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A Select Collection of Caricatures / Collected & Arranged by Thomas McLean. Vol. I

Title: A Select Collection of Caricatures / Collected & Arranged by Thomas McLean. Vol. I [graphic].
Author: McLean, T. (Thomas).
Publication: 1818-1830.

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1 v.(357 prints); 62 x 46 cm.

Summary

Social caricatures, chiefly from the reign of George IV, including saires of accidents, eating & drinking, fashion, marriage, music, poverty, transportation and weather. Many are pictorial plays on words. Includes the series Lisle's Play Upon Words, Living Made Easy, March of Intellect and McLean's Scraps for Albums. Many were published by Thomas McLean or are reprints by McLean of caricatures published earlier by other publishers.

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Genre/Form

Caricatures – Great Britain – 1800-1899.
Puns – Great Britain – 1800-1899.
Prints – Great Britain – 1800-1899.

Note

Printmakers include George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, George Hunt, Henry Heath, William Heath, Theodore Lane, H. Pyall and R. Seymour.
Title from first page of album.

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Caricature Collection.

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Forms part of Caricature Collection.

Contents

1. Reflections on Matrimony. The Honey Moon, and Afterwards / Drawn and Engraved by Theodore Lane -- 2. Monstrosities of 1783 & 1823 / G. Cruikshank fect -- 2. Monstrosities of 1827 / Robert Cruikshank delt. et fecit -- 2. Juvenile Monstrosities / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 2. Le Retour de Paris or, the Neice [sic] Presented to her Relatives by her French Governess / Etched by G.Ck. -- 3. Home from School or the commencement of the Holidays / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 3. A Compliment / W.H. scul. -- 3. Black Monday or The End of the Holidays / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 3. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Elegant Extracts -- 3. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Coming off with a claw (éclat) -- 3. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Muggy Weather.
3. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Chaste Character (Chased) -- 4. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Rain Bow (Beau) -- 4. Lisle's Play Upon Words - My Hog & I (Mahogany) -- 4. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Coal Meter (A Coal Meet Her)
4. "At Home" in the Nursery, or The Masters & Misses Twoshoes Christmas Party / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 4. Tragic Recitation or working infernally on the feelings -- 4. Breaking Up / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 5. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Pioneer (A Pie-on-here) -- 5. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Man Milling her (Milliner) -- 5. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Common Sewer (Sower) -- 5. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Stable Character -- 5. Dover Coach - 5 O'clock Morning / Etched by G. Cruikshank -- 5. Sky larking among the Devils -- 5. The Cholic / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 6. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Misadvised (Miss-advised) -- 6. Lisle's Play Upon Words - An Ad-mired Character -- 6. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Grenadier (Granny-dear) -- 6. Lisle's Play Upon Words - The Infant in Arms -- 6. Indigestion / Etch'd by G.Ck. -- 6. Monstrous good dinner -- 6. Jealousy / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 7. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Mistaken (Miss-taken) -- 7. Lisle's Play Upon Words - An Armless (Harmless) Character -- 7. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Taking a Galloway (Girl away) 7. Country Christening -- 7. Connoisseur's sitting in judgement -- 7. The Sunday before Confirmation -- 8. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Plaister -- 8. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Lath -- 8. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Jewel (A Jew-Ill) -- 8. Lisle's Play Upon Words - (History) His-story -- 8. A Country Wedding -- 8. Celestial Harmony by a Seraphic Band -- 8. A Country Burial.
9. Raff Peckish, the Radical! Alderman Callipash the Loyalist! / W.H. fecit -- 9. Flat and Sharp / Engd by F.C. Hunt -- 9. Jew-venal / W.H. fect. -- 9. A Missionary Society Meeting -- 9. Popping the Question to a Devilish fine creature -- 9. A Coroner's Inquest -- 10. Innocent Amusements - Coo' Biddy Coo' Biddy! Cock a doodle Doo!! -- 10. Innocent Amusements - Fiddle de Diddle dy Fiddle de dee -- 10. Innocent Amusements - I'm sure Captain Hopkins I feel highly flattered by your offer! -- 10. Pleasing Pastime, or a Christmas Quadrille Party -- 10. Breathing a Vein -- 10. Practice / Drawn and Etched by H. Heath -- 11. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Mut(e)ual Civility -- 11. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Cutlass (Cut-lass) -- Lisle's Play Upon Words - An Action off Spit-head -- 11. The Single and Married / Hy. Alken Delt. -- 12. Lisle's Play Upon Words - An Officious Character (O-Fish's) -- 12. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Sootable (Suitable) Characters -- 12. Lisle's Play Upon Words - May we meet more numerous & never less respectable -- 12. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Dutch Place (Plaice) -- 12. A Scanty Wardrobe -- 12. Monstrous dismal Story -- 12. The French Artist -- 13. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A very amusing Company (Harm-using) -- 13. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Moore's (Blackamoors) Loves of the Angels -- 13. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Canon Law (Cannon) -- 13. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Charger -- 13. High Life Below Stairs / Robert Cruikshank fecit.
13. A scene in May's Buildings -- 13. Blind Man's Buff / Robert Cruikshank fecit -- 14. Lisle's Play Upon Words - The Dreadnought taking a Smack -- 14. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Diving Belle -- 14. Lisle's Play Upon Words - A Stage Manager -- 14. Lisle's Play Upon Words - Metaphysics (Met-he-Physics?) -- 14. A Upset - Blowing from the East -- 14. The Dancing Lesson Pt. 4 / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 14. An Upset - Blowing from the West -- 15. Passing a Mud Cart / Richard Dighton invt. et sculp. -- 15. A Heavy Fall of Snow / Richard Dighton invt. et sclp. -- 15. Characteristics, or England, Ireland, and Scotland / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 15. Five Shillings -- 15. Spreading / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 16. One of the Advantages of Oil Over Gas / Richard Dighton invt. et Sculp. -- 16. A Pleasant Way to Lose an Eye / Richard Dighton invt. et sculp. -- 16. Vampires approaching their Victim -- 16. Courtship / W. Day lithog. -- 16. Street Breakfast / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 17. One of the Advantages of Gas over Oil / Richad. Dighton invt. et Sculp. -- 17. An Unlucky Hit / Richard Dighton invt. et sculp. -- 17. Lodgings to Let / G. Hunt sc. -- 17. Pedestrianism or Foote Travelling / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 17. Tort & Retort, or More Shots Than One / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 18. Crowding to the Pit / T. Lane delt. -- 18. Contending for a Seat / T. Lane delt. -- 18. Dove-tailing / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 18. Manoeuvring / Engd. by Geo. Hunt.
18. Picking a Drum-Stick / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- Snug in the Gallery -- 19. Taken Places Occupied -- 19. Every One to His Taste / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 19. Measure for Measure / Engd. by geo. Hunt -- 19. The Wrong Box / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 20. Feasting in the Saloon -- 20. Turning Out half satisfied / T. Lane -- 20. The Choice / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 20. Fishing - with its consequences / G. Hunt sc. -- 20. Tipple versus O'Gripes / Engd. F.C. Hunt -- 21. A Charley making a Discovery / T. Lane -- 21. Silencing a Charley / T. Lane -- 21. Adversity -- 21. Life in Philadelphia / Engd. by Chas. Hunt -- 21. Castle Builders -- 22. The Night Mare -- 23. Ann Chovy & Sally Forth -- 22. The Midnight Hour -- 22. Preference / W. Heath Del. et Sculpt. -- 22. Necessity / W. Heath Del. et Sculpt. --23. Despair / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 23. An Embarrassing Visit / Clark & Co. Litho. -- 23. Omni-buses -- 23. Soft Nonsense, or conjugating the verb Amo / Dean & Munday Lithog. -- A Little Rheum-Atick / [W. Heath] -- 24. Pity / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 24. Sketch for an Al-bum / Etched by G.Ck. -- 24. For Pity's Sake bestow a few scraps... -- 24. Anger / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 24. Can't You be Quiet? / H. Heath fect. -- 25. Nectar & Ambrosia -- 25. Novels, Romances, Tales, &c. -- 25. Things as they were 1757 Things as thy [sic] are 1827 / W.H. -- 25. A Mid on Half Pay, Tower Hill -- 26. A Lively Idea / Etched by T. Jones -- 26. From the West Indies / etched by G.C.
26. a Grave Idea / Etched by T. Jones -- 26. The Soliloquy A Parody on I've been Roaming / H. Heath Del. -- 27. [One-man band] / Engd by G.H[unt] -- 27. Jealousy / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 27. Ebony & Ivory, or Chacun a son gout -- 27. Travelling in the Lowlands -- 27. Hope / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 27. Travelling in the Highlands -- 28. Pot Pourri -- 28. Whiting / H. Pyall sc. -- 28. Contentment -- 28. Presenting a Dropt Garter. Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense / Richard Dighton Invt. et Sculpt. -- 28. My Charming Girl, my friend & Pitcher -- 28. An Ancient & Modern Apostle -- 29. Fear / Engd. by G.H[unt] -- 29. Revenge / Engd. by G.H[unt] -- 29. Melancholy / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 29. Fashionable Absence or Elegant Simplicity -- 29. The London Sparks / [Geo. Hunt?] / 30. Marina -- 30. Bottling Off the Ganges -- 30. A Brown Study or Wool Gathering -- 30. An Irresistable Arming for Conquest / Dean & Munday Lithog. -- 30. Champaign Driving Away Real Pain / Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 31. The Heartburn; or Rose & Sweet William -- 31. An Inference -- 31. Vanity -- 31. Geography, or the Use of the Globes - A Practical Lesson Shewing the Face of the Earth / W. Heath Del et Sculpt. -- 31. My Aunt!! -- 32. The Feeling Heart / G.H[unt] -- 32. A Morning Call -- 32. Killing No Murder / G. Hunt sculp. 32. Reminiscences --32. A Literary Lady of 1829 displaying her Allbum / C.E.M. -- 33. Military Anecdotes!!
33. White-bait / H. Pyall sc. -- 33. Sturgeon / H. Pyall sc. -- 33. Two Up - Not able to enter / T.J. fect. -- 33. A Chancery Suit!!! -- 34. Compound Division -- 34. Char / H. Pyall [sc] -- 34. The Multiplication TAble / William Heath Del et sculpt. -- 34. As Hot as the Deuce! / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 34. March or It's an Ill Wind that Blows Nobody Good -- 35. [Untitled] -- 35. [Untitled] -- 35. Little Cupid's a Mischievous Boy / W. Heath -- 35. Drill -- 35. Making a Retreat -- 36. Calves' Heads and Brains or a Phrenological Lecture -- 36. The Choice of a Wife / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 36. The Choice of a Husband / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 37. An Interesting Scene on Board an East-Indiaman, showing the Effects of a heavy Lurch, after dinner / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 37. A Most Delicious Ice / Engd. by H. Pyall -- 37. Mucky Weather -- 38. Dust O / W.H. Del. -- 38. This Sir, is my Husband -- 38. This Sir, Is My Wife -- 39. My Husband -- 39. My Wife -- 39. Ton / Seymour Del. Shortshanks Sculpt. -- 40. A Spanking Dog Day - & Real Melter in the Country / G.H. sc. -- 40. A Glorious Day! / Engd. by C. Hunt -- 40. Beauties of Brighton / Etched by G. Cruikshank -- 41. The March of Intellect -- 41. Signs of the Zodiac -- 41. A Fair Party in Foul Weather -- 42. Ardent Spirits / T.H. Jones fect. -- 42. In Town in September or The Last of the Goths! / Engd. by F.C. Hunt -- 42. Private Practice, or A Solo at Home / H. Pyall sc.
43. Comic Composites for the Scrap-Book -- 43. Honey Moon -- 43. How ar'ye off for Fish / Engraved by Geo. Hunt -- 44. Symptoms of Dissipation or Morning Noon Night / (Paul Pry) -- 44. Going Out to Dinner, Rather Late Than Otherwise / H. Pyall sc. -- 44. Eccentrics (Moths - Great and Small) / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 45. The Four Prices -- 45. The Saints or Patrick George Andrew and David! / Engraved by Theodore Lane -- 45. The Prices. Full Price - Half Price - High Price & Low Price / G. Hunt sc. -- 46. The March of Intellect / (Paul Pry) Esq. Del et Scult -- 46. A fare / H. Pyall Sculpt. -- 46. Two O'Clock in the Morning / H. Pyall sculpt. -- 46. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Worse than a Beast.... /W. Heath Del et Sculp -- 47. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Hot - Cold... / W. Heath Del et Sculp. -- 48. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Oh most wicked speed... / Theodore Lane Del. -- 48. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Patience on a monument... / Theodore Lane Delt. -- 78. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Gentlemen of England now a bed... / [Theodore] Lane Delt. -- 48. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Why you old Cat!... -- 49. A Quiet Doze after Dinner / H. Pyall sc. -- 49. Mr. Liston in the Characters of Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy... -- 49. McLean's Scraps for Albums - Poor Lord, it's I... -- 50. March of Intellect / (Paul Pry) Esq. Del. -- 50. Mis-Proportion -- 50. Mis-Understanding -- 51. Mis-Match -- 52. Mis-Application.
52. The March of Bonnetism / (Paul Pry) Esq. del et scul -- 52. Mistake -- 52. Mis-Represent -- 53. A Party of Pleasure / Etched by G. Cruikk. -- 53. PicNic party disturbed by a Swarm of Bees -- 54. The Pink of Politeness and A Prim Rose -- 54. A Dandy fainting or - An Exquisite in Fits / I.R. Cruikshank inv. & fecit -- 55. The Advantages of Travel; - or "a little Learning is a dangerous thing" - Plate 2 / etched by G. Cruikshank -- 56. The Grand Theatrical Constellation -- 56. Anglo-Gallic Salutations in London or Practice makes perfect / G.Ck. scul. -- 57. Les Savoyards / G. Cruikshank fect. -- 57. Going It! / Etch'd by G.Ck. -- 58. The Four Mr. Prices / G. & EMC Sculp. -- 58. A Lollipop - Ally Champagne - a Bull's Eye - and - a Brandy Ball / G.C. sculp. -- 59. Fine Crusted Port Vin Ordinaire / (Paul Pry) Esq. Delt. -- 59. The Comforts of a Cabriolet! or, The Advantages of Driving Hoodwink'd!! / Etched by G. Cruikshank -- 60. Stops / Etched by G.Ck. -- 60. "It was the first and last time I was ever on a Cayman's back / Robert Cruikshank fecit -- 61. A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in London / G. Hunt [sc] -- 61. The Same to You Sir, & Many of 'Em / G. Hunt [sc] -- 61. A Thoroughbred November & London Particular / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 61. A Soaker or Real Cat & Dog Day / G. Hunt sc. -- 62. A Most Infernal Bad Egg / H. Pyall sc. -- 62. The Morning Star -- 62. An Exquisite Taste, with an Enlarged Understanding / Engd. by G. Hunt.
63. A New Hat / H. Pyall sc. -- 63. A New Cost / H. Pyall sc. -- 63. New Boots / H. Pyall sc. -- 63. New Years Gift -- 64. A Loan -- 64. A Sore Throat / H. Pyall sc. -- 64. As Sour as Verjuice / Engraved by G. Hunt -- 64. A Blunt Razor -- 65. Fruiterer - La Fruitière. Tailor - Le Tailleur -- 65. Blacksmith - Le Forgeron. Joiner - Le Menuisier -- 65. Hatter - Le Chapelier. Cooper - Le Tonnelier -- 65. Florist - La Bouqetière. The Writer - L'Ecrivain -- 65. [Ar]mourer - Le Armurier. Fisherman - Le Pêcheur -- 65. Musician - Le Musicien. Barbear - Le Perruquier -- 66. Easy Way of Getting Through the Dreary Days of December -- 66. Dinner Glass to Make a Lark Look Like a Capon -- 66. Easy Mode of Courtship -- 67. Prescription for Scolding Wives -- 67. Glass Covers for Noisy Children -- 67. Charity Tubes, to convey the Smell from the Tables of the Rich, for the benefit of the Poor Operatives --68. Suelling Apparatus for Gentlemen of weak nerves -- 68. Riding Apparatus for Timid Horsemen -- 68. Revolving Hat -- 69. How to Pose a Proser -- 69. Body Fanner, Nut-Cracker & Wine Helper for the Heats of Summer -- 69. Apparatus to Undress & Cover Up When Sleepy -- 70. The Cut Celestial / Aquatinted by H. Pyall -- 70. The Cut Infernal / Aquatinted by H. [Pyall] -- 70. The Cut Direct! / Aquatinted by [H. Pyall] -- 71. A Trip to Margate / by Paul Pry Esq. -- 71. A Trip to Margate Pt. 2 / By Paul Pry Esqr. -- 72. A Trip to Margate Pt. 3 / By Paul Pray Esqr.
72. A Trip to Margate Pt. 4 / By Paul Pry Esqr. -- 73. A Trip to Margate Pt. 5 / By Paul Pry Esqr. -- 73. A Trip to Margate Pt. 6 / By Paul Pry Esqr. -- 74. The March of Intellect. Fashionable / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 74. The March of Intellect. Mechanical / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 75. The Marach of Intellect. Philosophical / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 75. The March of Intellect. Philanthropical / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 76. The March of Intellect. Professional / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 76. The March of Intellect. Political / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 77. Search after the "Comfortable" Frolic & Fashion Pl. 1 -- 77. Rural Retirement. Pl. 2 / Designed & Etched by R. Seymour -- 78. Arts & Sciences Plate III -- 78. Travelling, Pl. I -- 79. Travelling. Plate V -- 79. Courtship. Plate VI -- 80. The Heiress Plate 1 -- 80. The Heiress Plate 2 -- 81. The Heiress Plate 3 -- 81. The Heiress Plate 4 -- 82. The Heiress Plate 5 -- 82. The Heiress Plate 6 -- 83. Omnibus / R. Seymour Delt. -- 83. Omnibus / R. Seymour Delt. -- 84. Omnibus / R. Seymour Delt. 85. Self -- 86. Nautical Dictionary No. 3 -- 87. Nautical Dictionary No. 4 -- 88. Nautical Dictionary No. 5 -- 88bis. Old Ways, and New Ways -- 89. Scraps No. 2 -- 89. Old Ways, and New Ways No. 3 -- 90. Tregear's Scraps No. 3 Fits -- 90. Tregear's Scraps No. 4 -- 91. Tregear's Scraps No. 5 -- 91. Tregear's Scraps No. 6.
92. A Real Rubber! At Whist / G. Hunt sculpt. -- 92. The Gipseying Party alrm'd at the Uninvited Guest / Etched by G.Ck. -- 93. New Years Morning. The Old One Out and the New One Coming In / Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 93. Sunday Morning / Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane -- 94. The Rival Whiskers / Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 94. Mathew-orama for 1827, being the Home Circuit or Cockney Gleanings / H. Heath fecit -- 95. A Frost / Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 95. A Thaw / Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 96. A Shilling Fare to A Christmas Dinner or Just in Pudding Time / Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engd. by Geo. Hunt -- 96. Girl, Where's your Master!... /Designed & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engrav'd by Geo. Hunt -- 97. A Merry Christmas Day in The Watch House for Milling the Charlies / Deisgned & Engrved by Theodore Lane -- 97. Tim besom / Engd. by G. Hunt -- 98. A Bad Fit -- 98. A Benefit -- 99. Meeting -- 99. Parting -- 100. A Cup of Tea and a Dish of Chat / G. Hunt sculpt. -- 100. Wicked Works! or Blaze in Amaze!! / G Hunt Sculpt. -- 101. Masquerade, Argyll Rooms / Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane, Engraved by Geo. Hunt -- 102. Law Gorging on the spoils of Fools & Rogues & Honest Men... / Designed & Engraved by Theodore Lane.

Call Number

MEZY+ (McLean)

OCLC

NYPG95-F208

Author

McLean, T. (Thomas). Collector

Title

A Select Collection of Caricatures / Collected & Arranged by Thomas McLean. Vol. I [graphic].

Imprint

1818-1830.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexes

Finding aid available.

Linking Entry

Forms part of Caricature Collection.

Provenance

Caricature Collection.

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Added Author

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.

Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.

Heath, William, 1795-1840.

Hunt, George.

Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828.

Pyall, H.

Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.

Research Call Number

MEZY+ (McLean)

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