Research Catalog

Title

Cartoon and caricature drawings depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic]

Publication

[17---194-?]

Details

Additional Authors

• Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811.
• Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
• Fox, Fontaine, 1884-1964.
• Lada, Josef, 1887-1957.
• Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933.
• May, Phil, 1864-1903.
• Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944.
• Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.

Description

22 drawings : ink, watercolor, some col.; 41 x 32 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Caricatures depicting man and wife after three weeks of marriage, ignoring each other as man smokes; scene outside a pub, man smoking, woman leaning out window and vagabond with goods tied to a stick; man smoking and looking content as family cries all around him; a group of rulers and clergy; cartoons depicting man ransacking house for cigarette; trolley driver making passengers wait while he smokes; clubmen sharing a cigar through a large hookah-like device; man in knickers being enticed into a restaurant; cigar and bottle being kicked out of front door, with path leading to back door delineated by arrows; man with gummed flap holding cigarette to lip; men conversing and smoking; man reading and smoking as woman knits; congregant asking priest for cigarette in confessional; man with hand-fanfacing another man with pitpe in a hellish setting; series of four drawings showing fight between shoeshine boy and rich boy with balloon, rich boy ending up with shoeshine boy's cigar.

Subjects

• Watercolors
• Pen works
• Drawings > Czech
• Drawings > American
• Tobacco pipes
• Temperance
• Shoe shiners
• Queens
• Kings and rulers
• Heads of state
• Emperors
• Reading
• Priests
• Parks
• Marriage
• Knitting
• Hell
• Heat
• War
• Tournaments
• Swordplay
• Street fighting (Military science)
• Night fighting (Military science)
• Naval art and science
• Military art and science
• Fencing
• Dueling
• Combat
• Bullfights
• Boxing
• Battles
• Animal fighting
• Families
• Eating & drinking
• Domestic life
• Dogs
• Couples
• Conversation
• Confessionals (Architecture)
• Clubs
• Cigars
• Cigarettes
• Children
• Bishops
• Bars (Drinking establishments)
• Balloons
• Antismoking movement
• Community Leaders Allied for Superior Schools

Genre/Form

• Drawings – American.
• Drawings – Czech.
• Pen works.
• Watercolors.

Note

• Collection title devised by cataloger.
• Titles and legends in English and Czech.
• Includes drawings by Isaac Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, Fontaine Fox, L.M. Glackens, Josef Lada, George B. Luks, Phil May, W. Heath Robinson and Thomas Rowlandson.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Arents Drawings 96-351

OCLC

NYPG96-F181

Title

Cartoon and caricature drawings depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic]

Imprint

[17---194-?]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Added Author

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811. Artist

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856. Artist

Fox, Fontaine, 1884-1964. Artist

Lada, Josef, 1887-1957. Artist

Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933. Artist

May, Phil, 1864-1903. Artist

Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944. Artist

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. Artist

Research Call Number

Arents Drawings 96-351