‘Morsels of Mirth No.2’, 1840

Description

Mounted coloured lithograph, entitled ‘MORSELS OF MIRTH. NO 2.’, designed and possibly lithographed by Charles Jameson Grant, printed by L.M. Lefevre, and published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1840.

This caricature features a series of scenes on different subjects, with a central image and eight smaller vignettes. The large central scene takes place in a bedroom. A man sitting in a chair, wearing a cap and nightgown, looks aghast at the cabbage sprouting from the tip of his nose.

An old woman, wearing a cap, spectacles and apron, approaches the man’s cabbage nose clutching a large knife.

text below the design reads; “EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS OF THE VEGETABLE PILLS ON A TAILOR, WHO HAVING CABBAGED TO A GREAT EXTENT, WAS TAKEN ILL AND AFTER SWALLOWING 130 BOXES OF THE AFORESAID PILLS, PRESENTE THE ABOVE PHENOMENON!!”.