print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1948,0214.689
Title: Object: The circulating library
Description: Three women in a library, one of whom looks through the catalogue discussing the titles that interest her with the man behind the counter. 1 October 1804 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Published by: Laurie & Whittle; After: Isaac Cruikshank
School/style: British
Production date: 1804
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 200 millimetres; Width: 252 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Laurel Peterson (email June 2023): This print seems to be derived from a drawing in the Yale Center for British Art's collection by Isaac Cruikshank. https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8602
Bibliographic references: Laurie & Whittle Quarto Drolls 1795 / Laurie and Whittle's Catalogue of ... Prints (369); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Francis D Klingender
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0214.689

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