10 results filtered with: Puns (Visual works)
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A fat friar sitting on an open fireplace and frying a drumstick. Etching by Charles West Cope.
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29813i
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A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.Date: 1824Reference: 31590i
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A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 29573i
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Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
S.L., active 1772.Date: [1 Jan. 1772]Reference: 584784i
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A man is drawing a cart along the road as other people perform other activities also called drawing. Etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: August 1st 1826Reference: 36143i
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A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
Date: 1830-1839Reference: 35953i
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A park keeper is complaining to a young woman about "pansies" (homosexuals). Colour process print, 195-, after D. McGill, 193-.
McGill, Donald Fraser Gould, 1875-1962.Date: [ca. 1950?]Reference: 2059428iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Different kinds of "drawing". Pencil drawing by S. Jenner, 18--.
Jenner, Stephen, 1796-Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 643337i
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A man playing the violin with the instrument representing his face. Etching attributed to Cruikshank.
Date: 1818Reference: 34155i
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A woman with a very elaborate hair style and a rump extended with cork armatures is being pursued by winged uncorked bottles. Etching, 1777.
Date: April 11 1777Reference: 35488i