[Liston and the Lambkins, or, The citizen's dinner party] [graphic] / Robt. Cruikshank fecit.

Creator:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.

Edition:

[Proof before aquatint and lettering].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Sherwood, Jones & Co.],
[1826]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 15.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 24.8 x 30 cm

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Notes:

Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
For published state see: No. 15202 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.

Abstract:

A dinner party given by the rich and vulgar 'cit'. Liston, seated full-face, is beset by three children, one of whom shows him a print of Paul Pry. The hostess, laughing, points out the impassive Liston to a little boy who stands beside her. A fat nurse holds up an infant in long clothes to see the celebrity, at whom all the company are staring. A laughing footman drops a glass from a salver. Over the laden table hangs an elaborate cut-glass chandelier with many gas-globes. Liston, incensed at being expected to amuse his host's 'uncultivated cubs', retires, ostensibily to arrange his dress for a performance, actually to depart. See British Museum catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Citizen's dinner party

Topics:

Chandeliers.
Couples.
Dinner parties.
Families.
Servants.

Topics:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--1826.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1826.
Trial proofs.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

75
C9
824
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 11

Orbis Record:

12875650

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr34250

OID:

15959184

PID:

digcoll:2795769