Accession number
PML 144634, fol. 34v-35r
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
London : Pubd by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1826 [i.e. 1835?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Pt. 7."
A reissue of a print originally published by G. Humphrey, Feb. 10, 1825, and included in Thomas McLean's edition of restrikes of Cruikshank etchings, issued in 1835 with the title: "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...".
McLean's imprint, which reads "Aug 1st, 1835" in other recorded copies of his reissue of Cruikshank's etching, shows visible evidence of having been altered here to read "1826", probably sometime after printing.
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark.
A reissue of a print originally published by G. Humphrey, Feb. 10, 1825, and included in Thomas McLean's edition of restrikes of Cruikshank etchings, issued in 1835 with the title: "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...".
McLean's imprint, which reads "Aug 1st, 1835" in other recorded copies of his reissue of Cruikshank's etching, shows visible evidence of having been altered here to read "1826", probably sometime after printing.
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching, hand colored ; image: 221 x 372 mm; sheet: 245 x 384 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a park promenade, with wind-swept fashionables. In the foreground (left) are three tiny children, almost hidden by their huge wide-brimmed straw hats, below which ankle-length drawers are seen. With them is a wasp-waisted lady also in a big flat hat, and with inflated sleeves connected by a tiny corsage. A soldier wearing a flat cap looks down on the roof of hats with astonishment. A dandy with can stands arm-in-arm with a tall man draped in high-collared and tasselled cape reaching to the ground. They meet and address two ladies. A grotesquely obese woman frowns at a passer-by. The new developments in costume emphasized here are trousers pinched at the knee, and inflated above and below it, and for women large flat hats with flexible brims, much-defined breasts, and draped shoulder-capes tied at the back, with a general impression of swirling draperies.
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