print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.1379
- Title
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Object: Cutters on active service.
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Series: Punch in London
- Description
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Illustration to issue no. 17; a group of men gathered round the front half of a dead Indian elephant (Chunee) lying on the ground, ropes around its body attached to a large pulley above; a man at left writes notes in a book with a quill, another standing at centre with one foot on the elephant's leg holds a large pair of callipers, three other men at the beast's mouth, one holding a knife, inspect its tusk, which is sawn off in the middle; in the foreground, a bucket, axe and saw. 4 May 1832
Wood-engraved illustration to a letterpress paper of eight pages
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 212 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Height: 79 millimetres (illustration)
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Width: 157 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 105 millimetres (illustration)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For issue no. 17, see 1870,1008.1366.1-2. According to George, this is evidently an old block re-used for the present issue, Chunee having been killed in 1826; see also 1870,1008.1370.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Punch in London
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.1379
