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Author/Creator:Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.
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Title:The hostile press and the consequences of crim. con., or, Shakspeare in danger / R. Cruikshank delt.
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Publication:[London] : Pubd. Feby. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, [February 1825]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.8 x 38.7 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 40.3 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 825.02.00.01+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:Matted to 37 x 49 cm.
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Provenance:Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books; January 2020.
With the ochre-colored ink stamp on verso: Collection D. Wilmeth.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:wove paper
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Notes:Title etched below image.
George Cruikshank might have collaborated with Robert Cruikshank in the production of this print; see British Museum catalogue.
Quoted text following title: "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow - thou shalt not escape calumny" - Hamlet.
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Summary:"Kean, in the costume of Sir Giles Overreach, stands on the stage, indicated by a boarded floor surrounded by flame and smoke from the jaws of a semicircle of ferocious monsters, serpentine, scaly, and fanged, and with glaring eyeballs. The largest and most menacing is the Old Times, emitting Gall, Spite Venon [sic] Hypocricy. Towards this Kean directs his levelled rapier, saying, By the powers of Shakspeare, I defy ye all. He holds above his head a large open book: Shakspeare, which is irradiated. Almost as large as the 'Times' is the pendant to it: New Times, vomiting Hypocricy. The other monsters are not specified, they spit flames inscribed respectively: Spleen; Cant; Malignity; Slander; Spite; Envy; Malice; Nonsence; Oblique."--British Museum catalogue.
A comment on the backlash in the press regarding the Cox vs. Kean trial, in which Kean was accused of adultery with Robert Albion Cox's wife, Charlotte Cox. Kean gave a speech at Drury Lane, Jan. 28 1825, in which he offered himself up to the audience: "If it [the backlash] is done by a hostile Press, I shall endeavour to withstand it -- if it is your verdict, I shall bow to your decision, remember with gratitude your former favours, and leave you" (quotation from the British Museum catalogue).
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Variant and related titles:Shakspeare in danger
Shakespeare in danger
- Format:Visual Material
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References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14867
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Subjects:Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, depicted.
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833--Performances, depicted.
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
Performances.
Actors--British.
Stages (Platforms)
Monsters.
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Subjects (Local Yale):William, Don B.--Stamp.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1820.
Etchings--England--London--1820.
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Also listed under:Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, attributed name.
Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
England--London.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14831206