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| Keywords: That-accounts-for-it-1799-caricature-Isaac-Cruikshank.jpg Print shows a number of men and women each with a particular problem that seems to be troubling them they contrive a solution which leads to the remark that accounts for it <br/><br/> That Accounts for it a January 15th 1799 caricature by Isaac Cruikshank on various human foibles as exemplified by twelve individuals and the explanations they come up with ;1 Paterfamilias addressing self Why Jonathan Jonathan what are you about This will never do -- a great deal worse than last year -- can't make my accounts balance at all -- Oh there was our month's jaunt to Margate a coastal resort and be damned to it -- That accounts for it ;2 Zomerzet rustic I cannot think what makes I have such a cruel dislike to Parsons -- they be generally very zevil civil charitable Jontlemen -- oh I recollect -- my Mother long'd for zome Tithe Pig -- and the Vicar would not let her have any -- That accounts for it ;3 Woman with pretensions to fashion but a somewhat lower-class manner of speech and a very frizzed-out wig at a time when more and more people were discarding wigs especially the young and fashionable Nobody takes no notice of my Vig I vas told I should be the admiration of all Bond Street The fellows don't understand taste and elegance that accounts for it ;4 Lawyer in occupational wig Not a single brief in the whole Circuit -- No Law stirring -- What can be the reason Mankind grow wiser every day -- and that accounts for it ;5 Young and pretty widow still in mourning What makes me so low-spirited of late -- I am continually thinking of my late Husband I believe I want another -- so that accounts for it ;6 Merchant trader Nothing going on at Change i e the exchange all dull and heavy -- to be sure we have had no flams from the Continent lately -- so that accounts for it In this context flam means something like falsified news ;7 Disheveled man What a number of fine women are here and Hoax me if I saw but two when I came in -- Egad I believe I am drunk -- so that accounts for it An early version of the beer goggles theory ;8 Self-deluding stout woman I cannot conceive what makes the Men admire me so this morning -- oh I have found it out I sport my neat Ancle and new Sandals -- That accounts for it ;9 Former minor con-man or medical nostrum-seller who has improved his fortunes to the point that he now owns his own carriage What a change in my affairs since the time I was a Mountebank -- Carriage -- puffs -- and advertisements -- More flats than sharps in the world -- That accounts for it Puffs were panegyrics presented as part of newspaper stories rather an as explicit advertisements; Flats were those who allow themselves to be deceived ;10 Self-deluding stout Irishman How the dear craters creatures i e women luck look at me By St Patrick they put me to the blush -- I suppose it is because I am so slim and jonteel -- and that accounts for it ;11 Scheming adventuress I thought we should have made a good thing of the Crim Con adultery trial business my husband and myself to have retired comfortably on the Damages that the husband would have won by suing the man but it would not do -- the Market is overstock'd that accounts for it ;12 One-legged sailor Why I say my hearty we hear nothing of the French Navy now -- I suppose they got so cursedly lick'd last time they didn't like it -- eh my hearty -- aye That accounts for it For other Isaac Cruikshank caricatures with a similar overall structure see Image Ca-1795-militia-volunteers-drill-innuendo-caricature jpg and Image 1799-Belvoir-Castle-houseparty-Isaac-Cruikshank jpg Edited from image http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/07800/07800u tif found on the Library of Congress website linked from page http //lcweb2 loc gov/cgi-bin/query/I fsaall app brum detr swann look gottscho pan horyd genthe var cai cd hh yan bbcards lomax ils prok brhc nclc matpc iucpub tgmi 7 /temp/~pp_sM5g displayType 1 m856sd ppmsca m856sf 07800 mdb fsaall app brum detr swann look gottscho pan horyd genthe var cai cd hh yan bbcards lomax ils prok brhc nclc matpc iucpub tgmi http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/07800/07800u tif Library of Congress � Artwork by Isaac Cruikshank Published by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly 1799 Jan 15 LOC-image ppmsca 07800 creator Isaac Cruikshank � Published by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly 1799 Jan 15 1799-01-15 ---- Bibliographic information on the LoC site TITLE That accounts for it / I C CALL NUMBER PC 3 - 1799--That accounts for it B size P P REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-DIG-ppmsca-07800 digital file from original print No known restrictions on publication SUMMARY Print shows a number of men and women each with a particular problem that seems to be troubling them they contrive a solution which leads to the remark that accounts for it MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London Pub by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly 1799 Jan 15 CREATOR Cruikshank Isaac 1756 -1811 engraver NOTES Title from item Folio's of caracatures lent out for the evening Forms part of British Cartoon Collection Library of Congress SUBJECTS Relations between the sexes--England--1790-1800 Clothing dress--England--1790-1800 FORMAT Satires Visual works British 1790-1800 Etchings British Hand-colored 1790-1800 PART OF British Cartoon Collection Library of Congress REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA DIGITAL ID digital file from original print ppmsca 07800 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/ppmsca 07800 CARD 2005680457 PD-old-100 1799 cartoons 18th-century caricatures Isaac Cruikshank Fashion in 1799 Drunken people in art Tricorne hats in art Adultery Widows Queues hair fashion Wigs in art Wigs court dress | ||||
