print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.2660
- Description
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Four scenes; the first, two dogs dressed as dandies, wearing coats, top hats and smoking cigars, looking away from two dogs drawing a dustcart, both couples criticising the other, a footman carrying a lady's dog and a small dog talking to a cained dog beyond; the second; skaters, on an artificial ice rink, falling through the floor to the room below, where gentlemen stop their gambling in shock, some stealing money, scenes of an alpine forest and a volcano painted on the walls beyond; the third; poor children dancing and eating at a charity ball. two gentlemen and a beadle drinking, a small band playing on a dais; the fourth; various fanciful flying machines, shaped as palaces and mansions; illustration to Cruikshank's "The Comic Almanack 1844" (1844)
Etching
- Production date
- 1844
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 348 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Comic Almanack (1844)
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1978
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.2660
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1978,U.2662
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Miscellaneous number: 1978,U.2664
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Miscellaneous number: 1978,U.2666
