Irish volunteers advancing at the seige of Dublin [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [not before 1807]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.6 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Probably a later reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. August 1803 by Piercy Roberts. See British Museum catalogue.
Beginning of publisher's statement, including date, has been burnished from plate. A publication date of 1807 is suggested in the British Museum catalogue for an earlier reissue numbered "K 2" and having the more complete imprint "London, Pubd. Jany. 1, [1807], by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapsid [sic]." Cf. No. 10081 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Plate numbered "288" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.
Cf. Krumbhaar, E.B. Isaac Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonneĢ, no. 541. - Abstract:
- "Irishmen in volunteer uniform are mounted on galloping bulls; each faces the animal's tail. They hold shillelaghs, wear pouches inscribed 'Potatoes', and fling potatoes towards a small band of ragged sansculottes (right) from whom they are galloping away. These Frenchmen advance, firing muskets; the most prominent fires a cannon. The foremost volunteer, that is, the farthest from the enemy, shouts: "Stop! Stop! ye Scoundrils we shall Soon be after coming up wit ye." The second: "By Jasus if we follow them up at this rate we shall soon see the Tieves out of sight." The third: "Hubbubboo! how the Rogues run their's no overtaking them." The bulls are making for a chasm (left) into which one in the middle distance leaps. In the background are some who have reached comparative safety, but continue to hurl potatoes."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
- Variant Titles:
- Irish volunteers advancing at the siege of Dublin
- Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 75
W87
807 v.4
Folio 75 W87 807 v.4 - Orbis Record:
- 12895598
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr10807
- OID:
- 16192423
- PID:
- digcoll:4046298
