Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 52
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
London : Pubd. by G Humphrey no. 27 St. James's St., April 13 1821.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Caption text below title: To be sold by Public Auction, by Mr Squib--at Bullock's rooms--Lot 1. (for Exportation,) Xantippe, a Brazen Statue, supported by a Prime Block of soft Alder Wood ...
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark mounted on leaf 52 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.
Caption text below title: To be sold by Public Auction, by Mr Squib--at Bullock's rooms--Lot 1. (for Exportation,) Xantippe, a Brazen Statue, supported by a Prime Block of soft Alder Wood ...
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark mounted on leaf 52 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 print : etching ; sheet: 281 x 206 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Caricature shows a spectacled auctioneer (George James Squibb) standing full-face in his rostrum with hammer raised, pointing downwards at a misshapen figure of Queen Caroline in quasi-classical draperies, her arms akimbo, and displaying an ungainly leg. She stands on a wooden head of Alderman Wood, both being directed slightly to the left. Her sandalled feet rest on two curving supports of the head, which resemble the drooping peaks of a fool's cap. Near it lies a bundle of bulky papers, 'Defence of Innocence', labelled 'Lot 2 Waste Paper'. These two lots are on a table forming the base of the design below the rostrum. Behind the auctioneer less conspicuous lots are ranged on shelves: more bulky bundles inscribed 'Waste Paper Lot 3--Times'. A box of bonnets rouges with tricolour cockades inscribed 'To be Sold by Private Contract', with other chests of caps and of daggers, both inscribed 'Private'. A jar is 'Lot 5 Unsunned Snow'
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