Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Date: 1851

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-021-047-a

Description: Cruikshank's burlesque cartoon is in response to the exodus of women who took up offers of assisted passage to Australia and in so doing created a critical shortage of men in England. His dockside scene depicts a crowd of pallid & astonded-looking Englishmen who have come to greet the arrival of a ship load of smiling dark-skinned women who have responded to the call for female emigration. Throughout the first decades of settlement men outnumbered women to an extraordinary degree resulting in grave social problems. Active attempts to address the imbalance included immigration drives for women in Britain. Issued with Cruikshank's `The Comic Almanac for 1851' The Library holds a hand-coloured version of this etching at B-021-047 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 185 x 440 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-009

Description: The Prince Regent, Looking like Apollo, God of the Sun, with his head on fire, with a man dressed as Mercury attempting to extinguish the fire with water (possibly from a chamber pot). The Prince appears to be screaming and has dropped his lyre and caduceus. His wife is admiring a Grecian-style nude sculpture to the left, while other mythological characters are also shown An obscure allegory. The Belvedere Apollo was in the public eye and there had been reports that it was to be acquired by the regent. The principal figures in this satire are; Lady Hertford; The Regent; John McMahon Castlereagh; Henry Brougham, the most prominent member of the Opposition, champion of the Princess of Wales, and later Lord Chancellor; and, floating in a chamber pot - symbol of Mrs Jordan - The Duke of Clarence. Other Titles - Royalty Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount verso - centre - Descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 219 x 514 mm

Date: 1822

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: A-096-027

Description: Shows a mermaid in a glass case Heavily trimmed Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured 233 x 165 mm Provenance: Unknown

Date: 1811

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-013

Description: Shows men and women fighting each other with a variety of weapons, some on horses and donkeys. In July 1811 an `heroic, tragic, operatic drama' with the same title as the print was played for the first time by the English Opera Company at the Lyceum. A manager informs his creditors that he is unable to pay his debts, since he has not been able to introduce on the small stage of his theatre, the quadrupeds, that are all the rage. He proposes a production `The Tailors, a tragedy for warm weather' adapted to the present taste. In the last scene, here depicted the rival bodies of the London tailors, the Dungs, and the Flints, battle from horses and donkeys created by the machinist. This was a satire on the horses appearing on the stage at Covent Garden and the play `The Tailors' which dealt with the tailors wage disputes and trade clubs. Its performance was sometimes prevented by the tailors, and in 1805 there was an organized riot to prevent it. The `Flints' were those who formed clubs corresponding to trade unions, and the `Dungs' were the blacklegs. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 225 x 410 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-018

Description: A sequence of three designs, each with a caption, illustrating the experiences of a narrator in `Scourge', in a single day. 1. A joint stock company dividing their losses. 2. A bankrupt settleing with his creditors. 3. A legacy forgotten. The Scourge,or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, 1811-1816. Published by F Johnson, and afterwards Jones & Co. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 224 x 500 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-007

Description: Five vignettes reflecting contemporary events in Britain. Top left is `Mr Wright doing wrong' showing a man abandoning a woman and three children to go off with another woman and 2 children. Bottom left, is `Biscuit and gingerbread or the rival bakers' a scene in Shire Lane, possibly about rival newspaper publishers. The central view is a theatrical scene, `A Kean manoeuvre to pay old debts of Drury is it's self again' a reference to actor Edmund Kean and the Drury Lane Theatre; top right is partially titled `The gouty Adonis' and possibly refers to the Prince Regent at the Brighton Pavilion with Mr Punch. Bottom right is Parson B & the Butchers or a probationary sermon at Christ Church, Newgate Street, with a man urging his congregation to rise up, kill and eat. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 216 x 505 mm

Date: 1815 - 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-014

Description: A satire of the Regent's dissipated gifts and the quarrels of his family. John Bull chases off the Prince of Orange and, left, Queen Charlotte tips a teapot into the mouth of a fat German prince. The King of Spain (top left) was reputed to have spent his exile embroidering petticoats for the Virgin Mary. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 497 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-015

Description: The Regent is depicted as an infant, being dandled by Lady Hertford in the `Hertford Nursery'. A comprehensive satire on the phases of the continual crisis which lasted from 12 May to 8 June, the main theme being the political influence of Lady Hertford Isabella, Lady Hertford (1759-1834), nee Isabella Anne Ingram Sheperd Irvine. She was the second wife of the 2nd Marquis of Hertford, and the Prince's mistress from 1807-1819 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 222 x 518 mm

Date: 1829

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Redman, William Edward (Dr), -1940

Reference: A-267-016

Description: Cartoon showing the Duke of Wellington explaining his support of Catholic emancipation in a speech from Coriolanus. The Duke is in the centre of a crowd. He is dressed in the uniform of a Roman soldier (but bare-headed). He is surrounded by Protestants, several of whom are praying while others look astonished or dismayed. The text of a quote from Shakespeare's Coriolanus is in the upper left section of the drawing. The election of Daniel O'Connor for Clare, and the progress of the Catholic Association, convinced Wellington and Peel that emancipation of the Irish Catholics must be granted. This was done in 1829. Wellington here explains his change of point of view in simple but expressive language. This affair led to his duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 295 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-024

Description: Shows the Prince Regent with Lady Hertford at his side surrounded by others. Lord Hertford is offering the Prince a drink. One of the many satires on the Regent's desertion of the Whigs, and the political influence of Lady Hertford. The title is an allusion to the famous letter to the Duke of York, `I have no predilections to indulge, no resentment to gratify...'. Princess Charlotte weeps as she had done at Carlton House on 22 February when the Regent furiously attacked the Whigs and was answered by Lauderdale. Her tears were made memorable by Byron's verses ("weep daughter of a Royal line"). The pick-pocket is Sheridan; and the man with the cuckold's horns, Lord Hertford. Isabella, Lady Hertford (1759-1834), nee Isabella Anne Ingram Sheperd Irvine, was the second wife of the 2nd Marquis of Hertford, and the Prince's mistress from 1807-1819 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 220 x 540 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-029

Description: This plate illustrates a disallusioned summary of the events of 1815. The obese, inert Louis is enthroned on a flimsy platform supported by a thin pole (Bourbon Party) and the heads of four sovereigns, who hold the spoils of war - all but the Regent who has nothing but his bottle. Frederick William scowls `Heigh ho for an Empire! this is not enough for me.' Four soldiers dressed as London watchmen and led by Wellington represent the army of occupation; they will be outwitted by Frenchmen with two profiles, one saying `Vive le Roi' the other `Vive l'Empereur', and each concealing a dagger behind his back, ready for `Bloody Murder' or `Bloody revenge'. Another scene is in Spain where Ferdinand, his pocket stuffed with `Death Warrants', is led by the nose by a fat friar and pushed forward by a demon Jesuit. In the background Vesuvius and Ferdinand IV dispose of Murat, a rat. A pendant to this incident is a colossal Napoleon brooding on St Helena. Source of description - English political caricature. Vol 2 / M Dorothy George, 1959 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 215 x 503 mm

Date: 1811 - 1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-001/045

Description: A range of English satirical cartoons Quantity: 45 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured engravings

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-011

Description: Th Regent and the Dukes of Clarence, York, and Sussex engaged in appropriate recreations. The Regent is attacked for his treatment of his wife; for political subservience to Lady Hertford who is depicted holding a political barometer; for neglect of his old friends, the Opposition; for his addiction to dancing; and finally, his desertion of Mrs Fitzherbert. The Duke of Sussex, a musical enthusiast, is satirized for his devotion to Mrs Billings and his desertion of Lady Augusta Murray whom he had married secretly in 1793. The Duke of York is ridiculed for the scandal of 1809 concerning the sale of army commissions on the recommendation of Mrs Mary Anne Clarke, and for his association with Mrs Carey. The Duke of Clarence is attacked for his desertion of Mrs Jordan, and ridiculed for repeated overtures to her after his rejection by Miss Tylney-Long, a rich young heiress. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Mount verso - centre - Descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 215 x 507 mm (irregular)

Date: 1811

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-012

Description: A satire on the admirers of the heiress Catherine Tylney-Long, whose fortune included Wanstead House, which had cost over £360,000. On the Lady's right are Lord Kilworth and Wellesley-Pole who had fought a duel over her favours. At the foot of her throne kneel Romeo Coates and Sir Lumely Skeffinton, and on her left are the Duke of Clarence and the Baron de Geramb. In 1811 the Duke of Clarence, pressed for money and anxious to marry, parted from Mrs Jordan with whom he had lived for twenty years and made repeated unsuccessful proposals to Miss Tylney-Long. It is Mrs Jordan who empties a chamber pot, or Jordan, over the Duke. The suitor Wellesley Pole was ultimately successful and he became engaged to Miss Tylney Long in November 1811. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x 410 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-027

Description: Depicts a meeting of the Antiquarian Society with Lord Aberdeen, the President, in the chair. The cartoon is an attack on the contents of `Archaeologia' and on the alleged undistinguished pedantry of Nicholas Carlisle, John Carter and Samuel Lyons. The gullible antiquary was subject of ridicule. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 217 x 410 mm

Date: 1816

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-008

Description: Two scenes. On the left `Economy' shows the Prince Regent looking very overweight, leaning back after a large meal with champagne, claiming that he has been pracitising all sorts of economies, while a man waving a broom conjures up an image of the prince drinking water. On the right. `Anticipation' shows a wife sulking over breakfast while her foreign husband questions her. 1. In a speech on 20 March, Brougham described the Regent as one f those, "Who in utter disregard of the feelings of an oppressed and insulted nation, proceeded from one wasteful expenditure to another, who decorated and crowded their houses with the splendid results of their extravagance, [and] who associated with the most profligate of human beings... ". 2. Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at breakfast. The German sausage on the table is a coarse symbol of their marriage. Princess Charlotte was the daughter of the Prince Regent. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 2159 x 502 mm

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-016

Description: The comprehensive scurrility of this satire reflects the spirit of the magazine `Scourge', but not the attitude to the war of the Opposition who maintained that Napolean's intentions were pacific. John Bull, here depicted as a bull crushed by taxes, is sacrificed by Castlereagh and Vansittart to the Bourbon cause. Louis XVIII goes to war in armour and mounted on a mule with the head of Talleyrand. The Regent's reputation suffers the usual bruising. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonberry (1769-1822), known until 1821 as Viscount Castlereagh, an Anglo-Irish politician and Foreign Secretary, 1812-1822. Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766-1851), English pilitician and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1812. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevente (1754-1838), French diplomat, Prime Minister of France in 1815. The Scourge; or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly. Published by F Johnson, and afterwards by Jones & Co, 1811-1816 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 218 x 538 mm

Date: 1812

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-019

Description: Descriptive note - `It is anticipated that when the restrictions on the Regency expire on 5 February, the Prince Regent, ridden by Wellesley, will be released from his ties with the Opposition, which is represented here as bequiling the people with advocacy of Reform, and clamour against corruption in high places. The print implies a certain amount of corruption on the Opposition's own account.' Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 225 x 500 mm

Date: 1900 - 1960

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

By: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Evans, John William, 1855-; Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935; Junge, Carl Stephen, 1880-1934

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-US-R/S

Description: Arranged in boxes alphabetically according to the name of the person for whom the plate was made. Contains plates made for: C S B R (1919. These initials could also concievably be read C S R B or C B S R ) O M R (initial of artist reads "A". Note on back of bookplate reads "Allan Lewis") Dr Samuel Radbill (name of the artist illegible. Pictured are cartoons of a baby boy and baby girl, and a staff entwined by a snake.) Dr Samuel H Radbill (also possibly Dr Samuel X Radbill. Name of the artist illegible. Pictured is a bearded doctor cutting the umbilical cord between a baby and it's mother. Pencilled in the top corner of the bookpage's mounting page are the initials "U R") Dr Samuel X Radbill (name of the artist illegible, possibly U K Florian. Pictured is a man in a robe holding a baby, behind which lies a woman in bed, having apparently just given birth to this baby) Rose Eliza Rales (by A F K, 1904) Marion Ransom (initials of the artist illegible, possibly "A" or "A L". Full text of the bookplate reads "Ex Libris; Marion Ransom; Edith Bridges" and it is unclear whether this is 2 people or whether Edith Bridges could possibly be a place name. It is filed under "Ransom" in keeping with the collector's original system) Benjamin Weiser Reed G F Reinhardt (initials of the artist illegible, possibly L W P or Z W P) Harold Reppert (3 bookplates; 2 are of identical image printed on different papers) Bertha Reynolds (by P K) Robinson (name of owner illegible, possibly Sf. E Robinson or H E Robinson) W F E Roelofson (by A W C, 1901. Includes emblem with the text "Immer Bereit" and a whip and riding spur) Gretta Gordon Brown Rowell (by Gretta B Rowell, 1922. Text reads "Ex Libris; Art Books of Gretia Gordon Brown Rowell". Pictured is a study or studio with a shelf of books, a painting of a child upon an easel, and paint brushes and palette) Mrs N H Reid (by Dreka. Full text reads "Dum Clavum Teneam; Ex Libris; Hannah Penn House; Presented by; Mrs. N. H. Reid") John E Russell (full text reads "John E. Russell. J.E.R. Del; M.T. Callahen, Sculpt". Note from collector attached dates the bookplate at 1890) Mabelle Rutherford Laurence Darby Ryan (by M H N, 1935. Full text reads "From among the Books and Maps of; Laurence Darby Ryan". Featured is a map of Baja Peninsula, Mexico, with placenames in Spanish) George Hope Ryder (full text reads "Ex Libris; New Jersey; New York; George Hope Ryder". Note on the back reads "Wood Eng. by John W Evans USA") William Lewis Sachse (pictures a stately building in front of which are several figures, a horse and rider and a horse and cart) Dean Sage (pictured is a fish, possibly a trout, a fishing rod and a landing net. Note from the collector attached reads "...an enthusiastic fisherman, and the author of a sumptuous volume on salmon-fishing in some of the Canadian Rivers. Mr sage uses this plate only in the books of his library which relate to the gentle art of Walton") Henry Kendall Sanborne (includes an emblem of 2 hands shaking within a black cross) Alfred Santell (full text reads "I am a heritage because I bring you years of thought and the lore of time - I impart yet I can not speak - I have traveled among the peoples of the earth - I am a rover - Oft-times I stray from the fireside of the one who loves and cherishes me - who misses me when I am gone - Should you find me vagrant please send me home - among my brothers - on the bookshelves of...Alfred Santell". Note on back of bookplate reads "Motion Pictures actor") Tyndall Savage (1915) Helen Virginia Sawler (by Junge, possibly Carl S Junge. Pictured is a woman holding an artist's palette and possibly a brush) H Adama van Scheltema (full text reads "Cogito, Ergo Sum; Ex Libris. bookfelloviensis; H. Adama van Scheltema") Ada Laurie Scherling Leonard J Schiff (pictured is a snake entwined around a staff. Behind it is a bookshelf with books bearing the titles "Gynecology", "Surgery", "General Pathology" and "Anatomy") Fred C Schlaich (by H S, possibly Howard Sill, 1891. Full text reads "Fred C Schlaich, Architect") Winfield Scott (note from the collector attached reads "Scott, Winfield [General] Of Virginia; The patriotic motto of the Scots of Whitislaid, Scotland, and well did the character of the man who used the bookplate coincide with its meanin [sic]. Plain armorial; Armore Patriae" [motto in fact reads "Amore Patriae") Lillian E Serbousek (picturing 2 white swans swimming) George Dudley Seymour (by W F Hopson, 1894. Full text reads "No.5; Captain Charles Churchill, hys house at Wethersfield in the colony of Connecticut in Newe England, 1760-1885; Ex Libris George Dudley Seymour; W F Hopson, N.H. 1894") James Porter Shaw Judy Sherman Julia Booth Sherman S L Shey (includes the text "Spring Grove" and a heraldic emblem in a diamond format including a rearing animal and 3 flowers, similar to daisies) Adam Hull Shirk (by P L) Edwin and Lucy Shore (by George Cruikshank. Bookplate illustration is a scene from the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist", where Oliver accompanies 2 young thieves as they pick the pockets of a gentleman examining a book) Milton Henry Shutes M.D. (name of owner also possibly Henry Milton Shutes M.D.) Inez Stanley (possibly by Carl S Junge) Ruth Stark (by M Nelson, 1912) Helen J Stearns (picturing 2 women flanking a statue or mask of a large laughing face, printed on delicate filmy paper) Paula Stellwagon (picturing a lamp and spinning wheel) Constance Stephens J F Stevens Maureen Stewart Thomas Wheeler Stewart (includes the motto "Creag an Scairdh" and features a man wearing a kilt about the waist and shoulders with a girdle, and standing on a 3 tiered plinth) Arthur Robinson Stone (possibly by George M White, 1887. Picturing a book of sheet music, open at a page headed "Messiah au Oratorio; Largo; Part of Second") Ellery Stone (by M N, 1909) Emerson A Stoner Robt S Storey (initials of the artist illegible, possibly H E) J A Svengsbir (initials at base of illustration illegible, possibly C S A or C S R. Includes the motto "Atavis et Armis" and heraldic imagery similar to that of the bookplates of Alan Weaver Hazleton, also included in the Graham collection of American bookplates) George Selwyn Swarth Carolyn Patten Swett (by Timothy Cole) J B Swett (note from the collector attached reads "Sweet, J.B.[sic], John Barnard Sweet of Newbury, Mass; A symbolical [sic] plate, representing the profession of medicine...") Abbie M Sykes (picturing a large and prominent tree, possibly a fir or pine, against a wilderness setting) Quantity: 57 b&w art print(s) on bookplates.. Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Date: 1815

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

Reference: B-021-020

Description: Three drawings depicting Napoleon's flight from Elba to Paris, and from Paris to St Helena. 1. Shows Napoleon flying to Paris on the back of an eagle. A satire on Napoleon's flights from Waterloo, Moscow, and Leipzig. 2. Shows Napoleon on the stern of his ship addressing the Regent who is seated in front of a fireplace. A satire in Napoleon's letter to the Regent of 13 July, in which he alluded to Themistocles taking refuge on the hearth of Ametus, King of the Molossians, taking the latter's infant son in his arms and this establishing an irresistable claim to hospitality. 3. Show Napoleon on St Helena looking gloomly at a wooden rat trap. Comte Henri-Gratien Bertrand and Mme Bertrand are with him. St Helena was notoriously infested with rats. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board recto - beneath image - Typed descriptive note Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 225 x 500 mm