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George Cruikshank
Mr. B- “seeking the Bubble reputation"

1835

About the Item

from The Sailor’s Progress, Plate 5 London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Second Edition. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 1835. 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (250 x 354 mm), full margins. With the quote from The Corsair, A Tale, Canto I, by George Gordon Byron, printing clearly and in full below the image. Light, circular areas of dampstaining at left sheet edge recto, extending into image area approximately 1/4 inch, unobtrusive. Second area of circular dampstaining at center lower sheet edge, well outside of image area. Paper tape remnants at top right and left corners from a former mount. Colors slightly attenuated. Second and final edition. Signed and in the plate by Cruikshank, and bearing Frederick Marryat's anchor moniker. Perhaps introduced to each other by their mutual friend, Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank and Captain Frederick Marryat became fast friends, political confidants, and artistic collaborators, working together many times over the course of their late careers. Marryat, a novelist, caricaturist and captain in the Royal Navy, first went to sea in 1806, and served throughout the Napoleonic Wars. After Napoleon’s defeat, having had a brilliant career at sea, Marryat found his Naval exercises uninspiring, and decided to resign his commission. In November 1830 he left the Royal Navy and took up writing full time. Some of Marryat’s most well loved novels include "Frank Mildmay" (1829), "Peter Simple" (1834), "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836), and "Japhet in Search of a Father" (1836). Marryat was also a well known author of children’s books, having penned "The Pacha of many Tales" (1836), "The Phantom Ship" (1839), "Poor Jack" (1840), "Masterman Ready" (1841), and "The Settlers in Canada" (1844). He is also known for some unrelated remarkable achievements, including having developed the first general system of flag signaling for merchant vessels (Marryat’s Code of Signals), as well as being credited with describing a previously unrecorded gastropod genus Cyclostrema with the type species Cyclostrema cancellatum, and having drawn Napoleon’s deathbed portrait. Originally issued in an oblong folio with 11 sheets and 12 hand-colored plates by Cruikshank after Marryat, this image is signed in the plate, and dated June 1820. The impression, from the second (and final) edition, was published by in London by Thomas McLean in 1835.
  • Creator:
    George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1835
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)Width: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Middletown, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: BH1091stDibs: LU1979210401872

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