Ax my eye,Cartoon,c1830,George Cruikshank,Oliver Twist

Title: Ax my eye
Creator(s): Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1830]
Summary: Cartoon shows a man, with a donkey carrying baskets of produce, tickling a women (who is offering him a drink) under her chin. The man is jauntily dressed in knee britches and a striped vest. The woman wears a frilly bonnet and a flowered dress with large puffed sleeves. They stand in front of a shop with bottles in the window, with signs reading 'RUMMY,' 'Dealer in,' and '[?]LAIRUP.' The phrase in the caption, 'Ax my eye,' may derive from an English ballad. George Cruikshank was a caricaturist and illustrator who is today best known for his illustrations for Oliver Twist and other works by Charles Dickens.
Notes:
Title from item.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Unprocessed in WOOD/Cruikshank.104
No date in inventory/ww. Dated on basis of fashions shown in the picture. Attribution from the collector.
Sources: Spartacus. schoolnet.co.uk [online] under Cruikshank; Victoriana.com, Antique women's fashions 1825-1840 ljr
Subjects:
Donkeys--1820-1840.
Couples--1820-1840.
Ink drawings--British--1820-1840.
Satires (Visual works)--British--1820-1840.
Bookmark /2005680360/
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