- Museum number
- 1865,1111.1725-1730
- Description
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Reid 4711. Illustrated book of social satires entitled, 'The Ton: Anecdotes, Chit-Chat, Hints and On Dits;”
Lettered beneath the title:
“Dedicated to all the Gossips. By the Author of The Greeks, the Pigeons, Fashion, Modern Belles, Modern Beaux. To Night, Dress and Address, Life, High and Low, &c . . .”
With quotations from Hudibras and Juvenal below the title and the publisher’s details at the foot of the page:
“London: Printed for J. J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall Mall. 1819.”
1. BM Satires 13477, Reid 833. Frontispiece; text on p. 50. "English impudence."
A young Irishman in regimentals, wearing a gorget, stands in front of the Duke of York, who is seated by a writing-table, and addressing him with assurance. In later editions 'English' is altered to 'Irish'.
2. BM Satires 13478. Reid 830. "Lady Lucinda Languish."
P. 11. A lady, very décolletée, sits beside a tea-table, on which she turns her back, eagerly reading a paper, 'St James Chron . . .', for news of a divorce.
3. BM Satires 13479. Reid 831. "Old hag."
P. 15. An aged courtesan stands on a street pavement, grimacing and beckoning.
4. BM Satires 13480. Reid 832. "Greek. Pigeon."
P. 47. One fashionably dressed lady (left) inspects another through a lorgnette. Such ladies are now so styled from their transparent drapery, &c., and 'ample "plumage" and panting bosom'. For the titles see Nos. 12959, 12965.
5. BM Satires 13481. Reid 834. "Perfect gentleman."
P. 111. A high-collared, high-shouldered, high-waisted dandy (cf. No. 13029), with long tight pantaloons moulding (padded) thighs and calves, stands affectedly, holding a two-peaked opera-hat.
6. The handy dandy. BM Satires 13482. Reid 835. P. 163. Scene in the justice room, Mansion House, 8 Sept. 1818. The Lord Mayor (Wood), as magistrate, faces a monkey which postures on his table. His clerks sit beside him. Three men watch. He decides a dispute over the ownership of the monkey. See BM Satires No. 13358.
1819
Hand-coloured etched illustrations to a letterpress book
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 110 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
According to AM Cohn, "George Cruikshank a catalogue raisonné." G. Cruikshank repudiated these plates to Mr. Truman, but accepted them in other copies.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The ton: anecdotes, chit-chat, hints and on dits
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,1111.1725-1730