print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1859,0316.694
- Description
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Four scenes; the first, various methods of taking 'the cold-water cure', men sitting in tanks, water spraying onto men's heads and bodies from pumps, a man watering another with a can and a man seated in an ice pale; the second, lawyers and judges reduced to menial occupations, on changes to the common law, one a street-sweeper and three others selling loaves of bread, kites and hot potatoes; the third, three images of the English having adopted Chinese customs and hair-styles, a king seated on a throne surrounded by courtiers, a man beating a watchman and ladies and gentlemen dancing at a ball; the fourth, a large submarine shaped as a sea creature, fish, a whale, a narwhal, a sawfish and mermaids shocked at the appearance of the machine; illustration to Cruikshank's "The Comic Almanack 1843" (1843)
Etching
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Comic Almanack (1843)
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0316.694
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1859,0316.688
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Miscellaneous number: 1859,0316.691
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Miscellaneous number: 1859,0316.693