drawing
- Museum number
- 1975,U.659
- Description
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A drawing on tracing paper related to Reid 2654 'Fairy connoisseurs inspecting Mr Locker's collection of drawings.' A design for a frontispiece to a projected catalogue of the collection of drawings, prints &c in the posession of Frederick Locker Esq and a sketch of the room at No. 13 Victoria Street, where Mr Locker formerly lived, and representing fairies in appropriate costume as Italian, German, Dutch and English connoisseurs inspecting the works of art.
1868
Graphite with signature in ink
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres (approx. height)
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Width: 129 millimetres (approx. width)
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- Curator's comments
- Description and date based on GW Reid 'A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank.' 1871.
For related drawings see 1975,U.657 and 1978,U.658.
For versions of the etching related to this tracing, see 1977, U.1451, 1977,U.1452 and 1977,U.1452+.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1975,U.659
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179