print;
satirical print;
pamphlet
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3242.1
- Title
- Object: The Gin-Shop
- Description
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'This is the Gin-shop all glittering and gay...': exterior of a shop with an angel in a niche set over the door, plants on the window-sill, posters on the arched windows below, advertising 'Christmas Gin / Double L Whiskey / Spirit Stores'; one of twelve illustrations to an Illustrated Penny Reader by J W Kirton; reprint, the illustrations printed in three rows of four on the same sheet.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1807-1878
- Dimensions
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Height: 107 millimetres (image, without frames)
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Height: 688 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 81 millimetres (image, without frames)
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Width: 521 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The illustrations were also printed as an Octavo pamphlet. The sheet version is lettered in the surrounding frame: 'The Gin-Shop. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Reprinted from the Band of Hope Review. An Illustrated Paper for the Young. Published Monthly. Price One Halfpenny. / Illustrated Wall-Papers (Packet B.) No. 13 Price One Penny. / S.W. Partridge & Co., "British Workman", Office, 9, Paternoster Row, London. / Geo. Watson & Co., Printers, 28, Charles Street, Farringdon Road.". According to Reid, it was intended to be hung up in workshops. Verses accompany the images, a line added in each of the first four and then a couplet added to the subsequent, culminating in a poem of seventeen lines.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3242.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179
