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Reference Library
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Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
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Crowquill, Alfred
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Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
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Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
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Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
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Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
3
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
3
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
2
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
2
Heath, William, 1795–1840
2
Leech, John, 1817–1864
2
Phillips, Watts, 1825–1874
2
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
2
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
2
Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
2
Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
2
A.J.K.H.
1
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
1
Barret, J. V.
1
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867
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Books
78
Prints
11
Drawings & Watercolors
4
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Periodicals
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19th century
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20th century
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wove paper
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caricature
21
wood engraving
15
aquatint
13
etching
13
accordion fold format (binding)
9
engraving
8
lithograph
8
ink drawing
6
satire
5
satires (visual works)
5
portrait
3
steel engraving
3
advertisement
2
chromolithograph
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ephemera
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extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
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graphite drawing
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humorous picture
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publisher's advertisement
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Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
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Satire, English.
65
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
46
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
27
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
21
Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
9
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
8
Wit and humor, Pictorial -- Great Britain.
7
Caricatures and cartoons -- Social aspects.
6
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor.
5
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
4
Marriage -- Caricatures and cartoons.
4
Panoramas -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
Wit and humor.
4
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher.
3
Cruikshank, George -- Publisher.
3
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878.
3
Wit and humor, English.
3
Aristocracy (Political science) -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons.
2
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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18th century
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Great Britain
89
London (England)
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Europe
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France
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Alnwick
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Aristrocracy Great Britain
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Biarritz (France)
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Cheshire
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Edinburgh
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England
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Paris (France)
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Pyrenees
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Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
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Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
3
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
2
Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776–1832
2
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
1
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
1
Chaplin, Florence, 1855–1881
1
Coates family
1
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
1
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910
1
Gall, F. J. (Franz Joseph), 1758–1828
1
Gillray, James, 1756–1815
1
Home, John, 1722–1808
1
Hudson, George, 1800–1871
1
Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854–1904
1
Morley, Frances Parker, Countess of, 1781–1857
1
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
1
Richardson, George Fleming, 1796?-1848
1
Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792–1878
1
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
1
Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
1
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Exhibition History
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
7
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
1
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Lamb
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Sloane Griswold, Yale BA 1937
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Robert Love
1
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Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings
[ca. 1815?]
2
Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life
March 1st 1807
3
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872
Contrasts
1832
4
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Miseries of human life
[1808]
5
[Folded sheet of stationery with engraved satirical vignette at top]
Octr 11, [18]51
6
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Scraps collected from all books, at all times, in all places and on all subjects
circa 1841-1872
7
A.J.K.H.
Album of comic sketches
1869-1873
8
Dean & Son
[Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with verse]
[1880?]
9
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Tit-bit's
[1830]
10
Landseer, Thomas, 1795–1880
Monkey-ana, or, Men in miniature
August,1827
11
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
A day's journal of a sponge
1824
12
The book of shadows
[1882]
13
Phillips, Watts, 1825–1874
The model republic, or, Cato Potts in Paris
[1850?]
14
Crowquill, Alfred
The tutor's assistant, or, Comic figures of arithmetic
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
15
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828–1907
A memoir of George Cruikshank
1891
16
George Cruikshank's table-book
MDCCCXLV [1845]
17
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (Great Britain)
The English humourists in art;
1889
18
The royal allied oak and self created mushroom kings
May 29, 1815
19
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Photographic pleasures
1855
20
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
The christening procession of Prince Taffy
1842
21
Arliss's funny library, of wit, satire, and humour
1832
22
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Human passions delineated
1809
23
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867
Shadows
[between 1858 and 1860]
24
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
[Collection of prints]
18--]
25
[Batch of cakes]
1818?]
26
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710–1784
A lecture on heads
1808
27
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
George Cruikshank's omnibus
1842
28
Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Characters
ca. 1800?]
29
Heath, William, 1795–1840
Studies from the stage, or The vicissitudes of life
[1823]
30
Stockdale, John Joseph, 1770–1847
Fashion
1818
31
Leighton, John, 1822–1912
London out of town, or, The adventures of the Browns at the seaside
[1847]
32
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Pleasures of the water cure
1860]
33
Rowbotham, J. B
The comic astronomy, or, Moonshine for sunstruck people
[1850]
34
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Marriage a-la-mode
1859
35
A kettle of fish
[1825]
36
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Phrenological illustrations or, An artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim
1830
37
Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
Portraits of the Spruggins family
MDCCCXXIX [1829]
38
Heath, William, 1795–1840
Lumps of pudding
[15 August 1811]
39
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Caricature history of the Georges, or, Annals of the House of Hanover
1876
40
Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
New readings of old authors
[1830-1835]
41
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are
1825
42
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Illustrations of time
[1827]
43
Phillips, Watts, 1825–1874
A case in bankruptcy
[1850?]
44
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
[Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput]
1810]
45
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Sketchbook, with copies of work by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, and other artists
1840-1841
46
The Royal menagerie
MDCCCXXXI [1831]
47
Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854–1904
The foreign tour of the Misses Brown, Jones, and Robinson
[approximately 1877]
48
Stock, F. R.
My name is Norval
[1853]
49
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson
1854
50
Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
"All the world's a cheese!"
1851
51
Leech, John, 1817–1864
Pictures of life and character
[between 1872 and 1890?]
52
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
My sketch book ... [vol. 1]
[1833-36]
53
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803–1857
Mrs. Caudle in crinoline
1858
54
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
The passions, humourously delineated
[1810]
55
Humorous designs
[1824]
56
Gaspey, Thomas, 1788–1871
Takings, or, The life of a collegian
MDCCCXXI [1821]
57
Lisle, Joe
[The essayists]
[1828-1830]
58
Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804–1872
How he reigned and how he mizzled
1849
59
Crowquill, Alfred
The tutor's assistant, or, Comic figures of arithmetic
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
60
Humorous sea-side sketches
[1860]
61
The Vauxhall papers
1841
62
Mörner, Hjalmar, 1794–1837
Miscellaneous sketches of contrasts
1831
63
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Phrenological illustrations, or, An artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim
1826
64
Life at the seaside
[1879]
65
Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
New readings of old authors
[1841]
66
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Olla Podrida
1827
67
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
The book of etiquette
[ca. 1830]
68
Everitt, Graham
English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century
1893
69
Crowquill, Alfred
Sketches of pumps
1846
70
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are
1825
71
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Airy nothings, or, Scraps and naughts, and odd-cum-shorts
1825
72
Barret, J. V.
Reflections
[1859]
73
Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
City characters
1824
74
Nicholls, Harry, 1852–1926
Drury Lane comic history of England
[1883?]
75
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
The old English 'squire
1821
76
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Scraps and sketches
1828-1832
77
Countryman in London
[ca. 1800?]
78
Leech, John, 1817–1864
Pictures of life and character
1863-1869
79
Crowquill, Alfred
Alfred Crowquill's guide to the watering places
[between 1830 and 1837]
80
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson
1860
81
Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters"
July. 1825
82
Twenty four grotesque views of seaside life
[approximately 1880?]
83
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Nautical dictionary
[1829]
84
Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
Portraits of the Spruggins family
1829
85
Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842
The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion
1823
86
Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
The comic history of the Russian war
[1857]
87
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Illustrations of popular works
[1830]
88
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
£300 a year, or, Single and married life
1859
89
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
George Cruikshank
1840]
90
Grant, Charles Jameson, active 1830–1852
The Victoria gallery of men & their follies
1838
91
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Domestic miseries
[1848]
92
Commonplace book
1871-1887
93
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Cross readings
1826
94
Album of cuttings from illustrated envelopes and letters
1879-1891
95
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
The bachelor's own book
[1844]
96
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Scraps and sketches
[1882?]
97
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Twelfth night characters
1811]
98
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray;
1851
99
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Caricature history of the Georges
[1968]
100
Vanity fair album
1869-19