Johnston has fallen on her back with a goat standing over her. A subtitle states: "Buffon says the Great Grey Goat is so Rank that after long Abstinence it will court anything ." [982] •REPARTEE

(A) .

July 4th, 1801. Fores. Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshank f.l BM 9806: [Williams f.]. This appears more like Cruikshank's engraving than Williams'. Compare it to the girl in Plate 44 of "Eccentric Excursions." When a raffish-looking man says to a buxom young lady, "My dear, I have seen you before," she replies over her shoulder, "Have you Sir? Then now you may see me behind."

[983] REPORT OF THE INTERESTING TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF J O H N BULL.

Col'd fold, frontisp. by I. Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. T . & R. Hughes. 1807. Cohn sale cat., p. 126, no. 862a. [984] REPUBLICAN BEAU (A) . A picture of Paris for 1794. March 10, 1794. Fores. I. Cruikshank Del. BM 8435. De Vinck 6113. A French ruffian, at the height of the Reign of Terror (September 1793 to July 1794), covered with weapons, glares fiercely about him. A guillotine stands on the altar, and a gibbet with three bodies in the background. A companion piece to "A Republican Belle" (item 986). [985] REPUBLICAN BEAU (A) . A picture of Paris for 1794. [I. Cruikshank del.] Houghton Library (Harvard) . Small. A poor reproduction of the previous item, reduced to the size of a lottery puff. It is of interest especially because of the following printed addition: "This is a copy of an etching made by my Father Isaac Cruikshank, during the Revolution in Paris in 1794 & copied by me G.C. while the Revolution was raging in Paris in 1871." [986] . A picture of Paris for 1794. Mar. 10 1794. Fores. IC. BM 8436. De Vinck 6114. Reproduced, Fuchs, Die Frau in der Karikatur (1906), p. 463. Wright refers to this as one of the earliest of IC's that he had seen. SWF owner's stamp in lower corner. A French virago, with a ribbon in her blowing hair, on which is "War Eternal War," shoots a fallen man. In the background is an inn, with the head of Louis XVI as the inn sign, and a naked figure hanging by the neck. •REPUBLICAN BELLE

(A)

[987] REPUBLICAN SOLDIER!

(THE) .

May 12, 1794. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9204. Fox wearing a bonnet-rouge with tricolor cockade and an armlet, "Sinew of Rebellion." Above the design: "Discharged his Majesty's Service." [988] RESIST UNTO BLOOD. The true Christian warfare, the spirit against the flesh. [Feb. 17, 1791. Fores] I. Cruikshank: Del. BM 8004. 128

T w o parsons fighting in Hendon churchyard. T h e mourners, standing by the open grave, are pushed back by the undertaker to make a ring. A bishop bets with a dandy on the result. [989] RESURRECTION M E N DISTURB'D or a guilty conscience needs no accuser. Fores. 28 Mar. 1794. [I.] Cruikshank. 1794. Seen by me in the Harvard College Library. Fores's mark, S.W.F., stamped in corner. Grave-robbers, seen in semidarkness removing three corpses, are frightened by a loud noise, which comes from an ass braying. Only this head is seen protruding into the picture. [990] [ • R E T A I L DEALERS IN STRAW] Title supplied by me from the text. Deer 17, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 44., p. 107. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank de. [sic]. Not catalogued by BM. A comely girl, carrying baskets, accompanies a hag who has a basket hanging from her arm and grasps a stout staff. A ferocious dog walks beside them. [991] RETIRED F R O M BUSINESS [1799. Laurie 8c Whittle] A droll. 234. Caries., 2, 126. Unsigned. [?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 212. BM 9500 names no artist. A stout citizen stands at his country-house door, arm in arm with his wife and daughter. Under the title is written, "Not visit me—got money enough, don't care a F — t for anybody." [992] RETURN F R O M PIZARRO

FROM

[995] REVOLUTION.

Aug 3d 1790. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7665. Louis XVI bites on "A New Constitution," while he urinates a stream inscribed "Despotism." Mirabeau says, "It will burst and make him go of [sic] like de Bastile." T h e Duke of Orleans reviles the King; Lafayette, in regimentals, says he will free his countrymen. [996] RHYMS TERIAL

A R O U T ON A RAINY

NIGHT.

Mar. 25, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. E x c : PI. 83 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp. BM 9146. Five persons under umbrellas, one lit by a link boy, proceed disconsolately from an open door, marked " T h e Original Shop." [994] REVIEW (A) O F T H E POLL TAX. T i t l e written on mount in autograph of Temple Scott. [IC] An original drawing, "signed with initials," except for an unknown two of the thirteen in this group.

[ s i c ] FOR GROWN NURSERY.

BABIES

IN

THE

MINIS-

Octr 1809. J. Fairburn. [G (? and I]) Cruikshank d. BM 11380. Reid 84. Cohn 1901. Six designs with parodies of nursery rhymes, adapted to the politics of the day, etched over each: 1. Ride a Cock Horse (Chatham and the Walcheren fiasco). 2. Och, my Canning (the Canning and Castlereigh d u e l ) . 3. See Saw Crush em with Law (Percival glaring at T h e Independent W h i g ) . 4. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary (Mrs. Clarke and the Duke of York). 5. Sing a Song of Sixpence (the King gazes through his opera glass at heads breaking through a pie). 6. Girls and Boys come out to Play (Sir William Curtis, with a live turtle in his arms, promises a celebration to be held shortly).

(THE) .

J u n e 5, 1799. Atkin. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9399. Sheridan's melodramatic adaptation of Kotzebue's drama, the first command performance in four years. It gave Mme Pizarro much publicity. [993] •RETURNING

From the Woodin sale cat., item 49.7 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10i/ 8 xl47/ 8 in.

•RIDDLE

[997] (A) , or the dignity of a (1807.) Tegg. Caries., 10, 77.

EXPOUNDED

parson's horse 136. Woodward delt. [?I. Cruikshanks sp.] BM 10904: [Williams f.]. T h e difficulty of assigning an unsigned engraving has already been noted in earlier items. T h e riddle: a parson's horse is like a king because he is guided by a minister. [997a] • R I G H T HONORARLE (A).

[SIC] ALIAS A SANS CULOTTE

Dec. 20, 1792. Fores. IC. BM 8142. See also same title with "man of the people" added (June 14, 1793, BM 8332). Fox, divided down the middle, stands astride the Channel. On the one side he is a ragged sans-culotte, with a red, white and blue shirt and wielding a club; on the other side, he is

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dressed in court costume, with powdered hair, holding a document against levellers. One half of him cries, "Ca Ira Ca Ira"; the other, "God save great George our King." Beneath the title, on the Sans-Culotte side: "How happy could I be with either/Were I but the Chief of the Throng"; on the other side: "But D a — n it as I can get Niether [sic]/I'll take either Part of the Song." One of the best of the many satires aiming at Fox's duplicity. [998] •RIGHT OWNER

(THE) .

OF

THE

O.P.

WAR (THE) in Poetic Epistles etc, with illustrative notes by Thomas Tegg. [I] Cruikshank fec't. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I 1818.2 In Cohn's copy is written, "Not by me, G.C.," in G.C.'s handwriting. Cohn 786: "The folding frontisp. varies in different copies, being found with any one of the 6 plates, "The Stroller's Progress,' which show the career of J. P. Kemble under the pseudonym of Black Jack." Cohn states, "These plates are chiefly the work of Isaac, but doubtless George had something to do with them." (See also item 1160 et seq.) [Book] 8vo. Pp. 180. London. T. Tegg. 1810. [1001] or who shall deliver Europe. July 10, 1800. Fores. Unsigned. [PIC del. and/or sculp.] BM 9544: [Ansell]. Broadley (1, 135), who attributes the plate conjecturally to IC, points out that it has many of his characteristic touches and regards the portrait of Buonaparte as the best yet attempted by any English caricaturist. Pitt, with forceps marked "Income Tax," RIVAL ACCOUCHEURS

(THE)

July 4, 1800. Garbaneti. IC. Not IC's usual portrait of Napoleon. Not found in BM catalogue. On a plate divided into two sections, Pitt (left), with a decanter of port beside him, dreams of marching to Paris and annihilating the First Consul. T o the right, Bonaparte dreams that he will not allow his schemes to be crossed and will march to London. [1003] • R I V A L PIGS

(THE) .

June 15, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8660. Pitt, drawn as a pig seated on a chair, but with his own head, and designated "Guinea Pig," says, "Poor Piggy"; Fox, mostly black, a "Pig without a Guinea," replies, "You be Damd." [1004] . or a political heat for Rege 8c Grege. Feby 1, 1789. Fores. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 7501 names no artist. Mrs. Fitzherbert armed with a crucifix attacks Mrs. Schwellenburg, who wields a regal sceptre. Mrs. F. is supported by the Prince of Wales; Mrs. S. by Pitt. Neither man has the customary appearance given him by the cartoonist so that Isaac's authorship is doubtful. • R I V A L QUEENS

[1000] PROGRESS AND TERMINATION

[1002] • R I V A L DREAMERS ( T H E ) .

June 1, 1804. Williamson. I Ck. BM 10250. Broadley 1, 216 (reproduction) . Napoleon (one of IC's later types), seated on a throne, flinches before King Louis arising out of clouds. [999] RIGHTS O F MAN alias French liberty alias entering volunteers for the Republic. May 7, 1791. Fores. IC. BM 7853: " T h e date 1791 is perhaps an error for 1793. T h e Republic was not proclaimed till 22 Sept. 1792." Bound recruits are led off by French officers; others are dragged by ropes. Some of the ragged men have some sign of the foppery which English caricature associated with French poverty: one has a ruffled shirt sleeve, another's hair is fashionably arranged. RISE,

and Dundas are opposed to Napoleon. Pitt recommends mint seed; Napoleon is sure that his pills (cannon balls) are far more certain and much quicker. Dundas, dressed as a Harlequin in Scotch plaid, as Secretary of War holds a salt box (representing taxes), while in his pocket is seen a packet marked "Mint seed for my own practice" (a forecast of his financial troubles).

RIVALS ( T H E )

(THE)

[1005] . Title written on mount by Tem-

ple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor, "signed by the artist." "A finished painting." From the Woodin sale cat., item 242.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7I/8X9I/2 in. A lass sits knitting in her cottage doorway, while an officer courts her. A yokel passes by with his dog, and glares at his rival. [1005a] POETS. Resignation, by Dr. Edward Young. T h e Dying Christian to his Soul and Ode to Solitude by Alexander Pope, Esqr. Hymn on Gratitude by Addison, &c. ROACH'S

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BEAUTIES O F T H E

[I- Cruikshank delt. G: Murray sculp, [ca. 1795 This single page in the H.E.W. collection (Harvard) is undoubtedly the title page of a book, corresponding to the several volumes of Roach's "Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers," just following this item. [1005b] • R O A C H ' S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS IN PROSE, NO.

3.

Shepherdess of the Alps (See also 1009, another No. 3). Cruikshanks delt. Sansom sculpt. 12mo. ["London] J. Roach. Sep. 30, 1795. Three lines of verse tell how the girl, sitting leaning against a tree, sees a young shepherd in a cleft in the rocks tending his sheep in the valley below. ROACH'S AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS O F T H E GREEN ROOM

See Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room (item 39). [1006] •ROACH'S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS OF PROSAIC WRITER. Carefully selected for the young and

rising generation. Containing pieces, Moral and Entertaining, Classical and Historical Orations, Characters, Narratives, Dialogues, 8cc. &c. Embellished with superb engravings. Plates and Vignettes by I.C. and others. [Book] 12mo. J. Roach. London. 1795. Four volumes: Vol. 1 (240 pp.), four numbers with index to Vol. 1; Vol. 2 (240 pp.), four numbers; Vol. 3 (234 pp.), four numbers; Vol. 4 (238 pp.), four numbers, with index to Vol. 4. Each volume has a table of contents, which in my set has been bound (mid-19th c.) at random through the four volumes. Each number contains several brief articles, extracted usually from well-known writers, and listed on the engraved title page. Eight of the sixteen numbers, having a connection with IC, are dated as separate items following this item. T h e title pages bear in boldface: "At the Britannia Printing Office." Most numbers also contain an engraving illustrating the text. These and the frontispiece to Vol. 1 are mostly designed by Cruikshank (name spelled variously) and engraved by Reading, Barlow or Sansom. On the flyleaf of my copy is written "Extremely rare." [1007] •ROACH'S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS WRITERS Carefully selected, etc.

OF

PROSAIC

Frontisp. to Vol. 1. Cruikshanks delt. Reading sculpt. 12mo. London. Printed by and for J. Roach, etc. Dec. 31, 1794. A seminude female paints the description for a seated Britannia.

[1008] •ROACH'S WRITERS,

BEAUTIFUL

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. I. T h e Character of Martin Luther (Robertson); T h e Story of Lefevre (Sterne); T h e Story of the Maiden Tower, the Resignation of the Emperor Charles the Fifth (Robertson); T h e Story of LaRoche (Mirror); T h e Character of Julius Caesar (Middleton). Title page to Vol. 1. Cruikshanks Del. Reading sculp. A vignette of a sick old man, with daughter sitting at the foot of the bed, being visited by the doctor. 12mo. London, Printed for & by J. Roach, etc., July 31, 1795. [1008a] ••ROACH'S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS O F PROSAIC WRITERS. No. II. T h e Dupe of Love and Friend-

ship, &c. (Griffiths); Columbus's discovery of America (Voltaire); T h e Private Life of Aemilius Scipio (Rollins); Romulus to the People of Rome (Hooke); On Human Grandeur (Goldsmith); T h e Captive (Sterne). 12mo. London. J. Roach. Aug. 31. 1795. [?I. Cruikshank del.] Reading invenit Sculp. A vignette discloses a mother with a child and dog walking toward a homestead in the hills. ROACH'S BEAUTIFUL WRITERS. N o . I V .

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

See no. 1118, "So saying he leaned his breast." [1009] •ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. III. T h e Shepherdess of the Alps (Marmontel); Comparison of Cicero 8c Demosthenes (Blair) ; T h e Story of a Disabled Soldier (Goldsmith); Patience Exemplified in the Story of an Ass (Sterne); Junius Brutus over the Dead Body of Lucretia (Livy); 8cc. (Title page) (See also another No. III.) 12mo. London. Printed for and by J. Roach, etc. Sepr. 30th 1795. Cruikshanks delt. Sansom sculpt. A shepherd and shepherdess with sheep in hilly country. T h e title, artists, etc., appear on an engraving in this number but with the subject treated differently. [1010] EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. IV. The Way to Wealth (Franklin) ; T h e Dangerous Effects of a Wrong Education (Griffiths); Yorick's Death (Sterne); On the Great Historical Ages (Voltaire); T h e Character of Francis the First (Robertson); T h e Story of Obidah, or the Journey of a Day (Johnson); Mercy Recommended (Sterne). Title page). I. Cruikshank delt. F. Sansom sculpt. 12mo. London. J. Roach. Octr. 31st 1795.

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A man, woman and little boy in a graveyard, with "Alas, poor Yorick" faintly etched on a flat stone in front of them (illustrating the third of the above titles).

[I. Cruikshank delt.] 12mo. London. J. Roach. Feby. 1st. 1796. Werther sits pensively at a table before a small house in romantic surroundings.

[1011]

[1014]

•ROACH S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS OF WRITERS No. V. T h e Story of Valmore

PROSAIC

and Julia (Griffiths); Incle and Yarico (The Spectator); General Reflections on what is called Good Taste (Rollin); T h e Vision of Mirza (The Spectator}; Voyage of Life, an Allegory (Johnson) . (Title page). [.] Cruikshank delt. Sansom sculpt. 2mo. London. For and by J. Roach. Nov. 30, 1795. A young man reclines against a young woman who is seated on a bank (illustrating the first of the above titles). [1011a]

f

• R O A C H ' S B E A U T I F U L EXTRACTS IN PROSE. N O .

•ROACH'S BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS OF PROSAIC WRITERS. N O . VI. Julia, or Adventures of a

Curates Daughter (McMillan); On the Iliad of Homer, on the Odyssey and on the Beauties of Virgil (all by Blair). (Title page). l.] Cruikshank delt. Sansom sculpt. 2mo. London. For and by / . Roach. Dear. 31st 1795. See also the set of six listed as Julia's Journey to London. T h e illustration on the title page is different from and inferior to those in the other set. T h e vignette shows Julia brought before a magistrate by a watchman carrying a lantern. [1012a]

i

• R O A C H ' S B E A U T I F U L EXTRACTS IN PROSE. N O . V I .

(Cont'd) 12mo. [London] [Nov. 30 ,1795]. Cruikshank del. Reading sculpt. T h e vignette shows Julia and her father leading the van, and the rest (the servants) following. ROACH'S EXTRACTS IN PROSE. Sterne's Alas, Marial See Sterne's Maria (no. 1155a). [1013] BEAUTIFUL

EXTRACTS

OF

BEAUTIFUL

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

PROSAIC

No. VII. T h e Sorrows of Werter; On the Love of Life (Goldsmith); T h e Story of Miss Williams (Griffiths); Maria (Sterne). (Title page). Unsigned.

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. VIII. Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Goldsmith) ; Life of Lady Jane Grey (Goldsmith); T h e Story of Sir William Sidney and the Story of Miss Warner (Griffiths); T h e Unfortunate Wife, or the History of Desdemona (The Spectator), &c. 8ec. (Title page). Unsigned. ? Cruikshanks del.] 2mo. London. J. Roach. March 1st, 1796. Queen Mary sits in a prison cell praying before a crucifix. T h e etching of the death of Rizzio, signed by IC, a few pages later, suggests that he also designed this prison scene.

V

(Contd.) 12mo. [London] J. Roach. Nov. 3, 1795. Cruikshank delt. Sansom sculpt. T h e vignette shows a seated elderly man (M. Forhele) with his left arm in a sling, and two women, one of whom curtseys to Valmore. [1012]

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

•ROACH'S WRITERS.

[1015] EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. IX. T h e History of Fair Rosamond and two other titles. (Title page, unsigned.) [?I. Cruikshank del.] 12mo. London. For and by J. Roach, at the Britannia Printing Office, May 1st, 1796. In a beautiful garden, a maid bends on one knee to her mistress. T w o other titles: T h e Disadvantage of a Bad Education (Johnson); T h e History of Jane Shore, Sec. [1016] EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. X. T h e Reward of Virtue (Walsh Junr) [and three other titles]. (Title page, unsigned.) [?I. Cruikshank del.] 12mo. London. For & by J. Roach, July 1st, 1796. T w o young couples are greeted by an elderly lame woman at the door of her cot. A church on a hill in the background. Three other titles: Emilia, or the Unforced Repentance (Griffiths); the Complaints of the Five Senses (Trusler); On the Beauty and Happiness of an Open Behavior, Sec. fee. (Knox). [1017] EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. XI. T h e Ramble of a Benevolent Man, and On Contentment (Knox) [and three other titles], (Title page, unsigned.) 12mo. London: By ir for J. Roach, August 1, 1796. [?I. Cruikshank del.]

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A sailor bids his wife farewell as a boat approaches to take him aboard a man of war. T h r e e other titles: On Enjoyments of Early T i m e s (Goldsmith) ; T h e T h u n d e r s t o r m . A View of R u r a l Life, and Female Adventures (Pratt) ; Benevolence and the H u m a n i t i e s (Blair), 8cc. fee. [1018] •ROACH'S WRITERS.

BEAUTIFUL

EXTRACTS

OF

PROSAIC

No. XIII. T h e Shepherds of the Pyrenees (Mad. de Genlis) ; T h e Story of the Comte De Bernis (Mrs. Griffiths) ; Magnanimity Exemplified. Vanity and the Accidents of Life, (Pratt) fee. fee. (Title page, unsigned.) [?I. Cruikshank del.] 12mo. London. By & for J. Roach, Jany. 1st, 1797. T w o horsemen accost a kilted Highlander, who is leaning on his claymore. [1019] • R O A C H ' S NEW AND C O M P L E T E HISTORY O F T H E STAGE FROM ITS ORIGIN TO ITS PRESENT STATE.

Anonymous. (Engraved frontispiece and title page). Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. [Book] 12mo. Pp. 144. London. J. Roach. May 16, 1796. "Intended as a companion to R's Authentic Memoirs of the Green R o o m . " Names thirteen actors not included in the companion work, with many more mentioned through the text. T h e history of the stage from ancient times is briefly sketched, then the progress of the Royal TTieatres under different managers. [1020] ROAST BEEF AT

AMIENS.

Jan: 20, 1801. W. Hixon. IC. BM 9841. A complacent Cornwallis distributes beef to his guests—Spain, France, Holland—while the negotiations by Spain and H o l l a n d languish unsatisfactorily. [1021]

Sung by J o h n Moyne. Laurie & Whittle. Dec. 12, 1806. 450. Unsigned. [Isaac and Geo. Cruikshank] O n e authority on the Cruikshanks calls this " u n d o u b t e d l y the work of Isaac Cruikshank." BM 10691 names no artist. Cr. Momus: Isaac & George Cruikshank. P.U.M.C. (p. 3582) : Cruik. IE 2790. Holding her infant in her arms, Rosabell waves farewell to a troop ship. ROSABELL.

[1022] ROSSE CASTLE.

[chapbook] 8vo. No other data. (See [Chap-

books] Eight b o u n d in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 133, item 767g. [1023] ROUT

(A) .

Jany 26, 1790. Fores. Etched by Cruikshanks. IC 1790 (in u p p e r corner, reversed). BM 7746. Of thirty-seven figures, seventeen have numbers referring to names etched beneath the design. Mrs. Faw—kn—r, Mr. and Mrs. Ch—It—n, Mr. Eth—ngt—n, Mr. Tr—tt—r, Mr. anil Mrs. St—nh—pe, etc. Most of them are caricatured. [1024] or N a t u r e will prevail!! fan. 1, 1808. Tegg. 130. Woodward del. I. Cruikshank scp. BM 10903. Reid 20. Douglas 1042. Broadley 1, 250. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2665. A countryman, sitting at his kitchen table, tells his wife, reading from a paper, what he'd d o if Bonnypart made him a king (apropos King J e r o m e ) . She gives her opinion that "As Bonnypart be making kings every day" her spouse would have a chance in France, a n d asks what he would do if he were a king. H e replies with the old joke that he would swing on a gate all day, and eat fat bacon. ROYAL A M U S E M E N T ,

[1025] ( T H E ) , or Gulliver putting out the patriots of Lilliput!!! Decern 1, 1795. Fores. IC. BM 8701. My copy is stamped "SWF" (i.e., Fores' own copy). A huge figure of Pitt holds in one h a n d a lantern, "For protecting his Majesty's person," and in the other an extinguisher, "For preventing seditious meetings." Small figures of Fox and supporters are about to be extinguished. T h i s is a satire on the Treason a n d Sedition Bill, which was made into law seventeen days later. It is regarded by Wright and others as one of Isaac's best concepts. •ROYAL

EXTINGUISHER

[1026] Sept. 24, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 21, p. 50. Woodward del [I.] Cruikshank sc. BM 8950. A stagecoach, on ten very small wheels, drawn by a single horse, accommodates sixteen passengers, mostly on the roof. [•THE

ROYAL GEORGE]

[1027] . A sketch for a VICEroy!! February 22, 1797. Fores. Unsigned. BM 8988: [I. Cruikshank] A half-length portrait of the Prince of Wales. Peculiar marks on his neck look like insects. "Jasey" was a term for a bob-wig, which he •ROYAL

133

JASEY

(THE)

wore while riding. T h e intentional erasure refers to his former mistress, Lady Jersey. ROYAL J E S T E R

(THE)

[1034]

See Bon T o n Royal Jester (item 78). RECREATION.

J a n . 7, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8607. A general (Suvaroff) brings to the Empress Catherine decapitated heads of Polish women a n d children. T h e bust of Fox (by Nollekens) looks askance at the Empress. [1029] • R O Y A L SALUTE

(A) .

Novr 24, 1791. Fores. IC (minute, below figure of Lord Barrymore) . BM 7920. T h e Prince of Wales about to kiss the new Duchess of York. In my copy, names of several others awaiting their turn (Bedford, Barrymore, Dunstan, Sheridan, Fox, Pitt, Burke, dukes of York and Clarence) have been written in pencil in an early hand. [1030] • R O Y A L SOLDIER ON HIS M A J E S T Y ' S SERVICE ( T H E ) .

H e would be a soldier the sweet Willy O. T h e first of all swains that gladdened the plains. All n a t u r e obeyed him the sweet Willy O! May 10, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9203. Wheeler and Broadley 1, (reproduced opp. p. 195, with engraved title " H e would be a soldier.") A much elongated Pitt in u n i f o r m stands at attention. [1031] ROYAL URINEAD ( T H E ) . By T . Hague. Folding frontispiece by I. Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. W. Horseman. 1808. Cohn sale cat., no. 822. [1032] RURAL LANDSCAPE AFTER A STORM. T i t l e Written on m o u n t by T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 247.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 6 i / 2 x l l in. A pair of farm horses is being driven over the land, while a farmer sows his seeds. A windmill in the distance is arched by a rainbow. I n the words of the cataloguer, "the peace after the storm is almost communicable." [1033] [sic] IN URBA or the Wimbledon, Gallant— Jany 8th, 1810. Fores. [I.] Cruikshank del. BM 11601. Illustrating how some "manifest a system of economy even in their Amours." Sir William RUSH

( T H E ) —with his seconds, thirds, bottleholder 8cc. coming in for their share. Jan. 30th 1801. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9701. King George, as a boxer, is defeating the Czar Paul (Petersburg), who has one eye covered by a patch (Malta). T h e Czar's second, King of Denmark (Copenhagen), and third, King of Sweden (Stockholm), sprawl on the gTound, while the King of Prussia (in uniform) holds the bottle. Pitt, in full armor, encourages his old master. T h r e e days earlier, the Czar had published a challenge to settle the war by personal combat. •RUSSIAN BRUISER GETTING HIS DOSE

[1028] •ROYAL

Rush, to whom this refers, was knighted in 1800. T h i s perhaps is a reissue.

[1035] RUSSIAN COLOSSUS

(THE) .

July 15, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9408. Suvaroff holds a French army in the crook of each elbow. This refers to the Moreau and Macdonald defeats in Italy. [1036] or the lock'd jaw and frostbitten nose. Dec. 1. 1808. Laurie & Whittle. [I] Cruikshank Del. BM 11210. Cr. Momus (p. 54) : Isaac & George Cruikshank. P.U.M.C. (p. 3582) : Cruik E 2805. After a nuptial night of three months they quarreled, but she couldn't speak because her tongue was frozen, and when she pulled his nose it broke off, frostbitten. •RUSSIAN NUPTIALS;

[1037] RUSTICS ALARM'D AT T H E APPEARANCE O F A LONDON BUCK. 1790. N o publisher named [Laurie

& Whittle, No. 63]. Isaac Cruikshank. A colored print (see carics., 2, 141). From Woodin sale cat., p. 89 (second session) , no. 323, in first of three folio vols. Sold at Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942, under the heading "Fashion in Caricature," paragraph 2, fourth item. [1038] ( T H E ) . Heading to 17 printed verses: A whimsical ballad. 25th March, 1805. Laurie & Whittle. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10501. A sailor, standing in a boat rowed by monsters, is seized by the ghost of a woman he deserted. A fierce pregnant woman seizes his scarf, as smoke surrounds them. T h e verses describe how he was forced into a small boat, SAILOR AND T H E GHOST

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which sank "in a flame of fire, which made the sailors all admire!" [1039] •SAILOR

AND THF. QUACK

DOCTOR

(THF.) 1!

N.d.

[? 1807] Tegg. Caries., 8, 102. Woodward del. Cruikshank Sp. B M 10896. A sailor with his cheek bandaged visits the doctor, as he doesn't think it of enough consequence for the ship's surgeon. "Sign a certificate of your cure, and I'll take you in hand immediately on paying down two guineas!" A quack trick that unfortunately is sometimes still practiced today. [1040] ••SAILOR

AT

A

QIAKER'S

FUNERAL

(A).

N.d.

[? 1807] Tegg. N6 (on one print) ; 114 (on the other). Woodward del. I. Cruikshank sp. BM 10902. R e i d 19. Douglas 1041. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2535. At a burial in a churchyard a Quaker says, "Alas! There is no happiness on this side of the grave." T h e sailor, facing him across the opening replies, "Why then you lubber don't you come on this side.' [1041] SAILOR

(A)

IN HIS CABIN ABOARD A MAN O F WAR.

I.C. An original "water-color drawing." From the Woodin sale cat., item 250.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 5i/ 2 x8i4 in. [1042]

[ • S A I L O R T R I E S TO AWAKEN

A SLEEPING

BEAUTY

(A) ] An original painting (2y 8 x25/ 8 in.). Unsigned. [Isaac Cruikshank] Vouched for by Grasberger. A sailor clad in striped pants and red jacket, wearing a black hat, tries with gestures to awaken an attractive young woman, asleep in a large bed. Her brown hair escapes from a lace night cap. One arm lies across her exposed bosom; the other arm is half extended across the pillow. T h i s was obtained from George Grasberger (who identified it as an original I C ) , and given me by F. E. Dixon in 1924. It is a fine example of Isaac's artistic charm and his ability to create a good effect with a few lines and colors. [1043] •SAILOR'S DEFENCE

(THE) .

[1807] Tegg No. 6. Woodward del. Not signed by engraver. [I. Cruikshank sc.] Reid 34. Douglas 1048. P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2664. A.S.W.R., p. 10, no. 20 of Caric. Mag., Vol. 4. (listed as Tegg Cruikshank No. 6.)

A vigorous sailor, brought before a magistrate, explains that when he knocked down the complainant he meant no harm and had nothing in his hand but his fist. [1043a] SAILOR'S

SWEETHEART.

IC. Original watercolor with pen outlines. 111/2x8% in. In Laurence Bunyon's Cat. of Drawings in Dept. of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Vol. 1, p. 349, 1908). A sailor sits on a gun carriage of a man-ofwar with his arm around a girl's neck, holding a glass of beer in his other hand. Another sailor occupies the right foreground. T w o others and a girl appear in left foreground. [1044] SAILOR'S W I L L

( T H E ) , AND HIS P O W E R ; o r , a

pic-

ture of Portsmouth Point. Septr. 1. 1808. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 494. Heading to printed verses Sung by Mr. Emery. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del ] B M 11204. In the copy in Cohn sale cat. (lot 1023k) GC has written, "From a Drawing by My Father, Isaac Cruikshank." A sailor offers consolation to his girl on board ship, while she slips his "will" (i.e., power of attorney) to another lover. [1045] Heading to Carey's well known poem. 9th November, 1805. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 411. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] B M 10512. T h e apprentice in a cobbler's shop is discovered by his master as he is about to embrace Sally. SALLY

IN OUR A L L E Y .

SALUS

IN

[1046] PETIT.

FUGA

LA

FRANCE

SE

PURGE

PETIT

À

July 29 [?1790]. Fores. 77/ 8 X27I/ 2 in. Un-

signed. [I. Cruikshank] B M 7663. De Vinck 3706 (reproduction). A satire on the flight of the émigrés from France. Fourteen of them are given numbers corresponding to notes below. [1047] or, the fashionable bailiff. Written by Mr. Lawler and sung by Mr. S. Slader. 5th Septr. 1810, Laurie 8c Whittle. Cruickshank del. Douglas, 1819. Not in Reid or BM. Cohn (1955) : has a different design than that published by Harrild (See next item). SAM SNATCH;

[1048] or the fashionable bailiff. N.d. [? 1810] R. Harrild. A songhead with printed verses, beginning, "My name's Sam Snatch,— SAM

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SNATCH,

a grab d'ye see, Never was a bolder, With high and low I can make free, And tap 'em on the shoulder," 8cc. Unsigned. [Cruikshank del.] Douglas 1319. Reid 410. Cohn 1954. Not in BM. T h e two editions (this and Laurie and Whittle's; see preceding item) have different compositions as well as different publishers. An energetic officer is tapping a poor poet on the shoulder as he is walking in the fields. T w o men, fearing similar treatment, hurry away in the distance. [1049] •SANCHO ALIAS J O E BUTTS ENTERTAINMENT TAKING POSSESSION O F HIS GOVERNMENTl

ON

Aug 30, 1808. Tegg. 54. Cruiksank [sic] del. BM 11019. "G. Ck" and "G.C. and his Father, I C " are inserted in red ink on my copy. Joseph Bonaparte at table, being maltreated by the Spaniards, begs the Bishop for just a little food. A satire on his plundering of Madrid and his contemptuous treatment by the Spaniards. [1050] •SATANS [SIC] RETURN FROM THROUCH] EARTH. Discovered

[EGYPT,

SCORED

[1051] or, Poems written by a Gentleman A. B. Late of the University of Cambridge [J. Wallace]. (Also included: " A Fragment, the Sympathising Sportsman, or the Cottage of Misfortune"; also, "Shakesperian Sketches" by James Wallace, BA., etc.; same printer and date.) "For the author's Private use"; also miscellaneous short items. Colored engravings (4) and frontispiece (dated 1795) by IC. 1. Frontispiece: View of Harrow School. I. Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B. Reading sculp. 2. opp. p. 20: "With thee I scale." . . . I. Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B. Reading sculp. 3. opp. p. 39: "Yet dauntless still . . ." I. ELEGIES,

[1052]

( T H E ) , or honest Pat giving them an Irish welcome. J u n e 10, 1803. Fores. I Ck. B M 10009. Broadley 2, list no. 786. Skeletons in uniform, representing Bonaparte and French soldiers, wade ashore, as Pat, armed with a spade, threatens to shovel them back into the sea. A cartoon directed against an expected French landing in Ireland. •SCARECROWS ARRIVAL

[1053]

A STREET BRAWL. T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. T o illustrate a book, "Harry Dornton," published by Laurie & Whittle. Isaac Cruikshank. "An original water-color drawing." From the Woodin sale cat., item 245.4 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 9x7s/ 8 in. SCENE

in Council—with Belzebub [sic] & Belial—a sketch after Fuseli—!tl Nov. 30, 1799. Fores. [?I. Cruikshank] fecit. Napoleon's face is much like the face in " T h e Right Owner," item 998, done in 1804. BM 9431: [Cawse (a name obliterated also in my copy) fecit.] Broadley 1, 131. Bonaparte in uniform sits on a chair in the clouds before a triangle of swords, attended by two older men in white with wings (Sieyes and Ducos), the former bald, the latter with long hair and a bonnet-rouge. Fox et al. fly about them as small demons. Below, a rabble with liberty caps and bloody daggers. •SAVILLONS

Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B. Reading sculp. 4. opp. p. 123: "Alas, Maria . . ." I. Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B. Reading sculp. 5. opp. "Shakesp. Sketches": " T r u t h 8c Justice." I. Cruikshanks del. Author invt. B. Reading sculp. [Book] 12mo„ pp. 154. Printed by T . Rickaby for Hookham and Carpenter, New Bond Street. 1795. J . B. Townsend collection, and Chubbock, p. 2, no. 12. P.U.M.C.: Cruik I 1795. Marchmont 417. T w o copies marked "extremely rare."

(A)

DEPICTING

[1054]

T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott. T o illustrate a book, "Harry Dornton," published by Laurie 8c Whittle. Isaac Cruikshank. An "original water-color drawing." From the Woodin sale cat., item 245.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 87/8x7i/4 in. SCENE

(A)

IN AN OPERA BOX.

[1055] SCENE IN T H E CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN

(A)

or a crack in the Wig Club. March 17, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] B M 8315. T h e resignation of many members from the Whig Club on account of Fox's attitude is satirized by the huge pile of wigs. [1056]

SCENE IN T H E ENCHANTED ISLAND (A) .

Decer 6, 1798. M. Allen. IC. BM 9276. Sheridan, Fox, Grattan and Pitt (flying off as Ariel) are depicted as characters in " T h e Tempest." A satire on the weakness of the op136

lory, Fox, as a constable, moralizes to the angry crowd, who are hurling missiles at the pillory. H e castigates the two, for political reasons only, as a party matter.

position after such political setbacks as the Irish Rebellion, O'Connor's confession, the Battle of the Nile, etc. [1057] • S C E N E IN T H E SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

[1063]

(A) .

July 18, 1786. Fores. Unsigned. [IC] BM 6968 names n o artist. T h e Prince of Wales' face is the only one finished. Paston, pi. CLXVIII, reproduced. A reduction of the Prince of Wales' establishment for economy's sake. An auction room with the notorious Colonel Hanger (as Careless) auctioning off Lot 1, Gillray's Farmer George and his Wife, which p r i n t had just appeared. T h e Prince of Wales, dressed as Charles Surface, cries out, "Knock down the Farmer." Lots 2 and 3, portraits of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Fitzherbert, hang on the wall. [1058] SCENE IN T H E GAMESTER

(A) .

February [sic] 8, 1792. Fores. IC. BM 8062. T h e Duke of York exclaiming that his follies now will cease; the Duchess offering him jewels, as mere trifles, to help pay his debts. [1059] IN T O M T H U M B (A) ; Oct. 1. July 26, 1801. Laurie and Whittle. A droll. 433. Caries., 2, 135. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10680. A.S.W.R., >. 215. T h e dialogue is considerably altered rom Fielding's two versions. King Arthur and Queen Dollalolla sit on a throne, singing. Courtiers and Doodle and Noodle (see BM 11048) are grouped around them. [1060] SCENE

f

SCHOOL BOYS O F L I L L I P U T T U R N ' D OUT O F SCHOOL!

Holland. Apr. 1805. Unsigned. [Woodward del., I. Cruikshank f.] Ref. to be found in footnote to BM 10391. Pitt says to Melville (both weeping), "What will become of us!" Melville replies, "Why, you don't believe it, do you?" Reproduced in C. Matheson, "Life of Henry Dundas," 1933, p. 351. [1061] SCIENCE O F LOVE

(THE) .

Frontispiece by IC. Engr. title. [Book] 12mo. Pp. [5]-90. London. Chdbbock, p. 1, no. 4. [1062]

in the pil-

BREEZE

(A) , Scene New Bridge

[1064] No. 1, vide Cottagers of Glenburnia. Sepr 4, 1810. Tegg. Caries., 10, 26. [I.] Cruikshank del. BM 11650: "W. T . Spencer's copy (1931) inscribed 'Not any of this by me G.Ck.' " Cohn 1966. Douglas 1056. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2532. T w o travellers sit at a table waiting for food. T h e slovenly dress of the Scotch and the inn suggest squalor rather than poverty. SCOTCH

CLEANLINESS.

[1065] • S C O T C H COTTAGE O F GLENBURNIA

(THE) .

Sepr 6, 1810. Tegg. Tegg's Caracatures [sic], No. 33. [I.] Cruickshank del. BM 11651: "W. T . Spencer's copy (1931) is inscribed 'Not any of this by me, G. Ck.' " Cohn (1967): "Probably joint work of Isaac and George." Reid 112. Douglas 1055. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2760. T h i s is said to be an illustration of Elizabeth Hamiltons Work, Cottagers of Glenburnia, and the last dated IC print before 1810. T h r e e visitors, Mrs. Mason, Mr. Stewart and Mary Mason, survey the disordered interior. Mrs. McCarty is working; b u t her two gawky girls will not be fashed to help. [1066] or the determination of a loyal kingdom. Jany. 30th 1784. N o pub. or place. IC del. BM 6391. T h e first signed caricature of IC's in this collection. Fox and his supporters are confronted by a Scots officer with drawn sword. Behind him a crown, above which is inscribed, " T h i s I'll ever deffend [sic]." • S C O T C H ELOQUENCE

1792.

SCOTCH BABES IN T H E W O O D ! ! !

[?May] 1805. Holland. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10408. T r o t t e r and Melville (Dundas)

Edinburgh. Aquatint. 414x61,4 in. N o pub. Jany. 1784. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 6698. Notwithstanding the early date, the BM favors IC as the artist. H u g o Arnot (1749-1786), who is said to have retarded the building of the South Bridge for ten years, is satirized. He opposed local taxation.

SCOTCH

[1067] SCOTCH ELOQUENCE TO A CHILLY CONGREGATION.

July 26, 1796. Fores. Caries., 8, 122. GMW (Woodward). I Ck. BM 10886: [P1807. A reissue]. A m a n in a Scots bonnet and tartan, under clerical bands, is preaching from an outdoor

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pulpit to a shuddering congregation. His remarks (inscribed below the title) tell how "the De'el is a poor cheel who lives in the midst of the Highlands, in a place as cauld as charity, naething but snaw and ice, and ye could get nothing from him if ye tried." SCOTCH O E C O N O M Y .

[1068] No pub. [? 1803] Caries., 7,

115. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 10184. A Scot in a short tartan jacket, barelegged from the hips, carries his tartan breeches over his shoulder on a pole.

[1069] [Aug ?1809] [?Tegg] Caries., 9, 101. Stipple, colored. 7 i / 2 x 6 - l / 1 6 in. I Cruikshank. B M 11476. Cohn (1968): "Probably joint work of Isaac and George." Reproduced in Fuchs, Die Frau in der Karikatur (1906), p. 381. A comely young woman, barelegged, stands in a washtub, with another behind her stepping into a tub. An observant Highlander sits in the foreground taking snuff. •SCOTCH WASHING.

[1070] [? 1809] Lithograph. 1014x85^ in. Polyautography, 1, fo. 70. I. Cruikshank. B M 11477. A vulgarized version of B M 11476, reversed; the figures burlesqued, larger and closer together. T h e distant background is absent. Compare with previous item, which is smaller (same title, 1069) .

SCOTCH WASHING.

[1071] SCOTCH WASHING.

Augt 16, 1810. Tegg. Cruichank [sic] del. B M 11652. Cohn (1968) : "Probably the joint work of Isaac and George." From T h e Caric. Mag. Reid 111. Douglas 1054. T w o women standing in tubs, a girl in the background spreading the linen. Another in the stream splashes a man with an oar. [1072] [•SCOTTISH TOAST

(A) ]

Signed IC. Original watercolor. No further details available. 8x10 in. Well done, on rough paper. Bright colors. T h r e e Scots, one in a kilt, etc., the others with tams, are seated around a table with glasses raised. One points out the window to a crescent moon; one has an impossibly distorted neck that must be ascribed to carelessness. [1073] •SCRUB AND BONIFACE or three brave lads against one poor Roscius. Augt. 9 [1790] Steine Briton. [?Fores] [PIC] Newgate invent. Cripplegate direxit.

Hellgate fecit. B M 7743 names no other artist than these three pseudonyms. T h e style is like IC's; he was doing most of Fores' work at this time. Lord Barrymore (Scrub or Newgate) stands over and kicks the prostrate Roscius, a Mr. Fox, son of the manager of the Brighton Theatre, who calls, "Foul, foul." Behind him is the Prince of Wales, saying, "Damn it Newgate, fight like a man no kicking." Behind the Prince is the Duke of York. Behind Newgate are his two brothers, Augustus—who is also kicking Roscius—and Henry, called Cripplegate because of his malformed foot. T h e incident refers to a fight that happened on the Steine on July 27, where the Prince is said to have called out as given above to his boon companion. T h e nicknames and the violent behavior continued for some time. (See " T h e Pleasure of Being Kick'd out of Company," item 899.) [1074] •SCRUTINIZING

CUSTOMER

(A) .

Jany, 27. 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 55, p. 127. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sp. B M 9119. A grudging traveller, with hat and spurs, examines minutely the bill the landlord has presented to him. [1075] by James Thomson. [Book] I2mo. W. Heptinstall, 1797. Portrait and four etchings by " J . Cruickshanks." Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. (See descriptions in the next item under this title, item 1076.) SEASONS [THF],

[1076] . Four original drawings, each signed IC, with pen and ink four-line couplet on lower margin [ca. 1797]. [Book] 12mo. Four drawings bound in morocco by Sangorski. Description: Spring, a damsel scattering flowers, being crowned with roses by a companion, a third playing a tambourine. Summer, four maidens dancing in a glen; above, two cherubs dropping roses on their heads. Autumn, three maidens walking forward, a man and a woman reaping in middle ground, a mountain in the background. Winter, an old man, with cloak drawn tightly round him, is walking away from a wintry blast coming from three cherubs in a cloud; two boys are skating on a pond. These were said to have been used to extraillustrate a 1768 edition of James Thomson's " T h e Seasons" (London, A. Millar) . They may never have been published, though Cohn (1920 SEASONS

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(THE)

cat., i t e m 877) suggests that they may h a v e b e e n m a d e for H e p t i n s t a l l ' s 12mo. e d i t i o n (1797). T h e y are b e a u t i f u l l y executed, d o n e d u r i n g Isaac's best period, a n d distinctly superior to his caricature p r o d u c t i o n s in grace a n d accuracy. See i t e m 233 in A m . Art Gall, sale of R . W . Meirs collection. I t e m 234 in the same sale is this same H e p i n s t a l l : T h o m s o n (James) " T h e Seasons. W i t h the Life of the A u t h o r [with p o r t r a i t ] . F o u r c h a r m i n g etchings by Isaac C r u i k s h a n k , signed: 'I. C r u i k s h a n k s delt.' R . L a u r i e feet? O p p o s i t e each plate, the five original finished d r a w i n g s in black a n d white a n d wash. Each d r a w i n g is signed by the artist w i t h his initials, a n d each has the subject n a m e o n t h e back, a n d the last has the f o l l o w i n g inscription (pen & p i n k ) : ' T h e F o u r Seasons, Origi n a l d r a w i n g s by J (I) C r u i k s h a n k , ' a n d a u t o g r a p h of the engraver ' R . H . L a u r i e Esqr.' " [1077] (A) , or the Assassination of M a r a t by C h a r l o t t e C o r d é of C a e n in N o r m a n d y o n Sunday J u l y 16, 1793. etc. J u l y 26, 1793. Fores. U n s i g n e d . [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 8335. De Vinck 5298. M a r a t (not a p o r t r a i t ) falls b a c k w a r d w i t h b l o o d g u s h i n g f r o m a w o u n d over the h e a r t . Corday, u t t e r i n g a p a t r i o t i c s e n t i m e n t , holds a bloody dagger. N o b a t h t u b is shown. •SECOND J E A N D' ARC

[1078] or a peep—behind the screen. M. van T r o m p N e w i n g t o n , M a r c h , 1810. U n signed. [?I. C r u i k s h a n k del a n d / o r sc.]. B M 11533 ascribes it to [Williams]. T h e p l a t e deals with a d i s p u t e d p a p e r addressed t o George I I I by C h a t h a m on J a n u a r y 15 a b o u t the e x p e d i t i o n to the Scheldt. SECRET I N F L U E N C E

[1080] SEE SAW—or, a n e w m o d e of digestion for J o h n Bull. T i t l e w r i t t e n o n m o u n t in a u t o g r a p h of T e m p l e Scott. [IC] A n o r i g i n a l d r a w i n g , "signed w i t h initials," except for an u n k n o w n t w o of t h e thirteen in this g r o u p . F r o m t h e W o o d i n sale cat., i t e m 249.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 113^x133/4 in. A c a r t o o n r e l a t i n g to the Pitt a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . [10811 o r the Wolf tried a n d convicted o n his o w n evidence. A u g : 28, 1791 .Fores. U n signed. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 7899. Joseph Priestley h a n g s f r o m a gallows, w i t h a sheepskin over his clothes—the wolf in sheep's c l o t h i n g . Price, Lindsey a n d o t h e r Dissenters are also c a r i c a t u r e d , a p p a r e n t l y as a n effort t o c o u n t e r a c t t h e discredit a r o u s e d by t h e acts of the m o b at t h e B i r m i n g h a m riots. SELF MURDER,

[1082] • S E L L I N G T H E SKIN BEFORE T H E BEAR IS CAUGHT—

or c u t t i n g u p t h e b u l l b e f o r e he is killed. Dec. 24. 1803. Fores. U n s i g n e d . [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] B M 10133. N a p o l e o n , p o i n t i n g across t h e C h a n n e l at a sleeping b u l l , tells his officers t h a t he will t a k e t h e h e a r t a n d vitals. T a l l e y m a y t a k e t h e h e a d , as h e is used to t a k i n g t h e b u l l by the h o r n s ; a t h i r d will t a k e all he can get; a f o u r t h will take all t h e rest. B r i t a n n i a , ready t o r i n g the a l a r m bell of British valor, says t h a t w h e n they have settled t h e i r p l a n s she will rouse t h e b u l l a n d see w h o will be cut u p first. [1083]

[1079] •SECURITY AGAINST INVASION—or

l a t i n g c o u r a g e against N a p o l e o n ' s t h r e a t of invasion.

assistance f r o m

a new Ally. O r i g i n a l colored sketch, signed IC. (On b a c k of sketch, A C o u r t Bow, item 213.) A p p a r e n t l y never p u b l i s h e d . 10x14 in. W o o d i n sale, i t e m 184.17 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). Pitt says, " W e ' v e got t h e m [the winds] s n u g here. If they a t t e m p t to come n o w I'll let t h e m all lose [sic] at once u p o n t h e m a n d that will blow t h e m to [the] devil." H e holds two bags marked "West," "North." Behind him Dundas with " E a s t " a n d " S o u [ t h ] " says, " W h o s a f r a i d . " A figure in b r o w n coat (the King?) says, " W h a t . W h a t . W i n d s in those bags, eh. Egad I should like to see t h e i r faces. East West a very s h a r p o n e I s h o u l d say." O n e of the m a n y satires a r o u n d 1803, stimu-

( T H E ) . J u n e 14. 1803. Williamson. I Ck. B M 10014. Pitt, in c o u r t clothes, s p e a k i n g in s u p p o r t of t h e war, says t h a t , h a v i n g t a k e n t h e sense of the N a t i o n , he finds "it is w i t h us." Fox, in citizen's clothes, o n the o t h e r side of A b b o t , in the chair, agrees with Pitt in t h a t n o t only the sense b u t the senses of the N a t i o n have b e e n t a k e n , a n d there is only m a d n e s s left. •SENSE

OF THE

NATION

[1084] •SERENADE

(THE) !

Oct. 14, 1802. W i l l i a m s o n . IC (small, in a c o r n e r of the d e s i g n ) . N o t f o u n d in B M catalogue. A jolly fat fellow, a i d e d by a wooden-legged fiddler, serenades a s m i l i n g w o m a n at a win139

dow. On a perch outside the window, a crow cries, "Caw Caw Caw." [1085]

or the last Act but one in the Tempest, or the Jack Daws in borrowed feathers. Feb. 19, 1795. Fores. IC. BM 8618. Fox (Trinculo), Sheridan (Stephano) and Thurlow (Caliban) in stolen finery are making off with Government insignia. Prospero (the King), at the door of the Treasury, has set loose his dogs on them, while Pitt as Ariel cheers the dogs on. T h e dogs have human heads representing Lord Petty, Mansfield, Wyndham and Portland. •SHAKESPEARE'S

PROPHECY,

[1086]

By James Wallace. Frontispiece: A fancy design with mottoes: Truth and Justice/Weighing the Characters of Men/Discite Justitiam Cave Deus Videt/True to the end. [I.] Cruikshanks del. Author Invent. Reading sculp. [Book] 12mo. Pp. 1-88. Hookham and Carpenter. London. 1795. •SHAKESPEARIAN

SKETCHES.

[1087] SHAVE F O R A P E N N Y , HAIR DRES'T FOR T W O P E N C E , AND A GLASS O F GIN INTO T H E BARGAIN.

Sepr 20, 1793. T . Prattent. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8403. This satire on the penny barber shows three seated customers being attended to, with a bottle of gin on the shelf. [1088]

Untitled. I. Cruikshank. Original watercolor [1796]. T h e P.U.M.C. copy (Cruik IE 2728) has inscribed on the back in typical G.C. handwriting: "By the father of Geo. Cruikshank." T h e sketch, heavily and richly colored, is round, 8 in. in diam., and has "Cruikshank del't" and "Cruikshanks" written in ink around the lower half of the design, in an old but not Cruikshank handwriting. T h e scene shows a tired man, seated on a bank with a flageolet at his feet, being comforted by a comely young woman holding a shepherd's crook. Her dog lies at her feet; sheep are in the middle ground; the background being filled with hills and the farm on the slope of a foothill. T h e coloring is rich, but the figures are wooden and the man's features weak. T h e general effect is very good, if not altogether characteristic of Isaac's work. [SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS]

[1089] •SHEWING T H E F A M I L Y

PICTURES.

Aug. 27, 1796. Allan fc West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 12, p. 26. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sc. BM 8941. T h e jovial host shows a visiting couple his family portraits. [1090] • S H E W I N G T H E GARDEN.

Augt. 27, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 13, p. 27. Woodward del [I.] Cruickhank [sic] scu. BM 8942. T h e garden, consisting of a small yard, contains six potted plants. At the far end is a "temple," more resembling a church. [1091] • S H E R R Y ' S PLAN O F E C O N O M Y , or the Speaker travelling in Stile [sic]. Vide Mr. Sheridan's speech. April 3, 1803. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9975. T h e lettering perhaps done by George or Robert. T h e Speaker, holding up a large umbrella, is being driven down Parliament Street by Sheridan (?) driving an ass hitched to a rough cart. John Bull approves, wishing the same could be done through Pall Mall, so he would have less tax to pay. [1092] •SHEWMAN

(THE)

[ W R I T T E N IN I N K ] . O n

the

ex-

cessive taxation [in pencil]. Title repeated on mount by Temple Scott. 133/ 8 xl0s/ 8 in. 1797. From the Woodin sale (1942), p. 39, no. 184.12. (On verso: "John Bull's resolution," item 584.) IC. Original colored sketch. (See below for published sketch ref.) Pitt, turning the crank of a peep show, says, "Let me beg of you to pay attention to the entertaining prospect [etc.]. This prospect alone is worth all the money you've got." T h e yokel, with eye to the peephole, replies, "Mayhap it may measter Shewman but I cant zee it yet," etc. T h e banner reads, "Licensd [sic] by Act of Parliament the grand Exhibition of moving Mechanism or Deception of the Senses." This was published in almost identical form under the title "Billy's Raree Show—or John Bull Enlighten'd" (q.v.) . T h e engraving is unsigned, except for a minute " I . Cruikshank" following the title, with a line through it, and has been attributed to [PAnsell] (BM 9030), though the latter is clearly derived from this sketch. [1093] SHOEING ASSES. T h e present fashion of making boots everlasting. Apr. 20, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 466. [G. or I.] Cruikshank Del. BM 10946. T h e use of iron heel-pieces satirized. 140

[1094] • S H O O T FOLLY AS IT FLIES AND CATCH T H E LIVING MANNERS AS T H E Y RISE. T i t l e repeated on m o u n t

by T e m p l e Scott. IC [in pencil]. Original (pencil and faintly colored) social cartoon. T i t l e in an u n k n o w n h a n d ; probably added later. From W o o d i n Sale (1942), item 184.4, 9x1 li/ 2 in. T w o beaux watch a third beau meeting a fashionably dressed y o u n g lady. [1095] or, members going to vote on the Corn Bill. Tegg. March 14, 1815. I.Ck. fee. P.U.M.C. (3581, Cruik E 2756) gives this with a shorter title, as n o pub., and date 1815. But inspection at Princeton of the print itself revealed the title, date, publisher and artist's signature as given here. T h e date is either an engraver's error or to be explained as a reissue of a plate published in Isaac's lifetime. Various C o r n Bills had been considered in Parliament in the previous decade, culminating in that of 1815, accompanied by riots in London. T h e cartoon shows m e n with battledores hitting through the air many small figures (the shuttlecocks) toward an archway marked "St. Stephens." Some are being carried there on platters. [1096] SICK LION ( T H E ) , or the ungratefull jackasses. Vide Aesop's fables. April 10—1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11306. Reid 73. T h e lion, with the D u k e of York's profile, and three kicking asses (Curtis, Price and Shaw), who earlier had not voted against the Duke but now joined in the vote of thanks to Wardle. SHL'TTLE-COCKS & MACKEREL,

[1097] (A) , or I by myself I in the dumps!! Deer 7, 1798. M. Allen. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9277. Sir J o h n Sinclair abused by sailors for reducing the Navy. Fox and his supporters say they never went that far. SINGULAR SITUATION

[1098] Baronet, Baker, Rhetorician, Commodore and MP!!! etc. A J u b i l e e Song. N.d. [? 1809] F a i r b u r n . [?I.] Cruikshank. C o h n 1981: "A broadside with 48 lines of verse," (not g i v e n ) . Caricaturing Sir W i l l i a m Curtis. SIR BILLY BISCUIT,

[1099] SIR FRANCIS BURDETT TAKEN F R O M HIS HOUSE, NO.

8 0 PICCADILLY, BY WARRANT O F T H E SPEAKER O F T H E HOUSE O F C O M M O N S , ON APRIL 9 , 1 8 1 0 , AND DELIVERED I N T O T H E CUSTODY O F EARL M O I R A , CONSTABLE O F T H E TOWER. N.d. [1810] HaiTild.

(?I.) "Cruikshank del." Not f o u n d in BM, or seen by me. Cohn (1892), a caricature in two sections. Reid 106.Douglas (871) : " T w o subjects, each signed Cruikshank del." "Hie subjects show (1) his arrest; (2) his arrival at the Tower. He was M.P. for Westminster, 1807-1837, denounced flogging in the Army and corruption in Parliament, was imprisoned twice on political charges. [1099a] SIR FRANCIS BURDETT TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON THF. SPEAKER S WARRANT. N . d . N o p u b .

[?I] Cruikshank. Reid 104. T h e radical baronet is represented in the costume of a R o m a n Senator, holding Magna Charta in his hand. T h e Sergeant-at-Arms, standing near the door uncovered, orders the police officers to seize the prisoner. T h e baronet's affrighted brother stands at the door. BURDETT, SIR FRANCIS

See items 31 (Arrest), 222 (Crown & Anc h o r ) , 494 (Hone) , 7 2 6 (Memoirs), 731 (Middlesex Election). [1100] SIR ROBERT IRVING (called by his wife Scots' barren-knight, because he had n o c h i l d r e n ) . [PIC] ( T w o of thirteen in this g r o u p were not initialled.) An original drawing. Probably initialled by IC. From the W o o d i n sale cat., item 249.8 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). I4y4xl0y4 in. [1101] • S I X D I F F E R E N T METHODS O F CARRYING A STICK W I T H T H E I R EFFECTS. Aug. 1, 1796. Allen &

West. Ecc. Exc.: PI 2, Woodward del. [I.] Six pairs of figures, doing involuntary or

(folded), p. 8. Cruikshank sc. BM 8931. the stick-carrier in each purposeful damage.

[1102] • S I X O F T H E MOST APPROVED METHODS O F APPEARING RIDICULOUS ON T H E ICE!! A u g . 1 3 , 1 7 9 6 .

Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 9, p. 22. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8938. Elderly men in fancy poses, skating; one who has fallen has lost his wig, and all four limbs are pointing to heaven. [1103] • S K E T C H AT BURROWS-ASH, DERBYSHIRE (A) .

April 1, 1797. Allen 8c Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 88 (no page given). Woodward del. [I.] Criukshanks sculp. BM 9150.

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A crowded coach stopping for refreshments in front of the Noah's Ark Inn. [1104] (A) ] T i t l e given by T e m p l e Scott and added o n m o u n t by him. IC [signed in ink]. Original sketch, half in color. Unfinished. 101^x15 in. From W o o d i n sale cat. (1942), item 184.18. T h e figure to the left, in pencil, is the King e n t h r o n e d (overhead a playing-card diamond.) T h e central figure, in ink and wash (beneath a spade), is a citizen. T h e one to the right, in colors, outlined in ink, is a foppish type of soldier (beneath a c l u b ) . [ • S K E T C H FOR A POLITICAL CARTOON

[1105] LIFE, (A) . A Songhead. 1805. Laurie & Whittle. I. Cruikshank. C o h n sale cat. (no. 1023a, p. 151) : " 'From a Drawing by I. Cruikshank, Father of R.C. and G.C.' (in ink, by G . C . ) . " Not f o u n d in BM. SKETCH

IN

HUMBLE

[1106] SKETCH O F A FARMER.

An original pencil sketch in the Meirs collection, attributed to George Cruikshank. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2887, [Cruikshank 1805] [1106a] [SKETCHES, A PACKET O F

TWENTY.]

I.C. Original sketches done with pencil, pen, I n d i a ink or watercolor. Various sizes. In L. Binyon's Cat. of Drawings by British Artists in the Dept. of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. T w o sketches of Napoleon (partly by George); four landscapes (near Broadstairs and M a r g a t e ) ; a horse's head; twelve miscellaneous (mostly slight). [1107] T i t l e written on m o u n t in a u t o g r a p h of T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. Original sketch, "signed by the artist." From the W o o d i n sale cat., item 247.16 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 914x29 in. "Twenty-two figures characteristically portrayed." [SKETCHES FOR A SOCIAL CARTOON]

[1108] II T h e very stones look u p to see such very gorgeous harlotry, shameing [sic] an honest nation. May 28, 1796. Fores. IC del. [lower rt. in the rug]. BM 8809. Four compartments illustrate incidents in the Prince of Wales' intimacy with Lady Jersey: " T h e Sultan Retiring," "Fashionable Pastime," •SKETCHES

FROM

NATURE!

" T h e Discovery," "Confidence Betrayed." Gillray published two caricatures on this subject before this one of Isaac's appeared, a n d one three weeks after, two with similar titles to IC's. T h e coincidence could hardly have been accidental, a n d suggests a cooperative rivalry between the two. [1108a] SLANG DUELLIST ( T H E ) . A shot at a hawke or the wounded pigeon! J u n e 20, 1807. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10800. An actual duel between a Mr. Hawke and a Mr. Mellish, the duellists using slang terms, such as 'cannister" for head and " p i n i o n " for arm. [1109] SLEEPING PARTNER (A). [? 1804. PFores], Caries., 8, 88. Unsigned. Giles Grinagain in et f. [?IC]. O n e of series of a dozen or more in a series with this pseudonym. A.S.W.R., p. 214. BM 10335. An old man, in a stupor lies on a sofa, with his wife at his feet. She tells an old lady that he has declined till he is as lethargic as a dormouse. T h e old lady replies that she had the same problem with her husband, and n o t h i n g did any good. H e would have made on excellent "Sleeping Partner," b u t he was not a mate to her mind. [1110] [ • S L E E P Y CHARACTERS AT T H E FRONT WINDOW O F T H F GLOBE INN]

Octr. 22, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 29, p. 78. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sculp. BM 8958. In the sleepy town of T o r r i n g t o n , three men are seen asleep in the window of the Globe Inn. [1111] SLEEPY

DOSE

TO

THE

JACOBINES

(A) —OR

the

effects of Nelsons victory. Nov. 3, 1798. Aikin. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9262. T h e plight of the Foxites—Norfolk, Bedford, Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, Derby—is satirized. All sitting at a table in deep sleep with bonnetsrouges over their eyes, and appropriate papers on the table before each. [1112] SLIPPERY

WEATHER.

Mar. 20, 1795. Laurie & Whittle. 145 Caries., 2, 139. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 8592. A.S.W.R., p. 212. Reproduced, Fuchs, Die J u d e n in der Karikatur, p. 54.

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W a t e r gushes from a standpipe over a Jew, who has fallen down. T w o young women, a youth and another passerby all laugh at him. Eight lines of verse begin: "Early one m o r n i n g Sue and Cess/Went out to fetch some water,/ Moses forsooth must have a Kiss,/But Mark what followed after."

Deer. 12th 1795. Laurie & Whittle. A droll, 165. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8778. A man holds a cat over a flaming bowl to force it to pull out a raisin. Others a r o u n d the table watch the process.

[1113] SLY HODGE, or a new way to cheat the parson. [? 1803] (Imprint cropped in BM copy) . Caries., 2, 145. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 10218. Hodge persuades the parson "to sleep with Wife 8c I " and slips out when they are asleep, laughing at the parson's dismay when they awaken. [1114]

• " S O SAYINC HE LEANED HIS BREAST OVER HIS MUSKET AND TOUCHING T H E TRIGGER W I T H T H E T O E O F HIS BOOT INSTANTLY DISCHARG'D T H E

[1118]

PIECE." Vide page 220 Vol. I. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers, opp. p. 220, without title. Cruikshank del. Reading sculp. 12mo. J. Roach. Woburn St. Octr 31, 1795. A soldier in u n i f o r m shoots himself, to the dismay of two ladies seated near him.

SMART SHOES MADE TO F I T — W I T H O U T A LAST.

15th Jany 1794. Sayer. Caries., 2, 148. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8572. Ladies being fitted with shoes—other shoes a n d lasts are seen on a shelf. "Yes my lady they are neat about the quarters, they only want a little bobbing." [1115] SMILE TO A TEAR (A) . Engraved verses Sung by Mr. Braham. March 2, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 458. [I or (?) G] Cruikshanks Del. BM 10939. Cr. Momus (p. 30) : "Isaac 8c George Cruikshank." Reid 4491. Douglas 1804. R u b e n s 38. C o h n (1988) : "G. Cruikshank del." P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2425. A smiling m a n (Mr. Braham) bends toward a weeping young woman (Mrs. Bland) sitting at a piano. [1116] SMOKING A PARSON!! March 10 [1807]. Tegg. A droll. 159. Caric. Mag. (?) No. 14. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks s. BM 10905. Repartee comes from an old woman, smoking a pipe, to the short, fat parson who is criticizing her sitting smoking and d r i n k i n g in service time. "I am the Parson of the Parish." "More shame for you I say, to be walking about troubling your head with other peoples consarns—when you ought to b e in C h u r c h Preaching your Sarmint!!" Over the d o o r of the gin shop is a sign, "Rich Cordial Gin." A m i n i a t u r e cask is bestraddled by a Bacchus. Behind it is a large cask of " O l d T o m . " A pawnshop and a street with a church and houses are said to be used in the conclusion of the first volume of T h e Caricature Magazine, the cut a t t r i b u t e d to Williams. [1117] SNAP DRAGON.

[1119] SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER

(THE) .

I.C. An original watercolor drawing. Autographed by the artist on the verso of the drawing. From the W o o d i n sale cat., item 250.12 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 11S/8X95/8 in. [1120] SOLDIER'S F A R E W E L L

(THE) .

Aug. 13, 1803. Akermann [sic]. Woodward del. I.Ck. Reid 13. J. B. Townsend collection. A weeping wife and two children bid farewell inside their cottage to the husband, whose patriotic sentiments are expressed (in print) below the plate. Outside, an army is seen marching past to embark. [1121] ( T H E ) .—or—rare news for old England—"See the conquering hero comes." Novr. 14th 1791. H u m p h r e y . Unsigned. [Gillray] BM 7916. [PIC sc.] (Spencer and EBK.) A beautifully executed cut. See Grego's "Gillray," p. 122. T h e Duke of York, in u n i f o r m as usual, carrying a large bag marked £300,000, arm in arm with his pregnant bride, who carries a bag marked "Pin Money £50,000 p. A n n u m . " Across the water, a flag marked "Berlin" flies f r o m a castle. •SOLDIER'S

RETURN

[1122] • S O L I C I T O R GENERAL FOR T H E FRENCH (THE) .

REPUBLIC

Febv 18, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8305. Fox, in legal robes b u t with ragged undergarments, exhibits a scroll containing six items: "1, W e have done all that we should have done; 2, They have provoked and treated us with

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scorn; 3, we desired peace, fraternity and equality; 4, not to mention our underhand proceedings to soften the massacres; 5, abuse our adversaries; 6, if likely to terminate against us, demurr [sic] to the form or move an Arrest in Judgment." [1123] CHAMSON.

Song. Engraved verses: Written by T . Dibdin, Esqr. and Sung by Mr. Fawcett at Covent Garden in Mr. Colman's comedy " W h o wants a Guinea." Sept. 2, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. 403. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2656. Not found in BM. A young man, singing about mousetraps and razors, with French words interspersed, tells how he escapes from a prison, ending with a atriotic sentiment about the reception that ohn Bull will give the Emperor if he invades England. SOLOMON

GUNDY'S

P

[1126] (A) . Titled On the drawing: Calais. October 19, 1803." Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. Woodin sale cat., item 248.10 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 7S/8X5 in. SON O F T H E FRENCH REVOLUTION

[1127] . [An officer] N.d. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. Undated. Woodin sale cat., item 248.11 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 75/8X6 in. SON O F T H E FRENCH REVOLUTION (A)

[1128]

[1124] IN ALL HIS GLORYI!

Tegg 2 6 2 . (My copy is cropped too close to show date or publisher's name.) Cruikshank sp. A.S.W.R. (p. 211), "signed Cruikshanks." Not found in BM catalogue. T h e bearded Jew, well-dressed and wearing a tricorn, is warmly greeted by two attractive young women, one clasping his hand, the other with one hand on his cheek, the other on his shoulder. An older woman looks on approvingly. A sign shows that they are in Petticoat Lane. •SOLOMON

and the song give excellent ideas of the costumes and slang of fast-men early in the nineteenth century. A dog cart with three horses tandem waits behind him by a tollgate. T h i s tollgate is replaced in some variants by a signpost, farmhouse and fields.

[1125] • S O M E PUSH ALONG W I T H FOUR IN HAND W H I L E OTHERS DRIVE AT RANDOM. BANG-UP,—RANDOM,— OR T A N D E M . (This title appears at the top of

the plate in some copies.) Written by J. Pocock, Esq. Composed by Mr. C. Smith and sung by Mr. Matthews, at the Lyceum, in the Strand, with Printed Verses. April 4, 1810. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 514, 25. [I.] Cruikshank del. BM 11700. O n an impression belonging to W. T . Spencer (1931): "From a drawing by my father I. Cruikshank, G.Ck." Cr. Momus: "Geo. Cruikshank, Apr. 4, 1810." Reid 4496. Cohn 903. Douglas 1818. Both the Momus and Douglas use the "Bangu p " title. My copy was bought by Mr. Spencer with the remainder of the L8cW stock. T h e perforation marks on the margin suggested to him that it was their office copy. An amateur dressed as a coachman flourishes a long whip. "With spirits gay I mount the box, the tits u p to their traces,/My elbows squared, my wrist turned down, dash off to Epsom races." Reid emphasizes that the print

SONGSTER'S M U L T U M

IN

PARVO

(THE) , o r ,

new

pocket companion for lovers of harmony: embracing all the popular new songs, singing at the Theatre Royal, minor places of amusement, etc. Embellished with four beautiful engravings, etc. (This is the engraved title to Vol. 1.) Frontispiece to each vol. signed "Cruikshank del." (i.e., six engravings). [Book] 6 vols. (72 weekly nos.) 12mo. London. Fairburn. [Nov. 19, 1808-Mar. 31, 1810] Each vol. contains an engraved title, pp. 1-134. Cohn (763), making his detailed collation from the incomplete Meirs copy, lists all but six of the titles of the Parts as "after G.C.," the other six as "not by G.C." (i.e., ?by I.C.). "A set in the original parts is of the greatest rarity, if not quite unknown." Value of the six volumes £4 (1924). P.U.M.C.: Cruik 1808.2. [1129] Laurie 8c Whittle. 1801. I. Cruikshank. Cohn sale cat., no. 784g.

SONS O F FRIENDSHIP.

[1130] Chandos Street. 8th Jany 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 253. [I.] Cruikshank. BM 9835. T h e P.U.M.C. copy (p. 3581, IE 2761) is inscribed: "Drawn by my Father Isaac Cruikshank. G.C." T h e club members, sitting beside a table, are all asleep, while the chairman stands at its head, singing. SON'S [SIC] O F HARMONY—Scene

[1131] Captain Morris's Celebrated drinking song. June 4, 1806. Laurie 8c Whittle. 427. SOUND PHILOSOPHY.

144

Isaac 8c Geo. Cruikshank. Cr. Momus, p. 22. BM 10676 gives same title, date, but names no artist. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2768. Captain Morris, at a table drinking port with four companions, reiterates in each of eight verses, "And this I think's a reason fair to fill my glass again."

[1135]

SPECIMEN OF L I B E R A L I T Y TOWARDS S E L F .

Oct. 12, 1809. Tegg. I. Cruikshank. Douglas (1052) : " T h i s is by Isaac Cruikshank, so signed, relating to the Corporation dinner to celebrate the Jubilee." Reid 1, p. 338, no. 5086. T h e Assembly of the Corporation declares that its loyalty to the Jubilee can only be proved by dining at the Corporation's expense. Only two persons dissent—a man in military uniform and a female near him who calls the proposer "a heathen." T h e Jubilee was held October 25, 1809 on the fiftieth anniversary of George I l l ' s ascent to the throne.

[1132] •SPANISH J O K E

( A ) III

Sept. 5, 1808. Tegg. [I. and G.] Cruikshanks del. Not in BM catalogue. Joseph Bonaparte, being tossed in a blanket and his crown falling off, cries this is a bad time for Jo"king. Eight Spaniards hold the blanket, while Don Bull, resembling John Bull, cheers them on: "Thats your sort, my lads—up with him my Game Chickens Huzza her's more Ships—Colonies—8c Commerce—but not for Brother Nap!!!" A bag in the corner marked "Sancho Wallet" is stuffed with a cross, statues, etc. Napoleon, beyond a low wall, calls, "How dare you use my Squire in such an uncourteous manner. If I durst leap the wall I would—aye that I would." T h e Spaniards call back to him their derogatory remarks: "We care nothing about you or any such Villians [sic]." the

Grand Duke of Berg's retreat dicovered [sic]. July 14, 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 11000. Reid 46. Broadley 1, 271. Four armed Spaniards, in theatrical costume, are urged on by their leader, "Come on, my Brave Countrymen I begin to scent him." They attack a privy, in which the terrified Murat (caricatured) is seated. He exclaims, "Begarl I hear dem coming. On what fool was I to turn Vice Roi. I wish I was on board the galleys again." A rat, escaping through a hole, tells his namesaks (Mu-rat) that he is caught in a trap. [1134] . A ditty for young patriots. Sepr. 3, 1808. Tegg. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11021. Joseph Bonaparte, in Spanish dress, is horrorstruck when Spanish soldiers emerge from the pie. His crown falls off. Four French officers, including Dupont, with bandaged head and tattered breeches, draw back in alarm above the pie: "Sing a Song of Sixpence—a bag full of rye,/Four and twenty Patriots—bak'd in a Pye,/ When the pye was open'd the boys began to sing/Now was not that a pretty dish to set before a King." SPANISH P V E

(THE)

(A) .

Deer. 26, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8708. This is a satire on the unpopular Bill to Prevent Sedition. Pitt, assailed by an angry mob, gallops to the Treasury. He stoops to avoid a shower of brickbats, onions, cats, etc. A bulldog, his collar inscribed [John] "Bull," runs under the horse to bite him. T h e saddle cloth bears a crown, evidently to represent the White Horse of Hanover. [1137]

[1133] •SPANISH PATRIOTS ENTRING [ s i c ] MADRID—or

[1136] SPECIMEN O F LIGHT HORSEMANSHIP

SPECIMEN OF SCOTCH MODESTY

(A)

Feby 5, 1798. Fores. IC. BM 9169. Twelve figures representing Dundas (not caricatured) , each in one of his official capacities. [1138] . May 12, 1804, Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 349. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del?] BM 10354. A.S.W.R., p. 214. A mother, seated with two girls at the breakfast table, speaks to her boy, Antony, in verse: "Nay! Nay my darling boy, Mama forgive,/ On you my hopes are fix'd! for you I live;/ your Sister Hetty is a forward slut,/And does she dare to make my boy her butt;/Fne goings on, shame, shame, the naughty wench,/to grieve brave Tony, Arm'd to fight the French." SPOIL'D CHILD

(THE)

[11391 Three separately mounted original drawings in neutral wash, the title of each written on its mount by Temple Scott. Each drawing signed by Isaac Cruikshank. 1. Shooting (Loading for the shot). 9 ^ x 8 1 4 in. 2. Shooting (Waiting for the bird). 9 ^ x 7 i / 2 in. SPORTING.

145

3. Shooting (The bird shot). 10x8 in. From the Wood in sale cat., items 247.2—4 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). [1140]

( T H E ) consisting of the best and most approved Songs of the Chace, etc Frontispiece designed by [?I.] Cruikshanks and engraved by Barlow. [Book] Sm. 8vo. J . Roach. 1891. A modern edition, the original of which appeared probably 100 years earlier, when IC and Barlow produced a number of illustrations for books. Cohn sale cat., no. 868. Not in Cohn. SPORTSMAN'S EVENINC BRUSH

[1141]

•SPORTSMEN RESTING ( T H E ) . Stippled oval engraving. A companion piece to Sportsmen departing (see item 1142). Four lines of verse below the title: "Successful our Sport/ Thus we call on our friends/ T o share in the spoils/ Which our labour attends." N.d. (A.S.W.R.: March SO, 1801. S. W. Fores.) I. Cruikshank del. A. Suntach dir. A sportsman, standing, points to the day's bag—two or three birds and an unrecognizable quadruped; a second sportsman, sitting in a chair, faces a young lady seated on a sofa. A badly drawn cat grabs at one of the birds.

[1142]

( T H E ) . Small oval ( 5 y 8 x6y s in.). Mostly a fine stipple, a form of engraving seldom used in IC's time. Four lines of verse below the title: " T o the Country retir'd/ What delights can Compare/ T o the Sports of the field/ And esteem of the fair." N.d. (A.S.W.R.: March 30, 1801. S. W. Fores.) I. Cruikshank dir. [del.] A. Suntach dir. A sportsman, with a gun and two dogs, points to his friend at the door of his house kissing goodby to his wife. •SPORTSMENS DEPARTURE

[1143] —Grace Church street. Augt 19th 1808. Fores. Caries., 8, 196. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11127. A couple, arm in arm, turn their backs to each other, giving a silhouette of a doubleheaded eagle. T h e woman looks toward an officer. T h e man gazes up at a courtesan. SPREAD EAGLE

(THE)

[1144] SPY (A) !!! or the blessings of a Convention Bill. N 18, 1795. Fores. Caries., 8, 188. IC. B M 8688. A Justice of the Peace, approaching a rustic latrine, says, " I am sure I smell treason." An old woman supervises a little girl on the seat.

SR W A T T Y

ON

FULL

[1145]

GALLOP

TO T H E

ELECTION.

Four lines of verse etched beneath the title. No pub. [Apr. 1784, according to Miss Banks] Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] B M 6509. A satire on Sir Watkin Lewes, galloping on a goat and carrying leeks. He was the second of four to be elected to serve for the City of London (1781). T h e verse reads: "Sr. Watty he visits his friends in full Speed,/ With hopes in his Canvass that he may succeed,/ Should he be thrown out, 'twere a wonderful Pity/ For another Knight like him is not in the City." [1146] ST. GEORGE AND T H E DRAGON AND MADLLE RIPOST-

ING. Octr 12, 1789. Fores. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] B M 7557. Paston, PL 137 (reproduced). A political boxing match. T h e Prince of Wales and Hanger worsted by St. George and d'Eon. St. George says, "Now in de Mouth, den in de Eye, 8c then where you like." Behind, the Prince stands limply in the doorway. [1147] ST J A M E S ' S DAY.

August 5, 1793. T . Prattent. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank del.] BM 8402. Tubs full of oysters at an oyster stall illustrate the different uses they are put to in celebrating the day. St. James's emblem, a shell, appears in the print. [1148] ST. STEPHF.NS IN AN UPROAR—, or Horneys last effort!! [April 1810] J . Johnston. Unsigned. [I. and G. Cruikshank.] BM 11544. Reid 28. Cohn 1949. One impression is autographed by George: "Drawn and Etched by my Father Isaac Cruikshank—the Speaker in the Chair by me." Home Tooke, in clerical dress and supported by Burdett, fires at the Speaker, from a cannon, a blast containing Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, etc. [1149] •STAFFORDSHIRE

COURTSHIP!!

January 1st 1807. Tegg. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshank sp. Reid 21. Douglas 1043. Not found in BM catalogue. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2534. A lady, being courted, makes conversation with her bashful suitor. T h e lady: "Bless me, Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got." He says, "No, Miss, it beant a Dog—it be one of your own Sex." Weak in concept and execution. STAGE

(THE) , NEW

ROACH'S.

146

AND C O M P L E T E HISTORY

OF.

See Roach's new a n d complete history of the stage. [1150] •STAGE COACH PASSENGERS ASLEEP] T i t l e taken rom text. December 17, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 43, p. 103. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8970. T h e six passengers inside a n d the coachman a n d g u a r d outside are all asleep. [1151] [•STAGE

COACH

PASSENGERS

PASSING

WOOBL'RN

SANDS.] Deer 17, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 45, p. 109. Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8971. T h e coachman, g u a r d a n d two passengers wade, ankle deep, beside the empty coach. Others stand o n high g r o u n d to the right. [1152] STANDING TOAST IN T H E ARMY

(A) .

May 2, 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I (?and G.) Cruikshank.] BM 10983. R e i d 69. Seven officers stand with raised glasses to d r i n k a toast to "Gray H a i r s b u t n o W h i t e Locks." T h e reference is to General Whitelocke, who had been cashiered for incompetency at Buenos Aires. [1153] STANDING TOAST IN T H E ARMY

(A) .

Mar. 17, 1809. Fores. Unsigned. I. (and ?G.) C r u i k s h a n k . BM 11259. P.U.M.C. (Cruik E 2476) : "cold, etching B.C." Reid 69. A reissue of BM 10983, s u b s t i t u t i n g Mrs. Clarke for General Whitelocke. A book, lying on the floor, is treated very disrespectfully by a dog. [1154] STATE BED

(A) .

March 12, 1803. Williamson. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10181. Citizens are looking at a large canopied bed. O n the head of the bed is Vulcan h o l d i n g a net over Venus and with his h a m m e r raised to strike. O n the side is a valance showing objects connected with civic feasts. A g a p i n g "cit" exclaims, " D e a r me! there be W u l c a n & W e n ces"; a c o m p a n i o n adds, "Aye a n d a going to d o her with his sledge h a m m e r . " Others say, "2700 Pounds only very C h e a p i n d e e d " ; "alackaday when will luxury have an End?", a n d so on. [1155] R e p o r t of the Interesting T r i a l a n d Acquittal of that well k n o w n character J o h n Bull . . . for seizing various ships &c belonging to His Majesty the King of D e n m a r k , STATE

TRIAL.

in the m o n t h of September, 1807. By "A Barrister." F o l d i n g frontispiece by I.C., a "colored caricature of N a p o l e o n . " [Book] 12mo. L o n d o n . 1807. H a r t (1775 Broadway, N.Y.) sale cat. item. Oct., 1938: " U n k n o w n to Reid. Not in Douglas or C o h n . " Said to be the earliest effort of GC, b u t he is k n o w n to have assisted Isaac for two or three years before 1807. [1155a] Vide Page 137 Vol II. (opp. p. 174, in my set.) Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. 12mo. Published by J. Roach in Extracts of Prosaic Writers. Sepr, 1, 1796. Poor Maria sitting u n d e r a poplar, resting her chin on her h a n d a n d elbow o n her knee, is addressed by a clergyman. A small d o g is at her feet. • S T E R N E ' S MARIA.

[1156] ] ' S T R A N G E R S VIEWING

OXFORD]

Descr. 31 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI .47, p. 119. Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8973. A guide points out a chapel to f o u r visitors, while two u n d e r g r a d u a t e s pass by with k n o w i n g smiles. [1157] STRATAGEM

(THF.) : ALIAS T H E FRENCH BUGABO OR

J o h n Bull t u r n ' d scrub. J a n . 1, 1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I.C.] O n the authority of Broadley (1, 125) ; t h o u g h in his list (2, p. 338, no. 829) n o artist is n a m e d . BM 9337 says [PAnsell]. Pitt, h o l d i n g a monster with shark-like jaws, with "La G r a n d e N a t i o n " (i.e., N a p o l e o n ) on the collar, a n d p o i n t i n g at J o h n Bull's copious money bags, uses the threat of the French monster to extract more taxes f r o m J o h n . J o h n says, " O h , spare my life a n d take all I have." O n the wall is a "Schedule of F a r m e r J o h n ' s Income a n d E x p e n d i t u r e " : only £24 remains out of £200 after taxes. [1158] or new H i g h l a n d reel as danced at Seaton D 1 [Delaval]. L o n d o n P u d [sic] Dec 29 [P1790], Fores. Unsigned. [I. C r u i k s h a n k ] BM 7741. Lord S t r a t h m o r e displacing the Duke of York (?) in Lady T y r c o n n e l ' s bed. T h e lover is seen crawling u n d e r the bed, while the Duke, in uniform, exclaims that that long r a m has been t u p p i n g (serving) his little ewe. STRATH

147

SPF.Y

(A)

[1159] STROKE AT THE PLENIPO,

(A) or Mary's mistake.

April 25 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8012. Lady Mary Duncan kisses the Turkish Plenipotentiary, with whom she was thought to be infatuated. Pacchierotti, another of her infatuations, looks on ruefully. [1160]

. A set of 6 plates being caricatures of Kemble under the name of "Black Jack.' Nov. 1809. Tegg. 1.] Cruikshank del (invt or sc.), some proby with GC's help. See BM vol. 8, p. 875. PI. 1, A peep at Black Jack's origin, fee; PI. 2, Black Jack not liking to be a Popish priest—; PI. 3, Black Jack commenced as a stroller, See.; PI. 4, Black Jack being now rich swears in as Captain, 8cc.; PI. 5, After playing at soldiers about 6 wks—&c.; PI. 6, Set a beggar on horseback, See. These were also used indiscriminately as frontispieces for copies of Tegg's Rise, Progress and Termination of the O.P. war, q.v. Cohn 2009. Reid 91-96. Douglas 971-976. T h e set valued (1928) at £10. •STROLLER'S PROGRESS

(THE)

5

[1161]

(THE) A peep at Black Jack's origin previous to his going to Douai. Plate 1. Novr. 1809. Tegg. [1.1 Cruikshank del. Douglas 971. Reid 91. See item 1160. T h e parental home is shown—all the family actively employed. T h e father is dressing a wig, while instructing the future Mrs. Siddons, John and his mother converse, Stephen and his younger sister attend to the dinner. Charles is engaged on the ornaments of the wretched apartment. STROLLER'S

PROGRESS

[1162]

. Black Jack, not liking to be a Popish Priest, returns from Douay in a state of beggary and rags, and is releived [sic] by the poor Strollers at Brecknock. Pte 2. Nover. 1809. Tegg. [I.] Cruikshank invt. e Sp. BM 11426: [/. (?and G.) C.}. Douglas 972. Reid 92. John is holding out his hat to receive alms. People look with pity on his plight.

his shirt till he had settled the immense sum of 15 pence!!! Pte 3d. Novr 1809. Tegg. Caries., 7, 51. [I.] Cruikshank scp-. BM 11427: [I. (?and G.) C.J. Douglas 973. Reid 93. BM says it was done in the manner of Isaac, but see item 1160. Kemble was known to have begun his acting as a strolling player. [1164]

(THE) . Black Jack, being now rich, in full regimentals swears in as C a p tain of G.G.B. Volunteers in St. Giles' Church. Pte 4. Nov. 1809. Tegg. Unsigned. [1.1 Cruikshank. Douglas 974. Reid 94. Jonn, with his foot on the Test Act, takes the oath of allegiance. He holds the Bible while the Chaplain stands behind, with eye upraised. Part of the company stand drawn up in line.

STROLLER'S

PROGRESS

[1165]

(THE) . Black Jack, after playing at soldier about 6 weeks, gets drunk at Mr 's, Hammersmith, attacks a footman and coachman, and staggers home. Pl te 5th. Novr 9 1809. Tegg. [I.] Cruikshank delt e Sculp. BM 11428: [I. (?and G.) C.]. Douglas 975. Reid 95. A night scene. T h e sprawling footman holloas. The coachman is held by the throat with one hand and is about to be hit in the face by John. STROLLER'S

PROGRESS

[1166] Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil!II Plate 6. Novr. 1809. [1.1 Cruikshank scul. Douglas 976. Reid 96. John gallops down the road to ruin, through Tothill Fields, scattering all behind him. His horse, breathing Pride, Scorn 8cc., is inscribed with the means used to carry him.

STOLLER'S PROGRF.S [SIC].

[H67]

STROLLER'S PROGRESS ( T H E )

[1163] Black Jack commenced as a Stroller, and not being able to pay his rent in Staffordshire, annoyed his dying land'd in such a cruel manner with a large top which he borrowed, that the people were glaa to get rid of him without payment. NB it was about this time that his washerwoman refused to give him

STROL[LE]RS PRO[GRE]SS.

STROLLING PLAYER

(A). Comedy. Feb. 22, 1791.

Fores. Small. Unsigned. A companion piece to the next item, A strolling player. Tragedy. [I. Cruikshank?] Not in BM. Seen by me at Spencer's (1922). T h e existence of two plates, both small and published six days apart, bearing the same title, differing only in the two contrasted words, Comedy and Tragedy, strongly suggests that they were both done by the same artist, namely Isaac Cruikshank. [1168]

STROLLING

PLAYER

(A) . Tragedy. Beneath the

design, six lines of verse (etched). Feb. 16, 1791. Fores. Small (5-13/16xl7i/ 2 in.). Unsigned. 148

HL Cruikshank?] BM 8028. The actor with a tragic expression stands on a stage reciting verses from the play "Alexander the Great." [1169] STRONG S Y M P T O M S O F

LOYALTY.

[May 1800] Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9537: "A hasty sketch, probably the original" of BM 9538 (item 1170). Sheridan and Fox seize Hadfield, the wouldbe assassin of the King. Tiemey stands aloof, telling him he is as bad a shot as he, Tierney, is—an allusion to his duel with Pitt. [1170] STRONG S Y M P T O M S O F

LOYALTY!!

[May 18001 Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9538: "Probably an imitation of BM 9537, and a more effective rendering." Same title as BM 9537 (item 1169). Fox and Sheridan are dragging Hadfield across the spikes that separate stage and orchestra. A background consisting of a curtain and scenery has been added.

[1174] SUNFLOWER

[1172] S U F F O L K RATS PROTECTING T H E I R C H E E S E o r

the

County Fencibles called to arms. Jany 1st 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8597. Rats in uniform in various military activities. A recruiting caricature against the Fencibles; they, unlike the Militia, were not chosen by ballot. [1173] S U M M E R A M U S E M E N T S AT F A R M E R GEORGE'S NEAR

Aug. 9, 1791. Holland. Unsigned. [PIsaac Cruikshank del. and/or sc.] BM 7897: [PNewton], Reproduced (PI. 170, opp. p. 116) in Paston, who says it is by Isaac; also it looks like an IC. The King is seen churning milk in a dairy, while the Queen chides her market woman for selling the eggs for so little. Pitt is milking a cow and Thurlow is trying to crack a whip, seen in the background through an open door. A satire on the King and Queen's bucolic tastes and parsimonious habits.

[No

pub.,

[1175]

(Title taken from the text.) Oct. 8, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 23. p. 57. Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. BM 8952. The coach guard arrives at the supper table to say that the coach is about to leave. Consternation ensues for the seven present, who like the others mentioned in the text are far from ready. [ • S U P P E R ROOM AT N E W B U R Y ]

SUTHERLAND

(TRIAL

OF) ,

MURDER

OF

A

CABIN

BOY

See Murder of a Cabin Boy (item 784). [1176]

GUIDES.

April 8, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 92 (no page given). Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this plate. Two guides, with lit candles in hand and in the fronts of their hats, are conducting unseen visitors.

WINDSOR.

AND A B L U E B E L L E .

? ca. 1801] Unsigned. [IC] A.S.W.R. (p. 214): Oct. 12. 1802. BM 9832 names no artist. Two women are standing in an arcade of the Piazza, Covent Garden. The features of one (full face), with hair and hat framing them like a halo, suggest a sunflower. The other, with a projecting cylindrical bonnet, represents the bluebell.

[1171] •SUBTERRANEOUS

(A)

• • S W E A R I N G AT HIGHGATE.

Aug. 27, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc Exc.: PI. 14, p. 27 (Oval, 5x7 in.) Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8943. See also item 1176a, same title, but numbered 171, indicating that it is in another series than Eccentric Excursions. In the ancient custom of swearing persons from the country before launching into the wiles of the metropolis, a pair of horns is held over the novitiate while the landlord administers a ridiculous oath. His buxom wife produces a bowl of punch for a few spectators. The Horns Inn has the same horns on its signpost, and bunch of grapes over the entrance. [1176a] SWEARING

AT HIGHGATE.

171.

Woodward del. Cruikshank sculp. BM 8923. Same title, artists and general treatment as item 1176 indicate minor differences in detail and that it is not one of the "Eccentric Excursions." [1177] , or, the imaginary malady. (A bona fide fact.) 2d Deer. 1799. Laurie 8c Whittle. Unsigned. [IC sc] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9504: [Pafter Nixon]. Verses (printed in four columns below the plate) describe the trick that a dining club SWEATING

149

SICKNESS

(THE)

played on one of its members. They hid butter in the lining of his hat, and when it melted as they rode out to a country inn to dine, he was ersuaded that he had the sweating sickness. So e was put to bed and missed the banquetl

E

[1178] S Y M P T O M S O F A F F E C T I O N or a specimen of martial prowess. Mar. 27, 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7984. General Gunning, club in hand, drives his scantily clad wife and daughter from his house. He is assisted by two of his relations, Captain and Mrs. Bowen. [1179] S Y M P T O M S O F COURAGE.

March 26, 1808. Fores. G. Whiteliver del. [G. or I. Cruikshank] Reid 41. Douglas 1246. This satire relates to General Whitelock's cowardly conduct at Buenos Aires, for which he was cashiered. While troops are about to enter the city under fire, he is depicted as peeping over a hill in the distance. Cp. "The Ghost of Byng" and "Winging a Shy Cock," all published within three days and by a Cruikshank.

[1180] or the tables turned. Fores. August 16, 1790. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7667. In two compartments: one, an affair of honor between de Voglas, the Adjutant General of the French army, and Orléans; the other compartment, an imaginary sequel in which de Voglas, thinking that Orléans was responsible for the attack on Versailles, kicks him down to an inferior position. SYMPTOMS

OF

COURAGE

[1181] • S Y M P T O M S OF CRIM. CON!!

Jany 1st 1796. Fores. Vol 1, PI 14. Caries., 8, 39. Woodward Delin. [Cruikshank f.] BM 8925. Six groups of three persons in each g r o u p s husband, wife and a second man enticing her. In the first group, a lady makes an assignation for 7 P.M. as her elderly husband pulls her along; in the second, a barber begs for pity on his knees as a third threatens both with a strap; in the third, a young lawyer pleads to the wife, while the old husband sleeps in his armchair; in the fourth the young wife pleads illness, the attractive young doctor holding her hand before her skeptical husband; in the fifth, an elderly cleric is scandalized by his junior embracing a young woman; in the sixth, a horseman tries to sit on the lap of a very fat housewife as her husband objects that this is carrying a joke too far.

"Crim. con," is an abbreviation used by lawyers for "criminal connection."

[1182] •SYMPTOMS OF JOLTING.

February 25, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 70 [p. 164], Woodward del. [I.] Cruikshanks sculp. BM 9133. T h e interiors of coaches are the scenes of all four compartments of this plate, which in the text are said to represent a jolt perpendicular, horizontal, dexter and sinister. T h e first shows a couple bumping foreheads; another, bouncing up; a third, falling on their backs; a fourth, falling to the left. [1183] or a peep into the Boxes. A lengthy subtitle compares the effect of exhibiting the naked bodies of Roman women who had committed suicide with English ladies who strive to show most of their anatomy. May 20th, 1794. Fores. I.C. BM 8521. Mrs. Fitzherbert and Lady Buckinghamshire seated in an opera box, in extremely decolletage, each with the Prince of Wales' ostrich plume in her hair. [1184] • • S Y M P T O M S O F M A T R I M O N Y . Jan. 1, 1796. Fores. A large plate (12x18 in.) Vol. 1, p. 13 (series not ascertained). Woodward delin [IC sculp.] Not in BM catalogue. Seems typical of IC's work. Seven groups illustrating the ups and downs of married life: 1, A man, woman and child hearing a passage read from "Hudibras." 2, An irate husband complains of an underdone leg of mutton. 3, A man and wife, five children and a dog proceed to a meal. 4, A friend observes the honey-moon in eclipse. 5, A young newlywed proclaims her new freedom to an elderly husband. 6, A newlywed dresses her man up to change his "rustic manner." 7, T h e irate wife belabors her man. "He jests at scars who never felt a wound" (Shakespeare). •SYMPTOMS

OF

LEWDNESS,

[1185] SYMPTOMS O F

TIPPLING]

?1800] No pub. Caries., 8, 40. [Woodward del. I. Cruikshank f.] BM 9644 states that the title comes from the MS. Index to their volume of caricatures. In two rows (women in the upper, men in the lower), each taking a different drink, and each praising his own.

[1186] TABIES AND T O M CAT.

150

or old maids examining

an u n i q u e male tortiose [sic] shell subject. Feby 15th, 1808. Fores. Caries., 8, 145. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank, aided by GC] BM 11126. Reid 38. Douglas (1050): " T h e principal part probably by IC, the picture on the wall evidently by G.C." Cohn (2021) : "Only the picture on the wall is by G.C. the rest by his father, Isaac." Ugly old maids are admiring the cat, which stands on a cushion below the auctioneer, Mr. Bullock. Elderly dames, assembled to bid, endearingly fondle "the dear male creature." A male tortoise-shell cat is still regarded as a peculiarly valuable animal in parts of England. [1187] TABLES ARE TURNED

(THE) .

July 1809. Johnston. Unsigned. ri. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11342. Mrs. Clark rides a donkey which has the head of Wardle. It kicks into the air a shower of household goods. A satire on the action taken against Wardle by Francis Wright, an upholsterer, for the costs of furnishing Mrs. Clarke's house.

[1188] • • T A F F Y AND HUR W I F E , SHENTLEMAN O F WALES.

N.B. T h e Welch women all ride crosslegged and barebacked. Sepr. 28; 1786. Fores. Unsigned. [IC?] BM 6985 names no artist. T h e Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert are riding astride a large goat. Her flying skirt exposes a garter inscribed "Honi Soit." [1189] the donkeys, or the humours of fashion. A droll. 407. Octr 21, 1805. Laurie & Whittle. Engraved verses: Written by Mr Upton, and sung by Mr. Johannot, etc. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10510. Donkey-riding was a fashionable pastime at Brighton at that time. [1190]

TAKING AN AIRING, AT BRIGHTON,

TAKING AN EMETIC.

March 12, 1800. Fores. I. Ck. BM 9805. An ugly half-dressed old maid vomits into a bucket, while a cat prepares to do likewise. [1191] TAKING PHYSIC.

March 20, 1801. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9804. An invalid looks with disgust at his cup of medicine. A table is loaded with medicines and a case of Perkins' Tractors. [1192] TAKING T H E WATF-RS AT A SPA.

I.C. An original signed drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 185.2 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 13x16 in. A social satire. [1193] • T A L E O F TERROR (A) !!1

10 Janry, 1807. Tegg, 115. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. Dawson. Spencer (1922). Not found in BM. A.S.W.R., p. 13. Several rustics seated in a group listen to a long tale about the devil. T h e tale issuing from the narrator's mouth covers most of the design. T o the right, a chair collapses and in the tangle that results a pair of female legs have been left by the artist without a body. Mr. Thompson has fallen down and is attacked by a dog, with "G. W O O L " on his collar. [1194] or more ghosts forming a complete phantasmagoria. Frontispiece by IC. [Book] 12mo. London. A. Lemoine. 1802. Chubbock, p. 3, no. 21. Not in Cohn. TALES

OF

TERROR,

[1195] moral and interesting. Containing the bunch of cherries or joys of participation, etc. Translated by Mr. E. H. Symes.

TALES T O MY DAUGHTER:

frontispiece, folding, and 2 uncolored plates attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in Harvard Colege catalogue]. [Book] 16mo. Dean and Munday. [5]—58 pp. N.d. (1810). Chubbock (p. 9, 56) assigns the three plates to IC. T h e copy listed in Mr. Sessler's files is in gray wrappers with a woodcut on front cover. TANDEM ( T H E ) , or Billy in his sulky. A new Irish jaunting car. See New Irish jaunting car (A), item 810. [1196] an ostrich is nothing to him; Johnny Bull will swallow anything!! Decemr 13, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 8703: [PWest]. T h e figure of Pitt is typical of IC's style. Fores' own copy (S.W.F., owner's stamp). An elongated Pitt, in court clothes, rams a document ("Convention") with the butt of his gun into the mouth of John Bull, who is lying on the ground. T h e Convention Bills ("Against Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices") had aroused much discussion and opposition. • T A L K O F AN OSTRICH!

[1197] T A M O'SHANTER, AND SOUTER J O H N N Y .

ten on mount by Temple Scott. 151

T i t l e writ-

Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 244.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 65/ 8 xll in. The following excerpt from Burns's famous poem appears in autograph below the drawing: "Ae market-night/ Tam had got planted unco right,/ Fast by an ingle [fire], bleezing finely,/ W i ' reaming [foaming] swats [tankards], that drank divinely;/ And at his elbow, Souter cobbler] Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy troubled] crony:—/ T a m lo'ed him like a vera wither:—/ They had been fou for weeks thegither."

[?IC] A.S.W.R., p. 216 (no comment). BM 10951 names no artist. A man leans from a window in the stern of The Bleeding Heart, weeping profusely. A boatman rows a passenger who is holding up a package marked for "Sally Sly." Both are weeping. [1202]

date or publisher given. Isaac Cruikshank. "A colored print." From Woodin sale cat., p. 90 (second session), no. 323, in first of 3 folio vols., sold at Parke-Bernet Gall., under heading of "Fashion in Caricature," paragraph 2, third item. TELLING FORTUNE IN COFFEE GROUNDS. N O

[1198] TAP ROOM POLITICIANS SETTLING THE AFFAIRS OF THE NATION. 13th July 1795. Laurie & Whittle.

[1203] TENDER SALUTE

154. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 8773. Artisans, smoking and drinking, listen to a companion who reads aloud a newspaper. A tailor holds a pair of shears, a barber has a comb stuck in his hair. Pipes, tobacco and a tankard are on the table; pewter tankards are on wall shelves. A clock points to 8.20. (A) .

[1200]

Being a companion to that excellent song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." A Song heading with 4 printed columns of verse [? 1804] [PLaurie 8c Whittle] Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10361. Reid 408. Cohn 2025. An old maid's tea table is upset in a fight between her cats and a visiting hunchback's dog. The verses begin: "One eve, as an old maiden lady,/ At table, at teatime she sat,/ On the right was her pussy call'd Sadi,/ On her left was her Tabby Tom Cat." TOMS TRAGIC TALE:

[1201]

Heading to engraved verses: Sung, with unbounded applause, by Mr. Incledon, in his popular Summer Entertainment, "The Wandering Melodist." The verses begin: "Tell her I'll love her till "the clouds drop rain; Or while there's water in the pathless main." Octr. 20, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 472. Unsigned. TELL

HER

I LOVE HER.

[1204] or the Governor—instrucing his little family. June 12, 1790. Fores. Tabby fecit. White [sic] Invt. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7651. Lord Heathfield, Governor of Gibraltar, instructs his garrison with an open book on Military Tactics in his lap. The garrison consists of three cats (poorly drawn), of which one is heating cannon balls from a pile marked "Spanish pills," a second is drilling with a musket, the third firing a cannon with the aid of Nature. This plate is a satire on the Governor's unfitness. He died at Aix a month later. •TERROR TO THE DONS

June 21, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [L Cruikshank] BM 8193. The costume of the young woman includes several articles made of a tartan. Her veil, an ostrich feather and her hair-do further illustrate the costumes of the day. TEA-TABLE TABBY

XC PLEASANT REPLY.

July 25, 1804. Laurie fc Whittle, 360. Unsigned. [?/. Cruikshank del.] BM 10355. A Scotch lawyer, having happened some years before to meet Lady Wallace (?), compliments her on looking so well. "Lord," says she, "I am as fat as a whale."

[1199] TARTAN BELLE OF 1 7 9 2

(A)

[1205] , or the bully brought down. Octr. 17 1794. Fores. Cruikshank 1794. BM 8522. Two men have exchanged shots in a duel on a race course, one being accused of cowardice. The last two words of the title are apparently a pun on the duellist's name, Broughton. TETBURY

DUEL

(THE)

[1206] •TEWKSBURY PORTRAITS.

Feb. 18, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 63, [p. 145]. Woodward del. Cruikshank del. BM 9127. Two well-dressed men, "as sharp as Tewksbury mustard," are conversing. [1207] THAT WAS A FUNNY JOKE, NOW WASN'T IT? T o r -

ond. [?1805] In two states; the second [?1810] 152

has "Mrs. Caudle in a good humour." at the top of the plate. Unsigned. 6 ^ x 5 - 1 / 1 6 in. [?I. Cruikshank sc.] BM 11656: [?G. Cruikshank], Reid 9. Douglas (1037): "1805." If this is the correct date, it would be too early for GC aet. 13. Cp. " T h a t was a monstrous droll story now wasn't it." BM 11655: [PWilliams]. T h e head of a buxom dame, mouth wide open, laughing heartily. There is said, by Reid, to be a second state, "Mrs. Caudle in Good Humour." [1208] •THEATRICAL DOCTORS RECOVERING CLARA'S NOTES.

Jan. 16, 1802. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC sculp.] (EBK.) BM 9915: Williams. T h e main figures, especially the doctor, could well have been engraved by IC. Sitting in an arm chair an obese lady—Mrs. Billington—is being given boluses of gold coins by W. T . Lewis to restore her voice. Sheridan urges him to spare no cost, as he has plenty more Pizarro coinage in the bag he is holding. Tearful cherubs bemoan her loss. [1209] THIS DAY, A CHARITY SERMON W I L L BE PREACH'D AT ST. STEPHENS C H A P E L FOR T H E POOR CHARITY CHILDREN O F ST. J A M E S ' S PARISH. June 19th

[1795]. No pub. FT [?I. Cruikshank. I find no clue for an artist with the initials F T . ] BM 8661: "Pen and watercolor design for a print." This statement leaves it uncertain whether an original or an engraving is meant; I favor the former. The Duke of York and the Prince of Wales, by a church door, are each holding a collecting plate and saying, "Pray remember the poor Charity Children of St. James's parish." Behind, a crowd of men leave the church, Pitt holding a plate for them. Other members of the royal family assist. T h e King and Queen ride away to Windsor taking no part in the collecting. This satirizes the King's message to Parliament urging an establishment for the Prince of Walls and another message asking for the payment of his son's debts. [1210] THIS IS T H E FRIEND O F ROME.

June 21, 1790. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7654: He "resembles a bust portrait (stipple) of Tooke signed Cruikshanks delt." Home Tooke is striving to pull Hood and Fox up to a gibbet. This cartoon has to do with the Westminster election. [1211] THIS IS T H E HOUSE T H A T J A C K BUILT.

Jany ?, 1792. Fores. Unsigned.

[I. Cruikshank] BM 8163. A paraphrase on the well-known nursery rhyme, taken from a lampoon on the Dunning scandal. A series of eight portraits: (1) "This is the Note that Nobody wrote!"; (2) "This is the Groom that carried the Note that Nobody wrote"; etc. [1212] •THOUGHTS ON MATRIMONY.

Jany 26 1795. Fores. IC. BM 8611. T h e Prince of Wales gazes at Lady Jersey's portrait, while holding a crude miniature of the Duchess of Brunswick (whom he married in 1795) given him by a grotesque German envoy holding forth a pair of woman's shoes and stockings in one hand, his own gloves in the other. [1213] THOUGHTS ON T H E

INVASION!

August 27. 1801. Ackermann. Caries., 10, 103. [?I.] Cruikshank del. BM 9725. Broadley 2, p. 349, no. 985 (Latta coll.) T h e early date makes this almost certainly the work of Isaac. Two women converse about the possibility of personal damage by the invaders. T h e reference is to the French threat of June 21, and is part of the propaganda aimed at influencing the peace negotiations. [ T H R E E FICURES—THE KING, A CITIZEN, A SOLDIER]

See [Sketch for a political Cartoon] 1104). [1214]

(item

• T H R E E GODDESSES IN PURSUIT O F PARIS. Sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Fawcett in the New Comic Opera of "Two Faces under a Hood" Laurie & Whittle, Jany 1, 1806. Song with four weak printed verses below plate mark. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank del.] A.S.W.R., p. 216. BM 10959. Paris, in tights, sitting on a tree trunk with a dog at his feet ( " P A R I S " on his collar), is deciding between Pallas, Venus and Juno—all in non-Grecian costume. In the right background a fat officer and lady promenade; behind them are seen some church steeples. (Is the background by GC?) Said to be a satire on love affairs with married women and on thinly clad ladies. T h e verses read: " T o know which was the smartest girl, three goddesses, one day,/ Set off to Paris, thinking that would be the nearest way:/ They all of them were beautiful, as well we may suppose, and very much in fashion, for they'd very little clothes.// This Paris, I should tell you, was no city by the bye,/ No more he

153

knew of fam'd St. Cloud, than of the Isle of Sky;/ A shepherd with his hook, and crook, and book, he lay reclin'd,; For every day he thus improved his mutton and his mind.// From helmet bonnet, Pallas cast upon him her blue eyes,/ And asked which is the prettiest? Say me, sir, and be wise;/ Says Juno, I can wealth bestow; says Venus, I declare,/ Give me that golden apple, Nell, and you shall be a pair.// This Nell, tis said, tho' she was wed, was all his heart's desire,/ So Venus won, and t'other ladies set the town on fire:/ Ye men then spare your neighbor's wives, nor ladies be so bold,/ As walk about so thinly clad, for fear of catching cold." [1214a] Title written on the mat

THREE MEN TALKING.

by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original pen and ink drawing. Woodin sale cat., item 248.18 (Parke-Bemet Gall., 1942). 57/8X4 in. [1215] THREE ORDERS OF ST. PETERSBURGH.

Mar. 18. 1800. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank;] Attributed to I.C. by Harvard College Library. BM 9526. Reproduced by Fuchs, p. 252. The handsome Czar Paul I hurries forward, with his ribbon and his coat tails fluttering. On his crown is inscribed "Disorder"; in one hand, a paper which is marked "Order"; in the other, a paper marked "Counter Order." A satire on the Czar's changing policies toward the Coalition. [1216] •THUNDER STORM (THE) . Vide page 143, vol. III. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers. Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. 12mo. [London] J . Roach. Augt. 1. 1796. A lady spreads a cover over a sleeping man, while lightning flashes in the background. THURLOW, LORD CHANCELLOR.

See Lord Chancellor Thurlow, item 672. [1217] •TILTED WAGON (THE) . The 18 printed verses are headed " T h e following pleasant couplets were written in a Tilted Waggon," etc. March 12, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. 5s4X9i/8 in. (Broadside: 13i4x9i/ 2 in.) 385. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10499. My copy inscribed: "From a drawing by my Father Ic Cruikshank." The wagoner walks beside the covered wagon, a man in Hessian boots behind him. Inside, a man is seen courting a young woman.

[1218] • T I M E THE BEST DOCTOR.

Jany 28. 1804. Williamson. I. Ck. BM 10182. Three M.D.'s debate about a young woman's enlarged abdomen, as to whether it is water or wind or something between wind and water. T h e fourth, a Scot in plaid knee breeches, recognizes it as a "surfeit from the too free use of Turn-ups which nothing but Time will remove." [1219] Printed verses Written by C. Dibdin, Jun. July 24, 1808. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 492. Unsigned. [I.] Cruikshank Del. BM 11202. Cr. Momus, p. 50: Isaac & Geo. Ck. July 24, 1808. The verses are not available. A sailor, on a man of war which is ready for action, is addressed by the ghost draped in a sheet. TOM TACK'S GHOST.

[1220]

Or how tO cheat the bailifs (sic]. [? 1790] No pub. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 7747. A debtor being rolled in a barrel (political) by two men, who may be portraits (Tetherington and Parker).

TOO DEEP FOR THE KNOWING ONES

[1221]

or summer cloathing [sic] for 1556 and 1796. Feby. 8, 1796. Fores. G. M. Woodward Del. IC (cut on rug, very small). BM 8904. Fuchs, Die Frau in der Karikatur, (1906, p. 17, reproduced) . A woman (1.), clothed in the stiff costume and large ruff of the Elizabethan period, looks amazed at the thin and revealing dress of the young woman (r.). T h e corresponding male costumes occupy the upper corners of the plate. •TOO MUCH AND TOO LITTLE

[1222] TOUCH AT THE TIMES

(A) .

March 25th, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. Song. Unsigned. [I. and G. Cruikshank] Cohn 2039. Reid (4489) says that in retaliation GC (aged 13) introduced the likeness of Laurie 8c Whittle's shopman, who had been rude to him. Mr. John Ellis was said to have had the original drawing. An old woman, buying a candle, was told the price was raised from 3 farthings to a penny because of the French and the War. She replies, "O curse 'em. Do they fight by candle light?" [1223] in answer to Captain Morris's celebrated song of Country Life, by Mr. Hewer-

TOWN LIFE,

154

dine. Apr. 15, 1807. Laurie & Whittle. Song (10 verses printed below the plate). [1.1 Cruikshank del. Douglas 1806. Not in Reid or B M . P.U.M.C. (Cruik I E 2662) : "I. Cruikshank." A country squire visiting town is poked in the face by an umbrella and hit on the head by a flowerpot. A woman is drinking heavily; a man carrying a case of wine stumbles up the cellar steps—The house is called Hell (a "subscription house"). [1224] or the Footman's Widow.

Colored folding frontispiece by Isaac Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. J . Fairburn [1806], Cohn sale cat., no. 883: "Very scarce." [1229] TRIAL

OF

EDW.

DESPARD AND OTHERS

[1225] . Or the head of the Nation in a queer situation. J u n e 9, 1798. Fores. Unsigned. "Designed by Mary Cruikshank," on the railing. [I. Cruikshank sc.] B M 9226. Pitt, looking like a skeleton but with greatly swollen legs, sits in a chair marked "W.P. Parade, Bath," while Dundas tries to get him to take a sip from a bottle marked "Water of Oblivion." T w o yokels make disparaging remarks about Pitt and his taxes. Pitt actually was ill at this time. •TREASURY

SPECTRE

(THE)

[1226] , or satisfaction for all parties. May S 1791. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] B M 7851. Catherine I I and the Sultan embracing in a seraglio. T h e r e are several other couples, exchanging coarse remarks. T w o women attack Pitt for his treatment of British women. T R E A T Y O F PEACE

(THE)

[1227]

( T H E ) —Every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down. April 1089 [sic], Johnstone. Unsigned. [I (?and G) Cruikshank] B M 11323. Burdett, Whitbread and other Liberals stand by with axes to cut down a decayed tree, upheld by a log marked "Morning Post." Perceval and two others beneath the tree are waiting for its fruit to drop. T h e misdemeanors of the Duke of York provoked a series of violent attacks against corruption. TREE

OF

CORRUPTION

[1228] TRIAL EAMER.

BETWEEN

JAMES

PURNELL

AND SIR

JOHN

HIGH

Etched frontispiece by I. Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. Macpherson. 1803. Cohn sale cat., no. 840. G.Ck. is said to have written on the frontispiece of one copy that it was by Isaac.

T R E A C H E R Y DISCOVERED

[PIC] [Chapbook] No data on size, pub. date, place, pages, illus. See [Chapbooks]. Five, bound in one, etc. Cohn sale cat., p. 113, item 765.

FOR

TREASON.

[1230] T R I A L O F J O H N H O L L O W AY AND OWEN FOR

THE

WILFUL

HOUNSLOW H E A T H

MURDER

OF

MR.

HAGGERTY STEELE

ON

(Nov. 6, 1802) .

Plain (folding) frontispiece by I Ck. [Book] 8vo. London. J o h n Fairburn. 1807. Pp. 1-32. 3rd ed. Another trial is included in the pamphlet. Chubbock p. 5, no. 34. Douglas (317) says that he cannot see any of GC's work in the plate except possibly the trees in the background. His copy (6002) was later in the library of J . B. Townsend. T h e murder occurred on November 6, 1802; the trial took place on February 20, 1807. [1231] TRIAL O F T H E PUBLISHERS O F T H E MORNING HERALD F O R A L I B E L ON T H E E A R L O F L E I C E S T E R . . .

for an abominable crime, likewise, the T r i a l of Captain Gore, etc. Colored frontispiece by IC. [Book] Cr. 8vo. J . Duncombe. N.d. [1809]. Cohn sale cat., no. 884: " R a r e . " [1232] • T R I F L I N G MISTAKE

(A) .

N.d. Tegg. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. Not found in B M list. T h e master, sitting with his two daughters drinking wine, has sent John, the servant, for the two parasols they had asked for. J o h n returns with two pair of soles that he had got from the fishmonger. [1233]

( T H E ) or a consultation on the additional wine duty!!! Apr. 26, 1796. Fores. I Ck. B M 8799. Pitt, with ass's ears, and grapes in his hair, sits astride a cask that has an open spigot from which wine is running on to the floor. A disheveled Scotswoman (Duchess of Gordon?) drinks from a cask marked "Gordon's Entire," which also has wine flowing to the floor. Dundas (?) spills some from his goblet. They all • T R I U M P H O F BACCHUS

155

drink to Justice Midas, a corrupt justice in O'Hara's burletta "Midas." [1234] 100,000 CROWNS (THE) OT the lucky hit for E - O T - O P - O Ho. and all the rest of the O's. No. 20, 1791. Fores. ly A x22i/ 4 in. IC. BM 7914. T h e design shows the Duke and Duchess of York's entry into London on the back of a large bull marked "John Bull." T h e Duchess sits on a bag marked "100,000 Crowns." T h e Jews and gamblers rejoice. E - O in the title stands for the Even and Odd of roulette, the rest may be gibberish. TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF

[1235]

TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE UNION INTO LONDON (THE).

Jan. 1, 1800. No publisher.

Wright calls this "a rare caricature which exhibits a little of the style of Isaac Cruikshank," a copy being owned by Mr. Fairholt. In Wright's Hist, of Caric. in Art (p. 491, fig. no. 236) an illustration (called "A Case of Abduction," taken from the larger plate) shows Pitt, with a paper ("Irish Freedom") in his pocket, carrying off by force a young woman ("Ireland") in a rustic cart. On the horse, sitting sideways and fiddling, is Lord Clare, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. T h e rest of the plate is said to show Grattan appealing to the young woman, and, among a large rabble of Irishmen, St. Patrick riding a bull and playing a harp. One of them expostulates in the following words: "Ah, long life to your holy reverence's memory. Why will you lave your own nate little kingdom, and go to another where they will tink no more of you than you would of an old brogue! . . . Och honel och hone!" Another Irishman tugs at the bull by the tail, with the lament: "Ah masther, honey, why will you be after leaving us? What will become of poor Shelagh and all of us when you are gone?" In advance of the group is a rabble, while close behind comes Grattan, carried in a sedan chair, appealing to the lady: "Ierne, Ierne, my sweet maid, listen not to him, he's a false, flattering gay deceiver." [1236] •TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER!!

Fores. Mar. 1, 1796. Caries., 8, 51. Vol. 2. PI. 3. Woodward delint. IC. BM 8927. Eight pairs show results of losing one's temper—master and servant, husband and wife, man beating his dog, mistress and maidservant,

virago beats prostrate man, man destroys cobbler's boot, two men arguing, father beats prostrate son while negro servant protests. [1237]

or Liberty Vanquished, a Mock-Heroic Tragedy in Five Acts, by the Author of " T h e Acts of the Apostles," "Precedents and Privileges." 8cc. Colored, folding frontisp., signed [I.] Cruikshank. [Book] 8vo. I - V I and 40 pp. London. W. Barrett (Dean & Munday). 1810. Reid (4607) attributes the frontispiece to George, but on it in the Widener copy GC has written: "All by my father I. Cruikshank." A.S.W.R., p. 209. Reid gives the title as "Triumph," lists it as 12mo and a chapbook. TRIUMPHS OF THE SONS OF BELIAL,

[1238]

TRUE BLUE! THE J O L L Y

TARS OF OLD ENGLAND;

or All alive at Portsmouth. July 27, 1798. Laurie & Whittle. A droll. 228. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 9497. Also Cr. Momus (p. 16) : Isaac Cruikshank. April 4, 1799. T h e coach, "True Blue," crowded with sailors and pretty women, is driven by a sailor sitting between two of the women. Another rides as postillion, but facing the coach, with a bottle in one hand and the naval ensign in the other. [1239]

ALE (THE) or a patent mash tub for the brewers! March 11 1807. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10794. Baron Ellenborough, in legal wig and gown, fighting for pure ale, tramples on a bag containing "Oppium," "Arsnick," and other adulterants. TRUE

ELLENBOROUCH

[1240]

TRUTH DESTROYING FALSEHOOD, PERJURY, AND TREACHERY. Title written on mount by Temple

Scott. [?Isaac Cruikshank] "An original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank made in 1814." For an original drawing, this date either is the cataloguer's or the printer's error, or else it is not by Isaac. From the Woodin sale cat., item 246.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 9i/ 2 xl3 in. A political cartoon of the Prince Regent. Public opinion in regard to him during most of his regency was such that almost any year in which he was Regent could have been suitable for a cartoon such as this. [1241] or, Cupid's Artillery, A New and Original Valentine writing for the

TURTLE

156

DOVE

(THE)

current year. By Sarah Wilkinson. Frontispiece (folding colored), unsigned but by IC, "in which GC claims to have participated" (Douglas 337). One copy is said to have been inscribed by GC, "By my father Isaac Cruikshank:" Mr. Truman wrote on the flyleaf of his copy that this "inscription was written by George for me. E. T . " [Book] 12mo. 28 pp. London. W. Perks. N.d. [?1813]. If 1813 is the correct date of publication, the frontispiece could conceivably have been made three (or more) years before publication. Not in Cohn or Reid. Bruton catalogue, p. 13, 103. Chubbock, p. 9, no. 55: "Frontisp. by IC assisted by GC." P.U.M.C.: Cruik I (no.) 1813. The print, crudely executed, shows a couple before marriage, caressing, as Cupid lets loose his arrow at them. After marriage, the wife is shown beating her husband with tongs, as Cupid flies out of the window. [1242] 12th May, 1794. Laurie 8c Whittle. Size 6I/2X8S4 inches. 107. Tegg. Jany 10, 1812. (A reissue?) Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8577. Reid 146. Douglas (1060) : "Woodward del. Cruikshank s." The decorations on the cake seem to be by GC. Verses, beneath the title, describe those drawing tickets from the enormous Twelfth Night Cake. The "queen" stabs with a fork the twelfth-cake which stands supported on two inverted wine bottles in the centre. An imp, at her side, is forcing a slice down his throat. A clown, holding a mask in one hand, with the other pours wine down a little companion's throat, who has a funnel in his mouth to facilitate the operation, N.B. A Mr. Malso is said to have a wash drawing of this by IC.

TWELFTH

TWELFTH

watermarked "Whatman, 1819"—obviously a reissue. T h e host distributes Twelfth-night comics to his guests. Only his wife is pleased. T h e figure of the Man of Fashion looks as if done by George or Robert. [1245] A family party. Title written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 244.3 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942), 6y 4 x8i/ 2 in.

TWELFTH

[1243] A pen and ink wash. Design [1794. Laurie and Whittle] Un-

(3x33/4 in.) signed. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8577 (note) : "A small design in pen and wash for the same subject" as BM 8577." See the preceding item (no. 1242). [1244] • • T W E L F T H NIGHT.

Jan. 10th, 1807. Tegg. Caric. Mag., 116. N. 10. Woodward del. Cruikshank s. Not found in BM list. Cohn (2055) : "By Isaac Cruikshank (except the figures on the cake by G. Ck' (Douglas c o p y ) P . U . M . C . : Cruik E 2746. One of my copies is dated 1807, and has no watermark. The other has no date but is on paper

CAKE.

[1246]

Tragedy and Comedy. Wrapper designed by IC. [IC] 8vo. London. 1808. Chubbock, p. 6, no. 36. T W E L F T H NIGHT CHARACTERS.

[1247] T W I N SISTERS

(THE) .

Frontisp. by IC. [Chapbook] Cr. 8vo. Dean and Munday. N.d. (See [Chapbooks] Several bound in one cover.) Cohn sale cat., p. 112. no. 769c.

NIGHT.

NIGHT.

NIGHT

[1247a] T W O HEADS ARE B E T T E R THAN ONE.

May 1806. Holland. Unsigned. [PIC] BM 10563 makes no mention of the artist. Seen by me at the Phila. Free Library (Hampton Carson collection). T h e portrayal of King George is quite typical of Isaac's work; the other figures could be by him also. T h e central figure is that of Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough (Edward Law) in wigs and gown. He is shown with two heads, that on the right repeating "Cabinet, Cabinet, Cabinet." T h e one on the left, looking sourly toward a blindfolded statue of Justice, who holds a sword and scales, calls "Law! Law! Law!" On the far right, King George exclaims, "Two heads are better than one. I like a man with two heads." T h e Goddess of Justice says, "With me you have gained, and shall gain immortal Honor." Ellenborough was much criticized for entering the Cabinet (i.e., politics) while continuing as Chancellor. [1248] [•TWO

HEADS

BEFORE

AND

AFTER

ORDINATION]

Title derived by me from the text, though misidentified there as plate 51. January 14, 1797. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 52, p. 121. Woodward del. Cruikshank scul. BM 9116. T o the left, a bright-faced young man in academic costume; to the right, an older, grayhaired man in clerical garb. 157

[1249] [ • T W O MEN ARGUING]

[PIC] Original watercolor. (514x614 in.) Could be by any of the better caricaturists of the period indicated by the costumes. As much like Rowlandson as IC. [1249a] TWO OF A TRADE CAN NEVER AGREE.

Octr 1. 1798. Fores. IC (very minute, engraved in left-lower corner.) In Phila. Free Library (collection of Hampton Carson). Not found in BM. Two lawyers are quarreling (neither is characteristic of Isaac's work). The taller one says, "You pretend to talk of law you little Puppy. For Six and eight pence I'd take you by the Collar and put you in my Pocket." The short one replies, "Would you you Jackanapes—then you'd have more law in your pocket, than you ever had in your Head in the whole course of your Practice." [1250]

Title supplied and written on mount by Temple Scott in autograph. IC (signed). Original sepia sketch (reinforced with pencil) 9x1314 in. From the Woodin sale cat, item 184.7 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). Fox fighting a six-headed, hydra-like monster. The origin of Tycho, obviously not from the daughter of Atlas or from the Danish astronomer, has not yet been ascertained by me. •TYCHO PLAYED BY CHARLEY.

[1251] U # # # # ' S [VICEROY'S] INTRODUCTION AT ST. J # * * S * S JAMES'S], (THE) , With a new suit of Irish manu-

acture. Pubd by I. Crookshanks. Stanhope St. July 26, 1784. This is the only cartoon I have met that was published by Isaac. Note also the early date and the uncommon spelling of his name as publisher. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 6647. The Duke of Rutland, who has been tarred by the wild Irish, is being led by Pitt to the King. Fox and the Prince of Wales are behind the throne laughing. [1252] or the Ambassador taking proper steps. May 14, 1803. Walker and Knight. IC. BM 9993. Broadley 2, p. 340, no. 859. Whitworth, the British ambassador in Paris, steps into his carriage, as he offers an ultimatum to Napoleon, who is dressed in the caricaturist's conventional costume, but is stout. On April 26 Whitworth had told Talleyrand that unless the British offer was accepted he ULTIMATUM

(THE)

had orders to leave France in seven days. He eventually left on May 12. [1253] * U N TABLE D'HOTE.

Aug. 13, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 8, p. 21. Woodward del. Cruikshank scp. B M 8937. A mixed company, seated at table, exhibit both pleasant and unfortunate reactions. [1254]

•UNCLE GEORGE AND BLACK DICK AT THEIR NEW GAME OF NAVAL SHUTTLECOCK. 1 7 8 7 . J a n . 11

1787. G. Humphry. Unsigned. [Rowlandson] [IC? del, and sc.] (EBK) BM 7126. Grego (Rowlandson, 1, 199) allows that the authorship of this print is doubtful. Most of the figures to me seem—whether in drawing or engraving—as much like Isaac's work as they do like Rowlandson's. The central figure has two heads: Black Dick (the unpopular Lord Howe) and the King. The former tells a group of protesting petitioners that he can do nothing, it is his Majesty's pleasure. The King rejects a group of disabled veterans, saying that he never interferes with the First Lord. [1255]

TO DEATH. Songhead. April 10th 1802. Laurie & Whittle. Isaac Cruikshank. Cohn sale cat. (1023): "Autographed by George in ink as being 'By my Father, Isaac Cruikshank.' " Not found in BM. [1256] •UNFORTUNATE EMILIA (THE) . By Griffiths. Vide Page 77. Vol. III. Cruikshanks delin. Barlow sculp. 12mo. [London] J . Roach. July 1, 1796. An illustration from Roach's Beautiful Extracts of Prosaic Writers (item 1016). The lady faints as a young man hands her a letter. [1257] UNDERTAKERS

DRINKING

••UNION COACH

(THE).

June 4, 1799. Fores. I. Cruikshank. BM 9394. In my second copy, the men's clothes are in different colors from those in the first. Pitt, driving the coach, says the Paddys in the basket are the most troublesome he ever drove. Dundas on top, eating nuts, throws the shells to the Irish. The Scotch ride inside, one of them asking if this is the way to the Treasury. UNLAWFUL UNION!!

[1258]

Feby. 25, 1807. Tegg. 158

Woodward del. [?I. a n d / o r G.] Cruikshank sc. Douglas 1046. Reid 25. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2751. With an ageing couple seated at a table, the wife reminds her spouse of the fortune she had brought him and how fond of her he used to be. She adds that if she were to die he would marry the devil's youngest daughter, if he got any money for it. He replies, "My dear, make yourself easy on that head—you know it is unlawful for a man to marry Two Sisters." Pictures of "Before" and "After" hang on the wall.

Jenner, holding a vaccination knife, drives off three practitioners of inoculation, each armed with huge lancets inscribed "the curse of human kind." They run off, leaving the ground covered by dead infants. A mother holding an infant exclaims, "Surely the disorder of the cow is preferable to that of the ass." T h e vaccination controversy was revived in 1808 by the establishment of the Vaccine Institute. T h i s cartoon correctly emphasizes the superiority of vaccinnation over inoculation.

[1259] U N L U C K Y S H O W E R ( T H E ) —London ladies going to a country dance. 1st May, 1801. Laurie fe Whittle. A droll. 263. Caries., 2, 107. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 9837. Five young women sitting in a country cart, though being rained upon, smile good-humoredly.

V A U X H A L L GARDENS. T H E M U S I C I A N S

[1263] BOXES.

T h e

title written on mount by T e m p l e Scott. Isaac Cruikshank An original watercolor drawing, "signed by the artist." From the Woodin sale cat., item 242.1 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 6s/ 8 x9 in. "Depicts Vauxhall in all its gay display. A finished painting." [1264]

[1260] • U N - R I S E R V E D [ s i c ] FORCES A T T A C K I N G T H E GRAND

VETERAN'S

or General Billy's bold defense. IC. Original sketch [1804] This appears to have been rejected in favor of "A nest of Billy biters," sketched on the front of the same sheet. Bought at Woodin sale, cat. item 184.13 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10xl3i/ 2 in. Pitt, armed with a club ("The Standing Army") and shield ("Royal Favour"), protects the Treasury against attackers. These details are mostly done in pencil (i.e., unfinished); IC's mark, made to indicate the size of the design to be engraved, passes through some of the figures of the attackers.

Aug. 13 1803. Ackermann. A broadside. N.d. Printed by D. N. Shury, Berwick St., Soho. Woodward del. I Ck sc. BM 10065. Broadley 2, p. 349, no. 987 (Latta collection). P.U.M.C.: Cruik IE 2651. An elderly naval officer tells the sailor that an imperious invader threatens their shores, and that he must think of the many British naval heroes. He names thirteen, from Drake to Nelson. A cartoon against Napoleon's threatened invasion of England.

[1261]

Dec. 18 [1809]. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 11386. Cohn (2075): "Chiefly by Isaac with a little work by G.C." Reid 97. W. T . Spencer's copy (1931) was autographed: "By my Father I. Cruikshank, not any of it by me. G.C." Sir Vicary Gibbs drives away Wardle, Dodd and Phillips with a flaming sword marked "Virtue, Modesty, etc.'1 Mrs. Clarke poses as a Vestal Virgin. On the ground lies a scroll listing her faults. See also " T h e Discarded Clark," (item 272, June 1807).

MAGAZINE,

• U N W E L C O M E VISIT

(AN) .

Dec. 26, 1794. Fores. Woodward del. [PIC fee.] BM 8504: [Rowlandson f.] Isaac did many plates for Woodward; I have seen but few of Woodward's engraved by Rowlandson. T h e style is more like Isaac's. I find no reference to this print in Grego. A grim-looking tax collector, with pockets bulging with new taxes and tax books, asks payment from an annoyed John Bull, who is smoking his clay pipe with a glass of "coniac" beside h i m [1262] V A C C I N A T I O N AGAINST S M A L L POX, or mercenary & merciless spreaders of death 8c devastation driven out of society. J u n e 20, 1808. Fores. Cruikshank del. BM 11093. Cohn (2066) : "Mainly by I.C., small points by G.C." Reid 45. Douglas 1250.

ADDRESS T O

A YOUNG

SAILOR

(THE) .

[1265] • V I C A R AND C L A R K E

(THE) .

[1266] •VICTORIOUS

PROCESSION

TO

ST.

PAUL'S

(THE) ,

or Billy's grand triumphal entry. A Prelude. Dec. 11, 1797. Fores. I Cks del. BM 9046. Pitt, sitting astride a muzzled bull (John Bull) on a huge saddle made of taxes, is preceded by Hawkesbury, Canning, the Duke of Richmond, Chancellor Loughborough, Wilber-

159

force, G. Rose, and the Bishop of Rochester. Pitt is followed by Windham, Grenville, Dundas and two other Scots seeking offices. 8x314 in. There is also another cartoon, not by Isaac, "A Victorious Procession to St. Paul's to give thanks for the naval victories." [1267]

Title derived from the text (p. 20). Aug. 13, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 6, p. 19. (Small oval.) Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8935. In front of a halfway house on the road to Acton are groups of various kinds: coach passengers, postillions, loiterers, and so on. • • V I E W A T THE OLD HATS.

[1268] • V I E W IN PEAK HOLE, AFTER PASSING THP FIRST RIVER.

April 15, 1797. Allen & Co., Ecc Exc.: PI. 95 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this plate. T h e same party as in Plate 94 examines the precipitous sides of the hole from a broad flat area at the bottom. Another party (scantily sketched) is visible approaching the descent from its edge. [1269] VIEW OF A COLOSSAL STATUE (A) .

Aug. 23, 1803. Williamson. IC. Broadley 2, p. 349, (Latta collection) 988. No description available. [1270] [ • V I E W OF A SKITTLE GROUND A T HAMPSTEAD]

Aug. 1. 1796. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: Plate 4, p. 14. Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8933. Small ovals in two compartments. In the upper, men are conversing over a bowl of punch; in the lower, a game of skittles is in progress. [1271] •VIEW OF ELDEN HOLE.

April 1, 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. E x c : PI. 93 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM lacks this plate. A guide displays this deep hole to visitors who peer cautiously over its edge. VIEW OF HARROW SCHOOL.

See Frontispiece. View of Harrow (item 408). [1272] • V I E W OF TEA GARDEN AT BAYSWATER.

School

Title de-

rived from text. Aug. 1 1796. Allen & West. Ecc Exc.: PI. 5, p. 19. Woodward del. IC sculp. BM 8934 names no artist. Small ovals in two compartments. In compartment 1 (above), an old man is being scalded from a spilling teakettle. In compartment 2 (below), people are having tea al fresco. [1273] or serious reflections on the flock. May 10th 1805. No pub. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank, script by G.C.] BM 10402. Fox and Sheridan haul a dog with the head of Trotter to a gibbet. Trotter, as Paymaster of the Navy, has been found by the Commission of Naval Enquiry to have speculated with public money. Pitt's head projecting from the upper right-hand corner, behind the gibbet, speaks a few lines of verse. A dog with the head of Melville runs away to Edinburgh. VIEW'D BY THE SHEPHERDS

[1274] or county recruits. Dec. 22, 1794. Fores. Vol. 1, PI. 9. G M Woodward del. [IC sc.] Not found in BM. In each of eight groups an instructor is having his troubles with a stupid villager. 1, trying to stand steady; 2, points his toes together instead of his heels; 3, overdoes holding up his head; 4, forgets all he was told yesterday; 5, does not want to charge with bayonet for fear of hurting someone; 6, can't avoid hesitation when he is hurried; 7, is glad he is praised— is woundedly tired; 8, is sent home for stupidity and is glad he can follow the plough again. •VILLAGE

FENCIBLES,

[1275] (A) . Title derived from the text, p. 100. December 3, 1796. Allen & West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 41 (page not given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sculp. BM 8968. A man in dressing gown and cap, reading from a folio, before an open window, is the virtuoso indicated in the text. A fly sits on the open book. A poor attempt at a crocodile is pictured suspended from the ceiling. •VIRTUOSO AND A FLY

[1276] , of the patriotick attack of the troops national. Rehearsal (inscribed near the top of the design). Cp. "Performance" on "The Fruition of Nantes." (410) plate (not by Isaac?). July 20, 1791. Fores. I. Cruikshank Del. BM 7893. A war scare at Nantes owing to the arrival of two British merchantmen, which were seized by the French national troops. British sailors in •VISION OF NANTES

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(THE)

a rowboat tell them defiantly, "We'll teach you [not to do such things]." An English face in the (left) corner predicts the Commandant's downfall. [1277] • • V I S I T T O THF. F A R M H O U S E

(A) .

Octr 1, 1791. Fores. IC. BM 7905. My two copies show the costume in different colors. T h e Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, each holding a hand, lead the diminutive Duchess of York. Behind them towers the gigantic (actually 6 ft. 10 in.) Sam MacDonald, the Prince's Highlander, in full Highland dress. A farm scene in the background. [1278]

PIC (A) !! with reflections physical and moral. Inscribed beneath the pig: This pig measures 5 feet high 8c 10 feet long. Jan. 7-1799. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9339. T h e King inspects the enormous pig with a spyglass, while Salisbury, the Lord Chamberlain, in uniform, lights the scene with a lantern. The pig had been sent, to placate him, by ex-rebels; but when an Irishman as a joke said it owed its size to having eaten Protestant clergymen, it was ordered to be shot. Such a rumor actually prevented the sale of Irish cured bacon for some months after the Rebellion. • V I S I T TO T H E

IRISH

[1279] VOLUNTARY

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Jany 16. 1798. Fores. I Ck. BM 9157. Pitt and Dundas await the subscriptions. T h e miscarriages of the war are emphasized as a reason for voluntary contributions being collected in addition to the (triple-sized) assessed taxes. The King (behind a door, only face and hands showing) keeps repeating, "Can't afford it. Let us be at peace." [1280] •VOLUNTARY V I C T I M TO PATRIOTISM

(A) ! !

Feb. 18. 1797. Allen 8c West. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 62, p. 145. Woodward del. Cruikshank scp. BM 9126. A man sits looking morosely at a candle, in what appears to be a prison cell, with Excise and Stamps proclamations on the wall. He holds similar papers, against which he presumably has protested. [1281] VOX P O P U L I , VOX DEI.

W. Humphrey, May 23, 1784. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 6594. Fox, holding a Phrygian cap on top of a staff

of Liberty, and the Duchess of Devonshire, protecting herself from envious arrows by a Shield of Virtue, are victorious in the Westminster election over Sir Cecil Wray, who, burdened with bundles of deceit, etc., acknowledges his transgressions. [1282] VOYACE TO

MARGATE.

W. Hinton. Jany 1786. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] BM 70%. Passengers suffering from seasickness in the stern of a hoy, on the trip from London. [1283] or no bodys of 1795. Aug. 4, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [?IC] BM 8757 names no artist. Reproduced, Paston, PI. 49. Four women are all dressed in a similar smock-like garment, three with high, extravagant headgear—a burlesque on the latest fashions. Note the pun in "no bodys." •WAGGONER'S FROCKS

[1284] N.d. or imprint [P1808.

WAITING ON T H E LADIES.

PTegg.] [?I and/or ?G] Cruikshank fecit. P.U.M.C. (Cruik E 2533) : GC. Reid 58. Douglas (1049) : "Without date or imprint, but in British Museum." Cohn (2088) says that his copy is dated June 21st 1817, which indicates that there had been at least one reissue. An elderly maiden is puzzled by the attention of two exquisites. The bow of one offering her wine upsets the footman, who spills his tray on an old woman. A couple sits to one side drinking wine, their figures contrast singularly (Reid 58). [1285] WALKER'S F U L L ACCOUNT O F T H E ARREST O F SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.

[?I.] Cruikshank del. Folding frontispiece. "TTie arrest of Sir Francis Burdett." Douglas 345. Reid 4609. [Chapbook] 12mo. 1810. [1286] WARD O F CHANCERY

(A) .

Feb. 8, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8164. Thurlow's daughter is eloping on the back of a stag that has a man's head. The stag and the daughter gaze affectionately at each other. They are pursued by her father, holding the Chancellor's mace, and several other judges. [1287] •WASHING T H E

BLACKAMOOR.

July 24, 1795. Fores. 161

IC. B M 8667. Reproduced, Paston, PI. 177; see also p. 121. Lady Jersey, the Prince of Wales' mistress, is having her darkish face scrubbed ineffectively by two ladies, while he, basin in hand, urges more scrubbing. T h e Princess in the doorway says it won't do, she must put on another face.

[1288] •WASTE-PAPER.

May 5, 1803. Williamson. I Ck. B M 9989. Broadley 1, 163; 2, p. 341, no. 871. Napoleon (in uniform, but not in any of the conventional caricaturist likenesses) hands J o h n Bull one of four ultimatums, and allows that he has 70,000 more in a large bag that his lackey is carrying. John says he can use it for the bit of waste paper he wanted. On April 26 the French had offered a virtual ultimatum. English concern about the threatened invasion was mounting. [1289] • " W A T C H W I T H DILIGENCE." N.d., n.p. [Fores] No title. (Military Commands Satirized, written in my copy for the group.) G. Ai. Woodward delin. IC [Engraved on the design] Not listed in BM. This is one of five similar plates bound together, all naming Woodward as designer, but only two signed IC; the other three have " I . Cruikshank" in pencil, by the hand of a former owner. Eight figures, each beneath a motto, which they illustrate ironically: 1, (title as above; man asleep) ; 2, Advance with spirit (man yawning) ; 3, Face your enemies (man with back turned) ; 4, Stand to your guns (rifle exploding) ; 5, Reverence treaties (Dutchman on skates) ; 6, Assist your Government (a loafer smoking) ; 7, Obey your orders (man playing cards) ; 8, Rise in a mass (man tipsy, sprawls on ground). [1290] WATCHMAN O F T H E STATE

(THE) .

J u n e 20, 1797. Fores. IC. BM 9024. Wright's Hist, of Caries, in Art, p. 489. Fox, dressed as a watchman, slips away as three trains of powder are being laid to the Houses of Parliament, the Constitution and the Crown, by Home Tooke, Sheridan and Thelevall, while Bedford looks on, sitting on the barrel of powder. T h e reference is to the secession of the leaders of the opposition from Parliament. [1291] W A Y TO M A K E A GOOD L A W Y E R .

April 7, 1803. Williamson.

[Pl.Ck.] An item found in Sessler's card file, attributed by him to Isaac Cruikshank. No further identification has been made. [1292] • W E T H R E E LOGGERHEADS BE.

Septr 28, 1786. Fores. Small (614x814 in.). Unsigned. [PIC1 BM 6987 gives no artist. 6*^x8 in. Half-length figures of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Richmond. T h e likeness of the Prince is not up to IC's usual standard. T h e title is one used on a number of (unsigned) satires, the third man being the spectator. [1293] or downfall of Mrs. Simpkin. [PI 807] Fairburn. Heading to printed verses, Sung by Mr. Bannister. Unsigned. [PI. Cruikshank] B M 10935. A young woman lies unconscious on the ground, thrown from her horse. She is wearing breeches under her gown. T h e verses tell how Simpkin, thinking his wife was dead, had her buried, but she was released by a Resurrectionist. T h e Resurrectionists were men who disinterred dead bodies in churchyards to be used for anatomical dissection. WEARING

THE

BREECHES,

[1294] WEDDING NIGHT

(THE) .

May 20 1797. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 9015. Through an open door, in which Salisbury stands, the wedding bed is seen. T h e Prince and Princess of Wales, the King and Queen, Pitt, Lord and Lady Derby, the Duke of Clarence, and Prince William of Gloucester are walking toward the door. [1295] . No pub. [Pea. 1800] Caries., 8, 94. A support for "Welch" is found in the "hur" used in the text and the justice's phrases. Woodward Del [PI. Cruikshank f.] BM 9651 [PAnsell], An elderly, drink-blotched justice tells a shrewish countrywoman about hearing both sides of a question: "Look yu coot woman, all you say may be ferry true . . . prains [brains] . . . pothers [bothers] . . . apout [about] . . ." A delighted man, behind the woman, grins broadly. WELCH JUSTICE

(A)

[1296] [ca. July 1809] [PTegg] A folding plate from a book or pamphlet. [PI. and/or G. Cruikshank] BM 11350. Mrs. Clarke preens before a mirror in her

WESTBOURNE

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LEVEE,

house at Westbourne Terrace. Mr. Wardle and Major Dodd inspect her admiringly. Mr. W n g h t , the upholsterer, urges payment of his large bill. [1297] • W E S T M I N I S T E R J A N U S AND HIS O P P O N E N T

(THE) .

July 18, 1786 [?8]. Holland. Small (87/8x9s/8 in.). Unsigned. [?IC] BM 7341 names no artist. Hood-Pitt is a two-headed figure, Hood stating that he had voted for the repeal of the Shop Tax, Pitt saying it is best to cajole them, but carry two faces under a Hood. Pitt's oponent, Townsend, addresses a seated crowd, one of which tells him what the two-faced man should be called: "A candidate with two Heads and two Consciences; the first he exhibits for our amusement here, and the last secures him a pocket full of goldfinches from the T y. [1298] (THE) O r palace yard pranks. Nov. 20 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8690. Fox, as a quack doctor, on a platform supported by barrels of Whitbread's Entire, describes his performers: T h e first tumbler in the world (the Duke of Bedford standing on his head) , and a slack rope artist who will some day dance on a tight rope (Lord Lauderdale). A Pierrot with a trumpet (Grey) tells of his master's many cures, while a dancing clown (Sheridan) flings to the grasping public paper strips, inscribed "Caustics for Crimps," "Powder for Placemen," 'Aqua Regis for Royalists," etc. T h i s satirizes a meeting held four days earlier in the Palace Yard to petition the Commons against the Seditious Meetings bill. [1299] WESTMINSTER RACES. (Below the design) A political heat run in Covent Garden between Old Veteran, a famous horse the property of his Majesty, a filly, the property of the Duke of D and Judas, an obstinate ass who was clearly distanced. Pub. by W. Humphrey. 19 May 1784. IC. BM 6589. Hood and Fox, as candidates for Parliament, are racing past the Distance Post; the woebegone Sir Cecil Wray, the third candidate, is on a kicking ass, at a standstill, having lost his reins and stirrups. [1300] WET PARTY (THE) or the bogs of Flanders. A new Song. Dec. 7, 1793. Fores. IC. BM 8351. T h e Duke of York, astride a cannon and holding an overfull bowl in his hand, exhorts •WESTMINSTER

MOUNTEBANK

his men, who are partly submerged in water, one being u p to his neck. All meet the situation cheerfully. T h e song consists of lines engraved on both sides of the title. "Why Soldiers Why/Whose business t'is to die/Should we be Melancholy, boy;/ W h a t sighing fie!/ Why, Soldiers, Why?/Damn fear, drink on, be jolly, boys!/ 'Tis he, you or J / W e ' r e allways bound to follow, boys, annd [sic] scorn to fly!/ Cold, hot wet or dry." [1301] W H A WANTS

ME.

Oecr. 26, 1792. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8146. BM 8146a has a slight change in detail: Paine's head is turned to the left, and the bundle of weapons is marked "Levelling instruments," etc. T h i s cartoon pertains to Paine's letter three months earlier to the French Convention offering services. He carries a bundle of weapons on his back. Around his head are rays ("Cruelty," "Treason," "Famine," etc.), as he tramples on scrolls ("Loyalty," "Magna Carta," 'Justice," etc.). Paine fled to France, as outlawed, and never returned to England. WHICH

is

BEST.

[1302] French W a r vs. English Peace.

J a n . 1, 1793. Fores. U n s i g n e d .

[PIC] Spencer (1922 No. 64) listed this as by IC. Not found in BM catalogue. [1303] i TURN M E How shall I decide. March 25, 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8317. Fox, surrounded by pistols, poison, gallows and a dagger, is horrified by the words flashed at him as darts of lightning. A number of caricaturists joined in damning Fox's Jacobin tendencies. • W H I C H WAY SHALL

[1304] WHIM

O F T H E DAY

(THE) .

Frontispieces by IC. [Book] 4 vols. 12mo. Pub. not given. 17901793. Vol. 1, front., title, pre. leaves 5, pp. [13]-120. Vol. 2, front., title, pre. leaves 3, pp. [ 13]—108. Vol. 3, frontis, title, pre. leaves 3, pp. [I3]-116. Vol. 4, front., title, pre. leaves 3, pp. [7]—114. gives no further details. Chubbock (p. 1, item 23). Not in Cohn. [1305] or the Bedford level!!

WHIMS OF THE MOMENT

N o 20. 1795. Fores. G. Woodward del. [I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8763. A well-dressed man, holding his queue in his

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hand, regards the cropped back of his neck in horror. In another compartment, a farmer with an ugly expanse of neck tells his wife he had his "toil" docked to be the "go." T h e Duke of Bedford was noted for his cropped hair. [1306] •WHIMSICAL WILL

( A ) 11

Oct. 1, 1807. Tegg. 280. 27. Woodward delt. [PIC fecit.] BM 11148: [Williams fecit.] In the B M copy the date, which has been erased, is given as [P1808]; but is clearly 1807 in my copy. All the figures might have been engraved by Cruikshank, though crude and typically Woodwardian). Especially like an IC, or RC, is T i m Dash at extreme right. A lawyer reads Timothy Whimsey's will to the family. Its comments produce varied reactions. Note the pun on the Will-maker's name and the first word of the title of the engraving. [1307] W H I T E G H O S T IN I R E L A N D

(A)

April 8, 1807. [There was at least one reissue on paper watermarked "1816."] Tegg. No. 154. Caric., 3. Woodward del. [?I.] Cruikshank sp. A.S.W.R., p. 211. Sessler, 1917. A tomcat scares two men and a dog. [1308] •WHITEWASHING

A

DARLING

WHITE-WASHING

SHOP

AT

THE

ORIGINAL

or how to make a black general white. April 3, 1809. Johnstone. Unsigned. JT (and ?G) Cruikshank] BM 11299. T h e Duke of York, who is in a tub marked "Royal Washing Machine," which is filled with brow-beating froth, is being scrubbed by Perceval (large, spectacled) and Canning. T h e Duke is holding a letter ("My dearest darling") . Burdett says, "There is the Honor of a P — c e for you"; Moira: "Dam—d Black"; Sheridan: " H a Ha." T h e Duke was later acquitted of direct corruption. [1309] W H I T E L O C K T H E SECOND or another tarnish of Brish valor. Sepr 29, 1808. Fores. G. [?and I.] Cruikshank. BM 11035. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2576. Reid 48. Douglas (1253): "G. Cruikshank." Cohn, (2103); "a caricature on the convention concluded at Cintra by Sir Hew Dalrymple and Gen'l Kellerman." Value £3 (1924). Admiral Cotton, Dalrymple and Wellesley humble themselves before Junot on such matters as the removal of his plunder. A Portuguese gentleman is complaining of the mistake he was under about British honor. T h e popu-

lar outcry in England eventually forced a Court of Inquiry. [1310] WHITHER

MY

LOVE!—AH!—WHITHER

ART

THOU

GONE.

April 28, 1798. Fores. Caries., 7, 5. Woodward del. Cruikshank sp. BM 9311. A woman has fallen head first down a cellar window, only her legs and petticoats showing. An artisan staggers forward in dismay at her disappearance. [1311] • W H O K I L L S F I R S T F O R A CROWN.

May 29, 1790. Fores. Unsigned. BM 7649: [Rowlandsonl. See Grego (1, p. 274). He does not state whether the names of the riders were printed or written by hand. [?ICsc.] Several figures are typical of IC's work. In the upper half of the print, in the BM copy, a crowned stag (George III) is being chased toward Windsor by a pack of hounds with human heads (portraits; names marked by a former owner in pencil) : Sheridan, Duke of Queensbury, Fox, Loughborough, Powys, Burke, Lord Stormont. They are being whipped on by the Prince of Wales, while a dog that is urinating (Pitt) refuses to follow. In the lower half, a crowned stag (Louis X V I ) is being chased toward Versailles by a pack with human heads: (in ink, starting near the huntsman) 1, "Madam La Ctess de Buffon"; 2, "Madm La Ctess de Blot"; 3, " L e Cte de la Touche"; 4, " L e Mis [Marquis] de Sillery"; 5, "le Cte de Vauban"; 6, "le Bn de Talleyrand"; 7, "M de Limon." T h e huntsman, blowing his horn, is the Due d'Orléans. In both the BM's and my copy, the names of the hounds have been written in by contemporary hands. Two differences from the B M are noted in my copy; Lothian (in place of Fox) and the next two unmarked. T h e English names are in pencil, and more recently inserted than the French names, which are in ink. [1312] WHOLE ART OF

LEGERDEMAIN.

Frontisp. by IC. [Chapbook] T . and R . Hughes. N.d. Cohn sale cat. (1920), p. 113, item 766a. [1313] •WHOLE

LENGTH

FIGURES

OF

WELCH

PEASANTS.

April 15. 1797. Allen & Co. Ecc. Exc.: PI. 98 (no page given). Woodward del. Cruikshanks sc.p. BM lacks this plate. A pleasant-looking couple, the woman barefooted. T w o turkeys peer from a closed basket.

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[1314] or the effects of an invasion!! Nov. 21. 1796. Fores. Woodward del. [?I. Cruikshank f.] BM 8838. Twelve persons (a citizen, a tailor, a cobbler, a "tarnished woman," a crippled veteran, etc.), all with words etched above their heads, tell how they will defeat the invader. A political cartoon against the French threat of invasion of England. Compare a similar situation in 1803.

Truman has written 'G.Ck' on the print." Reid 43. Douglas 1248. Both colored and uncolored items in my collection. T h e General's figure strongly suggests Isaac's handiwork. General Whitelock being degraded by two small soldiers cutting off his epaulets and breaking his sword on his head. T o the devil's offer of a pistol, "Fellow if thou hast a spark of courage left, take this"—he replies, "Have you taken the flint out."

[1315] [sic]!! or great and glorious news for old England. Aug. 1809. Johnstone. I. Ck. BM 11358. Sir William Curtis, dining on his yacht, in quasi-nautical costume, tells his rough-looking servant how courageous he has been.

P. Stampa. Augt. 26, 1800. Unsigned. [PIC] Colored mezzotint. Cannon collection, no. 263. A skating scene. An old man has fallen, lost his wig, and cracked the ice. Two young men are cutting figures. Behind are spectators, a man putting on skates, and a tent.

WHO'S

AFRAID,

WHOSE AFFRAID

[1316] WIDOW TICE.

(THE)

[1320]

AND HER CHILD PRAYING FOR JUS-

T i t l e written on mount by Temple Scott

[IC] Two of the thirteen in this group were not "signed with initials." An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 249.9 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 9 i / 2 x l l i 4 in. [1317] WIDOW

[1319a] WINTER.

WADDLE

(THE)

OF

CHICKABIDDY

QUARTERS.

Dec. 14. 1793. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 8355. An officer (the Duke of York?) sits before a blazing fire, reading a newspaper and surrounded by reports. His army was then in cantonments at Tournay. [1321]

LANE.

Octr. 12th 1807. Tegg. V.2. 6. Sung by Mr. Grimaldi. Unsigned. [I. (and ?G.) Cruikshank] BM 10929. Cohn 2104. Douglas 1810. Houghton Library has this print, which it attributes to Isaac. Value 30 shillings (1924). She attacks her husband with a stool, while a Jew and a pot-boy look on with delight. [1318] W I L L I A M , ARMED CAP-A-PIE, SOLICITING T H E HONOUR T O ACCOMPANY T H E GRAND E X P E D I T I O N ; w i t h

Cruikshank's terrific visions, See. A Hudibrastic tale. Sepr. 1809. John Fairburn. A broadside with colored print and text printed in two columns on Whatman paper, watermarked 1809. Not found in BM Vols. 8 & 9. [?I. and/or G.] Cruikshank invt. et sculp. Listed in Sessler's Cruikshank file. Not in Cohn. William [Sir William Curtis) faces a man standing behind a table, while fish, crabs, etc., float toward him. He has a vegetable for a helmet, a soup kettle on his chest, funnels on his knees, etc. [1319] ••WINGING A SHY COCK.

WINTER

Mar. 29. 1808. Fores. Unsigned. [I. or ?G. Cruikshank] In BM 10975: "Dr.

•WISDOM LED BY VIRTUE AND PRUDENCE TO T H E T E M P L E OF

FAME.

May 6, 1784. J . Wallis. Unsigned. [PIC del. and/or sc.] BM 6573: [PKingsbury] (active 1775-1798)]. Fox ("Wisdom"), better dressed than usual in the caricaturist convention, is escorted by two adulatory ladies, the Duchess of Devonshire ("Virtue") and Lady Duncannon ("Prudence") , toward Britannia, who exclaims, "Welcome to my arms." Sir Cecil Wray (his hair composed of writhing snakes) laments his fate. [1322]

( T H E ) or great doubts about the Thing!!! April 21st 1810. Fores. [I. and G.] Crk. BM 11545. Reid 108. Douglas 873. Cohn 2107. P.U.M.C.: Cruik E 2509. T h e problem of the execution of the Speaker's warrant against Burdett ("the Thing") here produces many different expressions of opinion, none helpful, among the Ministers; the Thing appears as a tripod, of which two legs (the King and the Lords) lie on the table. T h e Commons remains in place. WISE MEN OF GOTHAM PUZZLED

[1323] [ • W I T H T H E E I SCALE T H E ANTIQUE RUIN'D T O W ' R ]

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ETC. Colored engraving opp. p. 30 of Savillon's Elegies, q.v. 1795. [I.] Cruikshanks del. Author Invent. B. Reading sculp. The title is the first line of a four-line stanza engraved beneath the design, the other three lines are: "Or haunt the lone retreat of cupids borer;/And as you vent aloud repeated woes,/ In untold grief the silent tear-drops flows." See also an uncolored copy in a set of four placed under [Book Illustrations from Savillon's Elegies], [1324] W I T H E R [sic] M Y LOVE, Ah, whitfyer art thou gone. [PI 806. PFores] Unsigned. [?Woodward del PCniikshank sp], BM 9311a (this and 9311 "appear to belong to a numbered series published by Fores in 1806"). A similar cartoon "Whither my love," etc, appears in Caricatures 1798 (item 1310). [1325] WITTICISMS, ANECDOTES, JESTS, AND SAYINGS DR. s. J O H N S O N , collected from Boswell

OF

and other gentlemen. And a full account of Dr. J's conversation with the King; to which is added a number of jests by J. Merry. Frontispiece by IC. [Book] 8vo. Pp. 72. London. 1791. Chubbock, p. 1, no. 3. [1326] WOLFE, LIFE OF.

r?iq

[Chapbook] 8vo. No imprint data. (See [Chaptxx>ks] Eight bound in one cover.) Conn sale cat., p. 133, item 767b. See next item for his adventures as a robber, and so on. [1327] • W O L F E ; T H E EXTRAORDINARY L I F E AND SINGULAR ADVENTURES O F — W H O WAS THIRTY YEARS A NOTORIOUS ROBBER, MURDERER, AND CAPTAIN O F A GANG O F F I F T Y - T H R E E THIEVES.

Frontispiece: I.C. del. P.D. set. Wolfe the Robber shooting the Game Keeper. [Book] Dean and Mundy, London, 12mo. N.d. Price sixpence. Not listed in Cohn. [1328] W O M A N (A) A I M I N G A GUN AT A R U F F I A N . Title written on mount by Temple Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From the Woodin sale cat., item 249.4 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 8i4xl0s/ 8 in. "Undoubtedly intended for a political caricature." [1329] • W O M A N TAKEN IN ADULTERY (THE) , or Mary the Magdalen. Mar. 15. 1809. Fores. Unsigned. [I. (?and G.) Cruikshank] BM 11254. Reid

67. Cohn (2109): "With a little work by G.C., chiefly by I. Ck." Value 30 shillings (1924). Mrs. Clarke standing penitently before George III, who asks, "Where are thine accusers." She answers, "No man, Sir." He replies "Neither do I accuse thee, go thy way." O'Meara says, "Have I not preached oft and oft on the danger of adultery"; to which the Duke of York (dressed as a bishop) replies, "Aye but that was not in our Parish." [1330] W O M A N ' S DELEGATION (A) T O A CLERICAL CONVOCATION. Title written on mount by Temple

Scott. Isaac Cruikshank. An original drawing. From Woodin sale cat., item 247.8 (ParkeBernet Gall., 1942). 6 5 / ^ x 1 3 i n . [1331] " W O N BY T H E CHARM O F GOODNESS IRRESISTABLE IN SWEET DISORDER LOST SHE BLUSH'D C O N S E N T . "

3x414 in. [N.d. or pub.] Engraving. J. (i.e. I) Cruikshanks delt. R. Laurie fecit. H. E. W. Library (Harvard). A gentleman farmer wins the fair lady's hand. Reapers are seen working in the fields behind them, a greyhound in the foreground. A wellexecuted etching, probably for a book. [13321 • W O O D I N [an e erased under the i] T R I U M P H (A) , or a new idol for the ragamuffins. May 14th 1800. (an 1 is printed in ink over the first 0 of 1800). Walker. Cornhill. Unsigned. [?IC del and/or sc] BM 11556: [Williams]. Only the four bewiggled figures on the coach are characteristic of IC's style. A coach being dragged and surrounded by a rabble shouting, "Burdette forever." Sheriff Wood leans out of the coach window calling, "Burdette for ever, huzza my lads he's no drug." In the background the people are waving their hats. [1333] W O R T H Y ALDERMAN

(A)

AND HIS FRIENDS CANVAS-

ING [SIC] or strong recommendations for a membr [sic] of Parliament. March 3, 1795. Fores. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank] BM 8626. Alderman Combe, an amateur of boxing, and William Lushington are ready for a boxing match, with seconds, anent the by-election for the City of London. [1334] WRANGLING FRIENDS (THE) or opposition in disorder. May 10 1791. Fores. JN. [PNixon del., I. Cruikshank f.] BM 7855. Fox (weeping) and Burke part company in the House of Commons. Addington, the

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Speaker, utters pious sentiments. Actually, since the House was in Committee, the Speaker would not have been in the chair. [1335] •YEOMANRY

CAVALRYII

Mar. 7, 1796. Fores. Woodward delin. IC (small). Not found in BM list. Six mounted Yeomen, in uniform, but with differently colored tunics. Each has a different kind of beginner's riding trouble. [1336] " Y E S I ACKNOWLEDGE VERY TRUE, T H E R E F O R E M Y VALENTINE ARE Y O U . "

An illustration from The Lovers' new Valentine Letter Writer (Cohn 513). "Isaac Cruikshank" (in ink in George Cruikshank's hand). London. J . Bailey. N.d [?1813], [1337] •YET

DAUNTLESS

STILL,

UPON

THE

WASTEFUL

Colored engraving opp. p. 39 of Savillon's Elegies (q.v.), 1795. [I.] Cruikshanks del. Author Invent. B. Reading sculp. This title is the first line of the sixth stanza (Plate 3). See also an uncolored copy in a set of four, listed under book illustrations from Savillon's Elegies (item 89) . In an Elegy written on the Sea Coast at Margate, the stanza reads: "Yet dauntless still, upon the wasteful shore,/I watch the surges mount the rocky step; /Breaking, I hear them clash with frantic roar,/ And fall in vanquish'd murmurs to the deep." T h e engraving is well executed and, like the others by Isaac in this volume, is far superior to the text they illustrate. [1338] YORK DILLY ( T H E ) , or the triumph of innocence. March 30th 1809. Tegg. Unsigned. 94. [Rowlandson.] BM 11274. [PIC sculp.] Grego (Rowlandson, 2, 155). T h e Duke of York blowing a horn sits in a coach driven by a lawyer (PWilliam Adam). Mrs. Clarke, as a termagant, clenches her fists at the Duke. The people apparently were strongly against the charge of the Duke's personal corruption. People shout, "Huzza! Glorious news for old England" (Cp. secondary title above). Grego gives a similar picture with some additions (e.g., placard on a roof reading, "Acquitted"; "Glorious majority of 82.") A stout clergyman comments, "I always said she was innocent." [1339] •YORK J I G ( T H E ) , hie est, cujas amans hospita capta dolo est. Sept. 9, 1788. Fores. SHORE,

ETC.

Ralph Juvenal Esqr. Feet. [?IC del. and/or fee.] BM 7373: [?James Hook], The figures are all so much like IC's work that I would readily ascribe the plate to him, were it not for the BM's suggestion. The Duke of York in court dress dances a jig with a pretty housemaid in mob cap and apron. Verses (engraved below the title) lament his desertion of Lady Tyrconnel, seated on a bench in the rear. "See see the fair one by her Guest betray'd/ By York deserted rivall'd by her Maid/ —T—r—n—1, lovely Bride, no longer mourn/ His love, Since Spider Brushes serve his Turn,/ The Cook maid next will strike this loving Man/ With kissing Crusts, 8c Meat sops in the Pan." In a balcony box, two men are blowing horns; below them is written "Horns! Horns! Horns!" [13401 . "A Political Cartoon" is added to the title, which is repeated on the mount by Temple Scott. IC. Signed in ink. Original colored sketch (1809). From Woodin sale cat., item 184.10, p. 39 (Parke-Bernet Gall., 1942). 10xl2i/ 2 in. Mrs. Clarke, with a switch in her hand, berates (see following item) the kneeling Duke of York, who replies, "In in in deed, I'll be good if you forgive me this time and I'll be very secret if ever I do so any more." Behind her, Wardle (so indicated in pencil in margin) speaks as is giVen in the print. All three figures are stiff and carelessly drawn, though this is a real IC (cp. his initials on the mat). The speeches of the three persons are identical with those of the published engraving in words and meaning—only a few insignificant differences in capitals and punctuation. The lettering of the speeches is not in Isaac's hand. •YORK

MISTRESS

(THE)

[1341] YORK MISTRESS

(THE) .

March 1809. No pub. Unsigned. [IC del.] BM 11285 names no artist, but see the IC on the original sketch, the preceding item, with the same title. T h e Duke of York, in uniform, kneels before Mrs. Clarke, who says, "Are not you ashamed of your Self to see all the great boys laughing at you. You ought to be—you are old enough but I am afraid you have no shame in you." Weeping, he says, "In in in deed I'll be very good. If you forgive me this time and I'll be very Secret if ever I do so any more." Wardle's soliloquy is hard to take seriously (perhaps it is not meant to be) : "Well has he been mark'd out the Scourge of Lawless Pride and dire ambi-

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tion the great avenger of the groaning world, well has he worn die Sacred cause of Justice upon his prosperous Sword and approving heaven still crown'd the Righteous Warrior with Success as if he said go forth and be my Champion thou most like me of all my Works below." Reid (64) describes a print by Fores, March 1, 1809, under the title " T h e York Sparring Match," with a somewhat similar design.

J?I. Cruikshank] BM 9824. Two yokels before an inn swap tall tales about their fertility of their county's soil. T h e Yorkshireman boasts that there if you put a horse in a "close" (closed field?) at night, you would not be able to find him next morning, he'd be so hidden by the grass. [1346] YOUNG G E N T L E M E N

[1342] • Y O R K S H I R E BUM KINS MISTAKE ( T H E ) .

Aug. 6, 1807. Tegg. Unsigned by IC, but clearly his work. Woodward del. [?IC sculp.] Not found in BM catalogue. T h e doorman of a London residence says to the bumpkin footman, who is dressed in proper style, "Tell the Dowager, my Lady is gone to Court." T h e footman thinks that is strange, where he comes from the ladies expect that of the men. T h e Dowager's palanquin, with six flunkies, is seen in the background. [1343] . Heading to printed verses: Sung by Mr. Emery at Covent Garden Theatre.-12th April 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 391. Unsigned. [IC1 A.S.W.R., p. 215. BM 10502: [?G. Cruikshank]. It is unlikely that GC, a youth of 13, would have produced such an engraving without help. A liveried footman points at country people seated about a punchbowl and describes a "rout" given by the grocer's wife at their Yorkshore home. An ass brays, the guests sing, and a m a n falls in a tub. YORKSHIRE CONCERT

(THE)

[1344] ( T H E ) , or adventures of a potatoe [sic] merchant. Augt 20. 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle. 400. Engraved verses: Written by Mr. G. Nicks 8c sung by Mr. Emery. Unsigned. [?I. Cruikshank del.] BM 10508. A jovial Irishman points to his potatoes and tells about his past. Two old crones shell peas, while smoking pipes. A porter listens. A lady buys cucumbers. T h e verses tell of his parents' moonlight flitting from Ireland, the death of his father a year before his birth, 8cc. They end: "At last I was drawn up to town,/ Without in my pocket a farden/ But since I've earn'd many a crown,/ By the shop here, in Sweet Common Garden." YORKSHIRE IRISHMAN

[1345] • Y O R K S H I R E M E T H O D E [ s i c ] O F FINDING A HORSE (A).

July 1. 1801. Fores. Caries., 8, 86. Unsigned.

IN T H E DRESS O F T H E

YEAR

1798. Janry 6, 1798. Fores. Woodward del. Cruikshank. S. BM 9312. A close copy (BM 9312a), with the same title, was later published (P1806) in Caries., 10, 220. T h e plate shows three men whose fashionable dress is not suitable to their age and ugliness. [1347] YOUNG LADIES.

J u n e 7, 1795. Fores. G. M. Woodward Del. IC. (W and IC carved on the trunk of a tree). BM 8749. Three old hags, dressed as young girls in high-waisted dresses and sashes, simper at each other as they read. [1348] YOUNG LADY AND G E N T L E M E N ' S NEW RIDDLE BOOK (THE) .

Frontispiece and title by IC. [Book] 12mo. Pp. [3]-60. London. J. Roach. 1794. Chubbock, p. 2, no. 8. Cohn sale cat., no. 757b. [1349] YOUNG OXONIAN OUTWITTED

(THE) .

12th Jany 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle. A droll. 263. Unsigned. [IC] A.S.W.R., p. 213. BM 9836 names no artist. T h e boy, his cap and gown hanging on a peg, stands by a table where his father is seated, holding a bird in each hand. T h e boy allows he'll show him an example of the logic taught at college by making the two fowls three— "there's one and this is two, now two and one make three." But the father replies, "All right, Mother will take one, I the second and thou keep the third for thy pains." [1350] • Y O U N G ROSCIUS AND HIS P A P P A IN C O M P A N Y W I T H J O H N BULL.

Jan. 4, 1805. Fores. Unsigned. [I. Cruikshank] BM 10458. John Bull, at table with Roscius (Mr. Betty) and his son. T h e boy, six or eight years old, drinks their health in red wine, of which they both partake. 168

APPENDIX Items associated with Isaac Cruikshank, catalogue.

but with insufficient

evidence to be included in the main

Group 1. FIVE ITEMS CONSISTING OF ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY Isaac Cruikshank, arranged in groups in the sale catalogue of the Woodin collection (1942), which (because in a given group not all are listed as by Isaac, without designating which are and are not his, or because of other intrinsic evidence) cannot be unqualifiedly ascribed to Isaac Cruikshank. Group 2. Items ascribed to Isaac in the Rosenbach catalogue, but with insufficient evidence (incompatible dates, signatures, etc.) to be included in the main catalogue. Group 3. Unsigned items assigned in the British Museum Catalogue doubtfully to one Ansell (listed as [?Ansell]). T h e identity of this artist seems to depend on the opinion of a Mr. Edward Hawkins, Keeper of Antiquities in the British Museum, whose decisions, according to Broadley, 1 were thought expedient to accept, as he, having begun his collection in 1828, might have known Ansell and his contemporaries. T h e Introduction to Vol. 7 of the British Museum Catalogue states that Ansell, whose work began in 1797, is easy to identify. This I have not been able to agree with, nor apparently had the editor, in view of the number of prints that were only doubtfully ascribed to him. Such items as a few prints in my own collection that for any reason—the style of the artistic work, the handwriting, an overlooked signature, etc.—seem to be probably true IC's, even though not entered in the British Museum Catalogue as doubtful, have been included in my main catalogue. T h e rest are found in Group 3. THESE FALL INTO THREE CATEGORIES.

Group 1. T h e bracketed items appeared in small type in the Woodin catalogue, presumably as the catalogue editor's substitute for a non-existent title. 1. Illustration (An) for a Book (65^ x 5i/ 2 in.) (Perhaps never used. Subject unknown). Woodin sale cat., item 248.13. 2. [Lady (A) Seated] In red and black pencil. (6% x 4i/ 2 in.) Woodin sale cat., item 248.19. 3. [London Characters] Several drawings. 1802-1805. (All ca. x 3 in.) Woodin sale cat., items 248.2-9. 4. [Man (A) Throwing a Dog out of a Window] (3% x 4% in.) Woodin sale cat., item 248.17. 4a. [Three men talking] Pen and ink drawing. (5% x 4 in.) Woodin sale cat., item 248.18. Group 2. Items can be identified by the page number, exactly as they appear in Rosenbach's book. 1 Broadley, Vol. 1, p. 45, 1911, speaks of t h e late E d w a r d Hawkins, f r o m whose executors t h e p u r c h a s e d a large collection in 1868.

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5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.

Adventures of young whipstitch. Aug. 12, 17%. p. 212. Advertisement. Pitt 8c Co. Washable beaver hats. p. 217. Alas poor Thomas. Epitaph on Mungo Smart. Feb. 1, 1799. p. 213. All lotteries will end forever, p. 217. Art of walking the streets of London. PL 2, Cruikshank fecit. Tegg. 181 (58) Caricatures, 2, 7 A.S.W.R. p. 6, 1. 22. As you are quietly walking along in the vicinity of Smithfield, etc. Unsigned. Tegg, no. 301. p. 211. Barney leave the girl alone. Oct. 24, 1806. p. 215. Beggar's Petition (The), p. 216. Being Accelerated in your walk, etc. Signed Cruikshanks. Tegg, no. 304. p. 211. Being mounted on a beast, etc Signed Cruikshanks. Tegg, 287. p. 211. Bond Street lounger (A). June 24, 1800. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Bond Street lounger recently detected (A). Nov. 18, 1802. p. 214. Bone to pick (A). Feb. 1, 1798. p. 213. Box-lobby challenge (A). May 12, 1794. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Britons united: The world cannot conquer. Sept. 1, 1807. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 216. Broom sold (The), p. 216. Capital fowling piece (A). Sept. 1, 1803. p. 214. Charing Cross. July 25, 1804. p. 214. Chertsey Abbey. Douglas (1414) states that it was described by Reid as a gentleman's house; I.R.C. del, I.C. sculp.; and was in The Briton Collection. Reid 623 (wrong reference) p. 217. Circulating library (The). Oct. 1, 1804. p. 215. Collection (A) of hobgoblins. Feb. 25, 17%. (A Collection of Ghosts, dated Feb. 26, 17%, is listed in main cat.) p. 212. Comfort in a hurricane. May 12, 1803. p. 214. Cradle hymn (The). p. 216. Debating Society. May 5, 1795. BM 8771 gives no artist's name. p. 212. Difficult kiss (The). Aug. 20, 1794. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Disagreeable intrusion (The). Sept. 4, 1795. p. 212. Duellist (The). April 4, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 215. Epitaph on Mungo Smart. Oct. 4, 1802. Laurie 8c Whittle. (Cp. item 7, dated 1799.) p. 214. Experiment (An). April 16, 1804. p. 214. Exquisite (An). Unsigned. Tegg, no. 327. p. 211. Family economy. June 4, 1804. p. 214. Family physician (The). Jan. 20, 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Farmer 8c the parson (The). July 24, 1797. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Fellow feeling. Feb. 4, 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Foot pad's, or much ado about nothing. May 4, 1795. p. 212. Friend in-kneed (A) is a friend indeed. Dec. 24, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 215. Game of bumble puppy (The). Oct. 3, 1803. p. 214. Gentleman of moderate income (A). Nov. 28, 1796. p. 212. Ghost (The), or Paddy and the black cat. Jan. 24, 1801. Laurie Sc Whittle, p. 213. Grave physician (A) 8c lively cobler. May 12, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Great Match between Randal and Martin (The), p. 216. High German doctor (A). Jan. 1, 1803. p. 214. Honor of Precedence (The). Oct. 22, 1804. p. 215.

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48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92.

H u m a n e general ( T h e ) . July 13, 1801. p. 213. Inconvenience in the line. Jan. 24, 1804. p. 214. Innkeepers daughter ( T h e ) . April 20, 1801. p. 213. Inseparable friends ( T h e ) . Sept. 3, 1797. p. 212. Irish method of curing a smoky chimney. Dec. 18, 1798. p. 213. Irishman (An) and his three prisoners. Dec. 12, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 215, 216. Jerry Diddler and the cockney. July 1, 1805. p. 215. Jew in Grain, The. Hodgson and Co. p. 216. Kiss ( T h e ) . April 12, 1804. Laurie & Whittle, p. 216. Knibs Pound. Sept. 22, 1806. Laurie & Whittle. Plain and colored, p. 215. Lecture on gadding (A). Feb. 12, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Madame Giradelli. p. 217. Maid of Milford Haven ( T h e ) . Jan. 15, 1810. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 216. Man (The) who wanted to know whether he was a witch or no. Sept. 8, 1806. Laurie & Whittle, p. 215. Manchester heroes. Reid, 915. (Reid names no artist and gives no date.) p. 217. Marjorie Link and Doleful Dumps. Dec. 1, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 215. Margaretta. March 12, 1804. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Marvelous Story (A). Dec. 1, 1803. p. 214. Matrimonial Confessions. May 21, 1804. p. 214. Melchisedec Bristle. Sept. 1, 1798. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Men of Honor. J u n e 20, 1803. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Minuet-la-cour. Unsigned. Tegg No. 193. p. 211. Monkeys ( T h e ) . Nov. 12, 1804. p. 215. Monsieur Kaniferstane. Oct. 4, 1796. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Monsieur Tonson. Dec. 22, 1795. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Old dog's legacy. Feb. 1, 1800. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Paddy and the fireman. March 16, 1798. Laurie & Whittle, p. 213. Paying tythes in kind. Jan. 24, 1795. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 212. Pink of the mode (A). Nov. 18, 1803. p. 214. Political consistency. Feb. 26, 1798. p. 213. Poor Snip and family frightened by a thunder storm. July 30, 1798. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Progress of heroism. April 9, 1796. p. 212. Rain-beau (A) and a rose-bud. Jan. 1, 1803. p. 214. Rival corps ( T h e ) . Feb. 12, 1804. p. 214. Robin and Sue. April 12, 1799. p. 213. Romps in the hay field. April 4, 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 213. Sailor's life in a calm (A). Dec. 12, 1803. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Scholar (A), a bald man and a barber. July 27, 1801. p. 214. School for Parsons. Feb. 26, 1798. p. 213. Scotch reel (A). Aug. 20, 1795. p. 212. Sea captain's description of a fox chace ( T h e ) . J u n e 10, 1797. p. 212. Smithfield courtship ( T h e ) . May 1, 1805. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 215. Smothering a rabbit with onions. Nov. 23, 1801. Laurie & Whittle, p 214. Sound argument. May 12, 1796. p. 212. Spanish patriot (A). July 15, 1808. Laurie 8c Whittle. (Cp. Fores' print, a day earlier, with slightly different title, by I. and G. Cruikshank.) p. 216.

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93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104.

105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114.

Speculation. Oct. 12, 1798. p. 213. Spouting club (A). May 12, 1794. p. 212. St. Andrew's day. Nov. 1. 1800. p. 213. St. David s day. May 1, 1801. Laurie & Whittle, p. 213. St. Patrick's day in the morning. May 24, 1803. Laurie & Whittle, p. 214. That accounts for it. Jan. 15, 1799. p. 213. Tickets for the lying-in hospital. Dec. 15, 1802. Laurie & Whittle, p. 214. T o be seen alive, alive O. Sept. 4, 1795. Laurie & Whittle, p. 212. Treading in a beautrap, etc. Signed Cruikshanks. Tegg no. 264. p. 211. Tristram Shandy's father crossing the street. Feb. 14, 1804. p. 214. Unfortunate Miss Bailey. Feb. 12, 1804. p. 214. Valentime. (Reid 190. A young couple being wed by Cupid, also four lines of verse. "The groom is said to be the portrait of the artist." Reid gives no date and names no artist.) p. 217. Waltzing. Unsigned. Tegg, no. 189. p. 211. Watchful farmer (The). June 4, 1804. p. 214. Way of the world (The). July 25, 1804. p. 215. Weeping over the tomb of Abercromby. July 13, 1801. Laurie 8c Whittle, p. 214. Wet parsons (The) and dry quaker. Jan. 12, 1805. p. 214, 215. Whipping tops and bottoms. March 1, 1804. p. 214. Wicked little boy (A) and cross granny. Jan. 16, 1804. p. 214. Wig (The), the hat and the cane. Nov. 20, 1804. Laurie & Whittle, p. 215. Wig (The) and the wags. June 24, 1801. p. 213. Wounded buck (The). May 20, 1800. Laurie & Whittle, p. 213.

Group 3. Doubtful Ansells. 115. Ceceders, in limbo-IE Vagabonds made usefull. 1798. Fores [PAnsell] BM 9267. 116-119. Cockney sportsmen. 4 engravings. Date of all four: Dec. 28, 1800. Fores. [PAnsell] Finding. Pt. 1. Morning (Hunting a hare). BM 9600. Charging. Pt. 2. Noon (Mistaking a rooster for a pheasant). BM 9601. Spying Game. Pt. 3. Evening (Drunk and shooting wildly). BM 9602. Cockneys contemplating on the Exploits of the Day. Pt. 4. Night (Three men drinking wine at a table, examining the meager "bag"). BM 9603. 120. Conciliation. Nov. 12, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9265. 121. Danger over (The) or Billy's return to John Bull. June 4, 1798. Fores. [?Ansell] BM 9225. (Pitt says the duel is over.) 122. Dilemma (A) or the German-Macheath. Dec. 27, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9285. (Francis II and Pitt.) 123. Diplomatic squad or harmony interrupted. Augt. 21, 1797. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9031. (Malmesbury.) 124. Eccentricities, monstrosities, or bell's and beau's of 1799. July 1st 1799. Fores [PAnsell] BM 9455. 125. Ecclesiastical scrutiny or the Durham inquest on duty. Mar. 19, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9299. (Bishops go over women's costumes.) 126. Fox that lost his tail (The). May 25, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9215. (Foxes with human heads.) 127. Ghost (The). 1799. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9385. 172

128-131. H u n t i n g Prints. Four: BM 9592, 9593, 9594, 9595. (Dates of all, May 20th, 1800.) [?Ansell] Caric. 8, 110-113. (Copied from Gillray's four with same titles, dated April 8th, 1800.) F i n d i n g (A parson falls off, h o u n d s find his l u n c h ) . T h r o w i n g off (All caused by the leading horse s t u m b l i n g ) . I n full cry ( T h e parson rides over the h o u n d s . I n at the D e a t h ( T h e parson is t h r o w n head first i n t o a p o n d ) . 131a. Imperial B o n n e b o u c h e (An) or . . . Tilsit. A t t r i b u t e d to Ansell t h o u g h Broadley (2, 317) says that the style is that of George Cruikshank. 132. Irish h u g (An) alias a f r a t e r n a l embrace. Octr. 4 th, 1798. [?Ansell] B M 9249. (Fox a n d O'Connor.) 133. It is not all gold that glitters. O r volunteers settling about pedigree a n d precedence. Octr. 1,1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9247. (Satire on Volunteers.) See Broadley, 2, 35. 134. J o h n Bull taking a lunch, or J o h n n y ' s purveyors p a m p e r i n g his a p p e t i t e w i t h dainties f r o m all over the world. Novr. 1st. 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9259. (An i m i t a t i o n of Gillray's cartoon, B M 9257.) 135. Messenger f r o m the Nile ( A ) . Agreeable news for the Directory—or—the r u n a w a y admirals, unexpected arrival. Octr. 8th 1798. Fores [PAnsell] BM 9252. ( T h e terrified Villeneuve before the Directory.) 136. Military P o r t r a i t s - o r a brrace (sic) of heroes. July 30th 1798. Fores [PAnsell] BM 9239. ( T h e Duchess of York a n d Volunteers.) 137. M u t u a l confidence in the Year 1799. April 1, 1799. Fores. [PAnsell] B M 9367. ( T w o citizens q u a r r e l over the income tax.) 138. Pizzaro a new play or the Drury Lane masquerade. June 11, 1799. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9402. (Sheridan as Prince, a n d the King a n d Queen.) 139. Property protected. A la fran^oise. June 1,1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9224. (American r o b b e d by the French.) 140. Resignation ( T h e ) . Feby 23d. 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9175. (Duke of N o r f o l k dismissed.) 141. Rival Accoucheurs . . . July 01th (i.e., 10th). Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9544. A f o o t n o t e says that Broadley ascribes this to Isaac, b u t I cannot find the reference in Broadley. 142. Sedition h u n t e r disappointed (The) o r — D — G by Winchester Measure. April 2, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9192. (An action for assault.) 143. T e a r s of sensibility—sympathy a poem—Let's all be u n h a p p y together, i.e. the W h i g C l u b in distress, &c, &c. June 11, 1798. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9227. (Fox tells of Fitzgerald's plight.) 144. T h a t was a monstrous droll story, now wasn't it. Dec. 18, 1810. H o l l a n d . [PWilliams.] BM 11655. (A woman laughing. Cp. BM 11656: IC sculp.) 145. Virgin shape warehouse ( T h e ) . July 22, 1799. Fores. [PAnsell] B M 9456. (Females inspected by Dr. Trussup.) 146. Vision of the three cats ( T h e ) . A Fable. Decbr 8th 1800. Fores, [PAnsell] B M 9551. (Against the King being led by his Ministers.) 147. Week's amusement for J o h n Bull ( A ) . March 27th, 1799. Fores. [PAnsell] BM 9366. ( H e prefers bets on the horses to Pitt's bill of fare.)

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References THIS L I S T , ARRANGED A L P H A B E T I C A L L Y BY AUTHORS, CONTAINS T H E M O R E IMPORTANT WORKS

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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. London, Chatto & Windus. New Ed. 1888. (454 pp.) Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. 1898-1907. British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Vols. 1-11. 1877-1932. B R O A D L E Y , A. M. Napoleon in Caricature. 2 vols. (391, 441 pp.). N. Y. and London, John Lane. 1911. (Nearly 250 illus.) Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, The. By G. M. Woodward. Oblong folio. 5 vols. London, Tegg, 1924 (1803-1821). C O H N , A L B E R T M. George Cruikshank. A Catalogue Raisonné. London, Office of Bookman's Journal. 1924. (4to. 375 pp.) C O H N , A L B E R T M. Sale Catalogue of Cohn's Collection of Works of Geo. Cruikshank. London, Sotheby. 1920. (151 pp.) Cruikshankian Momus, The 52 Comic Designs to Popular Ballads. By the Three Cruikshanks. London, Nimmo. 1892. (136 pp.) DOUGLAS, C A P T N . R I C H A R D J O H N H . The Works of George Cruikshank. Classified and Arranged with references to Reid's catalogue and their approximate values.1 London. Davy. 1903. 301 pp. EDWARDS, R A L P H . "Isaac Cruikshank," Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, LI I (April 1928), 184-5. G R E G O , J O S E P H . Rowlandson the Caricaturist. A Selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions. 2 vols. London. Chatto and Windus. 1880. J E R R O L D , BLANCHARD. The Life of George Cruikshank, with numerous illustrations. 2 vols. N. Y., Scribner; London, Chatto & Windus. 1882. M A R C H M O N T , FREDERICK. The Three Cruikshanks. A bibliographical catalogue. London, W. T . Spencer. 1897. ASHTON, JOHN.

1 T h e Cruikshank plates, assembled by Captain Douglas in eight beautifully bound volumes, now in the H. E. Widener Memorial Library, give objective support to the 1,890 briefly presented items in Douglas' small volume.

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GEORGE. Social Caricature in the 18th Century. London, Methuen. 1905. (144 pp, 213 plates.) Princeton University Library classified list, pp. 3565-3583 (Meirs P.U.M.C. Collection of Cruikshankiana). R E I D , GEORGE W I L L I A M . A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Reid George Cruikshank. 3 vols., folio. [London], Bell and Daldy. 1871. (Richly illustrated.) ROSENBACH, A. S. W. A Catalogue of the Works Illustrated by George A.S.W.R. Cruikshank and Isaac and Robert Cruikshank in the Library of Harry Elkins Widener. 4to. Philadelphia, privately printed. 1918. (279 pp.) ROTHSCHILD, A. DE. [Cruikshank Collection] 12 vols. A. de R. STEPHENS, F. G. Memoir of George Cruikshank. London, Sampson. Stephens 1891. SINGER, H. W. "Isaac Cruikshank" in Vol. 8 of Thieme-Becker, KunstSinger ler Lexikon, 1913. T H I E M E - B E C K E R . Kunstler Lexikon. Leipzic, E. A . Seeman (New York, T. G. E. Stechen). 1907-1950. W H E E L E R , H. F. B. and BROADLEY, A. M. Napoleon and the Invasion Wheeler of England. The Story of the Great Terror. 2 vols. London, John Lane. 1908 (1907). H.E.W. W I D E N E R , H A R R Y ELKINS (Collection in the Memorial Room, Harvard College Library). Wright Hist. W R I G H T , T H O M A S . History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature of C. and Art. 8vo. London, Virtue Bros. 1865. (494 pp.) Wright Car. W R I G H T , T H O M A S . Caricature History of the Georges. London, Chatto H. the Georges and Windus. New Ed. 1904. (639 pp.)

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Index to Text Aberdeenshire, 15, 16 Ackermann, 20 Advertisements Illustrated, 29 Annual Registers, 16 Arbuthnot, Dr. John, 23 Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room, 21 Bang-up—Random—or Tandem, 20 Beauties of the Modern Poets, 21 Billy's Raree Show or John Bull Enlighten'd, 22 Blackwood's Magazine, 5 Bloomsbury, 16, 19 Bon Ton Royal Jester, 21 Boots and Spurs, 17 Britannia's Visit to the Tower, 21 British Museum, the, 6, 17; Catalogue of, 18, 19-20, 21, 27; Department of Prints and Drawings, 6 Buck of 1781, A, 17 Bull, John, 23 Burke, Edmund, 5 Canning, George, 5 Canongate Parish Register, 15, 16 "Caricature Magazine," 22 Caricaturists, British, 6 Castlereagh, Viscount, 5 Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, 6 Church of Scotland, 18 Cohn, 21 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5 Collections of the Society of Genealogists, 16 Corry, 29 Court Bow to an Absolute Monarch, A, 21 Crookshanks, Andrew, 15, 16 Crown Court, 18

Cruikshank, Elizabeth, 19 Cruikshank, George, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22 Cruikshank, Isaac, 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27 Cruikshank, Isaac, 22 Cruikshank, Mary, 19 Cruikshank, Robert, 18, 19 Cruikshank, family, 16; spelling of name, 15 Culloden, battle of, 19 Daughter under her Father's Suspicion, 21 Davidson, Elizabeth, 15 Dawe, George, 19 Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank, 19 Diderot, Denis, 5 Dinner in a Tavern, A, 16 Distressed and Triumphs of Virtue, The, 19 Eccentric Excursions, 28 Edgeware, 18 Edinburgh, 16, 18; characters of, 18; County of, 16 Edwards, Ralph, 22 Erskine, Thomas, 5 Exact Representation of an Attempt made to Stab his Majesty, An, 29 Extracts of Prosaic, 21

Heads of the Nation, The, 21 Hunters, 15 Jerrold, Blanchard, 15, 16, 19, 21 Johnson, Samuel, 20 Kean, Edmund, 21 Laurie and Whittle, 20 Leith, 15, 16; Custom House, 15 Let us be unhappy together, 29 Lev in a Stone Coffin, 15 Life, 29 London, 15, 18 Long String of Resolutions for a New Year, A, 29 Louis XVI, 21 Macauley, Thomas, 6 Mackie, Dr. Charles, 18 Marylebone, 16 McNaughton, Mary, 18 Meirs, collection of Cruikshankiana, 17-18 Memoir of George Cruikshank, 18 Miller, 20 Mongan, Elizabeth, 17 Napoleon, 6, 22, 29 Nicholson, Mrs., 29

Flight across the Herring Pool, A, 22 Folkestone Strawberries, 21 Fores, 17, 20 Fox, Charles James, 5, 6 French Revolution, the, 5

Paget, John, 5, 6 Paine, Thomas, 5 Park, Mungo, 19 Peace of Amiens, 23 Pitt, William, 5, 6, 23 Princeton University Library, 18 Principal Probate Registry of London, 16

Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, 16 George III, 6 Gillray, James, 6, 21, 22, 23

Redgrave, Samuel, 16 Reid, G. W., 15, 19 Reign of Terror, 6 Return to Lochlaber, The, 19

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Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 20 Richardson, Sir B. W., Collection of, 17 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 5 Rowlandson, Thomas, 6, 21, 22 Royal Academy, T h e . 19, 20 Royal Extinguisher, The, 21 Royal Society, T h e , 5 Salisbury, 19 Scotch Breeze, A, 18 Scotch Cottage at Glenburnia, The, 21 Scotch Eloquence or the Determination of a Loyal Kingdom, 18 Scotch Washing, 21, 29 Scots Magazine, 16 Senefelder, 29

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 5 Sir Francis Burdett Taken from his House, 21 Southey, Robert, 5 Spencer, 21 Sportsmen's Departure, The, 2 8 29 Sportsmen Resting, The, 29 Stephens, F. G., 18 Swift, Jonathan, 20 Taylor, I., 17 Tegg, 20 Thurlow, Edward, 5 Twelfth Night illustrations, 29 Introduction at St. J**9s's, 15 Visit to the Cottage, A, 19

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