Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 37
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, etcher.
Published
London : Published, October 18th, 1813, by James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie, no. 53, Fleet Street, [1813].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Numbered "527" within plate at top right.
Illustration printed at the head of 4 stanzas of verse printed in letterpress in in two columns: Sir Buttonhole Snip drives a goose-chase ... On stitching boards he was better bred.
Library's copy mounted on leaf 55 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.
Numbered "527" within plate at top right.
Illustration printed at the head of 4 stanzas of verse printed in letterpress in in two columns: Sir Buttonhole Snip drives a goose-chase ... On stitching boards he was better bred.
Library's copy mounted on leaf 55 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 ; image: 169 x 228 mm; sheet: 278 x 235 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Caricature of a wealthy tailor driving a carriage composed of objects connected in fact or jest with tailoring. His wife sits inside holding a parasol, a grotesque footman stands behind (left). Four geese (right) are harnessed to the carriage, the box-seat is a cabbage. The body of the carriage is in the shape of the upper part of a pair of breeches, the arms being a card of buttons with two cabbages as supporters; 'Cabbage' and open scissors in the place of crest; below the buttons is a flat-iron (goose) flanked by cucumbers. The spokes of the wheels are open scissors, the footman stands on a giant pin-cushion, and the upholstering of the carriage is chequered like a tailor's pattern-card. The tailor is dressed as a fashionable army officer, his cocked hat flies off towards a passing lady followed by a footman. A sign-post points (left) 'To Ruin' and (right) 'To Brentford'. On the extreme right in the background is an old-fashioned inn with a sign: 'Goose [and] Grid[iron]'; the host stands at the door clasping his fat sides in laughter.
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