Iack Junk embarking on a cruize!! [graphic] / Cruikhank [sic] del.

[London] : Pub. by T. Tegg, Cheapside, [1807]

1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 25.6 x 42 cm

wove paper

Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.

"A sailor with a long pigtail, holding a cudgel, clumsily mounts a horse on the off side, putting his left. foot in the stirrup. An ostler with a broom, standing by the open stable-door, laughs at him, saying, "Jack you dont mount the Horse the right way - but it is sailor like to look one way and row another." Jack scowls over his left. shoulder to answer: "I dont mount this here horse the right way!! you lubberly swab you dont know the way I'm a going." A hunch-backed little stable-boy, wearing top-boots far too large for him, holds the horse's head, grinning delightedly. There is a landscape background with a distant village (left). A signpost points 'To Leather-head'."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

July 06, 2016

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10898