print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3158
- Description
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The world, with an enormous globe for a head, and his wife next to him, bowing before Britannia, who sits on a throne to the right, her collared lion at her feet, gesturing to a model of the Great Exhibition, a bee-hive surmounted by the Union Jack on top of the model; frontispiece to Mayhew's "The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family" (1851)
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1851
- Dimensions
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Height: 222 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: The Great Exhibition 1851
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family, Who Came up to London to 'Enjoy Themselves', and to See The Great Exhibition
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3158
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179