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print
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album
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newspaper/periodical
Object Type
print
album
newspaper/periodical
Museum number
1953,0710.24.1-50
Title
Series:
St. Stephen's Review
Description
An album of 50 "presentation cartoons" from the St. Stephen's Review for 1887. Political satires on various subjects, pasted in with excerpts from the Review. Chromolithographs
Producer name
After:
William Mecham ("Tom Merry")
Print made by:
William Mecham ("Tom Merry")
School/style
British
Production date
1887
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
chromolithograph
Dimensions
Height:
365 millimetres
(sheet size of each album page)
Width:
525 millimetres
Curator's comments
One of eight volumes of presentation cartoons from the St. Stephen's Review (kept at 188*.b.18 to 25).
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
society/human life
politics
Associated names
Representation of:
Queen Victoria
Representation of:
John Bull
Associated with:
Charles Dickens
(Oliver Twist)
Associated titles
Associated Title:
St. Stephen's Review
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Sir Frederic George Kenyon
(as Secretary of the Friends of the National Library)
Acquisition date
1953
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1953,0710.24.1-50