print;
book-illustration;
almanac;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1978,U.2848
- Title
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Object: The scholastic hen and her chickens
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Series: The Comic Almanack, 1847
- Description
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Proof of a plate from an almanac, on a sheet with 1978.u.2847, 2849 and 2850; Miss Thimblebee Loquitur, a schoolmistress with a large bonnet and scarf obscuring her face, instructing her young female pupils to look away from two officers approaching from left. 1846
Etching
- Production date
- 1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 82 millimetres (image)
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Height: 223 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 140 millimetres (image)
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Width: 352 millimetres (plate-mark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992 Sep-Oct, London, Order of St John Museum, Cruikshank 200
1992 Nov-Dec, Burnley, Townley Hall AG & Museum, Cruikshank 200
1993 Jan-Feb, Maidstone Museum & AG, Cruikshank 200
1993 Feb-April, Sheffield, Graves AG, Cruikshank 200
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Comic Almanack, 1847
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.2848
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179