print;
satirical print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3024.1
- Title
- Object: Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. By George Cruikshank
- Description
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Vignette (repeated from buff paper cover) on title-page to six plates. The heads of three laughing and partially bald men, showing the front, 1. and r. of the scalp divided into sections marked with figures from I to XXXIII on the principle of G. and S.: 'Propensities' I-IX, Sentiments X-XVIII, 'Knowing Faculties' XIX-XXIX, Reflective Faculties XXX-XXXIII. These are listed on an introductory leaf (2 pp.) with the addition of the unnumbered 'Organ of Drawing' (see No. 15194), each having a reference to the plate where it is depicted. 1826
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 335 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 455 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Title-page to a series of six plates, all printed on chine collé, with buff paper cover (printed as in this sheet, but with prices instead of publication date) and additional letterpress sheet.
(Description and following comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
The publication was extremely popular and a topic of C. North's 'Noctes Ambrosiana;' in Blackwood's Magazine, Nov. 1826. The price [on cover] was '8s. plain, 12s. Coloured, or large paper India Proofs 20s.' There are sets of each in the Print Room. The plates are Nos. 15192-7 (Reid, Nos. 1348-53). Each has a central vignette, described first, with its title as the caption of the plate (which is actually without a comprehensive title), and is surrounded by four or more smaller vignettes. All have the same imprint as No. 15192. For phrenology see No. 12839 and index.
For a pencil sketch, reversed, on page with a whole-length reclining portrait, see 1891,1117.159 (Binyon, i. 289. Pressmark 199.c.2/159). A pencil study is on the reverse of No. 15195.A.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3024.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179
