print;
admission-ticket
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.13597
- Description
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Admission ticket to a performance organised by the Guild of Literature and Art, with figure representing the painter Richard Wilson at left, taking a painting to a pawn shop, and at right figure representing Daniel Defoe, with a manuscript of 'Robinson Crusoe' in his pocket, leaving the office of the publisher Edmund Curll with a sad expression on his face, met by his worried wife and daughter; books and pallette with paintbrushes lying in foreground; after Ward. 1851
Mixed method, including etching, aquatint and engraving, on chine collé
- Production date
- 1851
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 220 millimetres (cut irregularly)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1851,0908.3 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.13597
