print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1869,1009.36
- Title
- Object: The wonderful mill.
- Description
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Decrepit old men and women in antiquated costume ascend by a ladder (r.) into the funnel-shaped hopper of a mill, while others trip out of the spout as young people, slim and elegant, modishly dressed. A boy turns the handle. An old woman stands in the hopper, still holding a crutch but casting away her spectacles. Three of the rejuvenated dance in the background. See BMSat 10495. 1805
Etching
- Production date
- 1805 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres
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Width: 241 millimetres
- $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', VIII, 1947)
Reid, No. 7.
(Supplementary information)
This print is one of four designed to be sold as a set to children, see also BMSat 10495 and 10496, the remainder being a lottery print (1869,1009.35). Reid gives the date 1803, when Cruikshank was only 11 years old, and George's dating of 1805 following Austin Dobson (D.N.B.) seems more likely. The plates were originally published by Langley & Belch, No. 173, High Street, Borough (Cruikshank's first publishers, see Reid), Langham presumably purchasing the plates later.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1869
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1869,1009.36