Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 40
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
London : Pubd Jany 3d 1826 by S Knights Sweetings Alley Roy X'Change, [1826].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss of caption text, and mounted on leaf 40 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Library's copy closely trimmed with loss of caption text, and mounted on leaf 40 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Description
1 prints : etching ; sheet: 192 x 245 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows fourteen small children amusing themselves uproariously in a small space. Four little girls in party-dresses, dance holding hands round a lady who tosses an infant as a fat and grinning cook stands in the doorway with a tray of jelly-glasses, cake, and fruit. The biggest boy rides a rocking-horse, giving a view-hallo; another boy with an overturned chair for horses, drives in a professional manner a high-slung rectangular cradle (left) in which sits a little girl holding a doll and an open umbrella. A little boy with a wooden sword tries to storm a table, defended by two others, with drum, trumpet, and Union Jack. These children are dressed up to suit their parts. In the foreground two children build a card-house on the floor, with skipping-rope, toy soldiers, and horse and cart beside them. On the left are a top and whip, and an Eaton Latin Grammar. On the wall is pinned a caricature of Dr Syntax with birch-rod and book.
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