print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1864,0611.389
- Title
- Object: Tom getting the best of a Charley.
- Description
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Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 232. A night scene on the east side of Temple Bar, which frames the Strand and St. Clements in the background, lit by a full moon. Tom (r.) overturns a watchman's box from which a poor terrified old man leans out shrieking. A fellow-watchman (1.) springs his rattle and shouts. Behind Tom is Jerry, much amused, between two gaily dressed prostitutes who cling to him.
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)
31 August 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 and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952.)
The most popular of the series, see Nos. 14494, 14633 [1]; cf. Nos. 14403, 15337. It was printed on a handkerchief. Egan, Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, 1828, p. 9.
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
- 1864,0611.389