print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1864,0611.385
- Title
- Object: Tom & Jerry larking at a masquerade supper, at the Opera House.
- Description
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Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 193. Revellers, some in masks, surround the supper-table, on which a clown dances, knocking against a chandelier of cut glass. A band of Pandean minstrels is in an alcove (r.), all play pan-pipes, some have also other instruments: drum, triangle, bells. Tom, as a Spanish don, sits at the head of the table between a queen and (?) Titania. Jerry, as a huntsman, leans across the table halloing and flourishing a whip. On the bench on the near side of the table are a Harlequin and a lady, a nun seated between a dustman and a fireman; on the r. is a devil. Other characters are a Jew talking to a pig-faced lady, see No. 12630, a Chinese, a sailor, a Don Quixote, prone on the floor and very ill.
Bound in the 1821 edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. (See 1864,0611.376-412. 184.c.7)
1 October 1820
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 237 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952. For further information on the publication, see 1864,0611.376.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Life in London
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0611.385