NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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21. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) after Captain Frederick Marryat The Cholic |
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The Cholic
Etching with hand coloring, 1819, British Museum Satires 13438, 208 x 258 mm. Fine impression of the second edition, as published by Thomas McLean in 1835 (the old publishing date and address are still just visible), on stiff, wove paper with good margins. The coloring is a bit more restrained than that usually found on the first edition. As a sort of later companion piece to Gillray’s famous The Gout of 1799, Cruikshank’s The Cholic (Colic) documents one of the minor medical miseries of British life, as usual putting the blame on obscene little critters rather than on anything one ate or a malfunction of the digestive system. Although spoken of these days principally as an infant affliction, colic in adults is still around. Its precise cause is probably no better known today than it was in 1819, for really diagnosable cases are called something else: kidney stones, appendicitis, etc. The pain, though, is real. The Captain Marryat credited with the design here is apparently the very same Royal Navy officer and novelist who wrote some of the first sea stories, including Mr. Midshipman Easy. Obviously, a multi-talented man.
