print; satirical print; pamphlet

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Object Type: print; satirical print; pamphlet
Museum number: 1978,U.3242.12
Title: Object: The Gin-Shop
Description: 'This is the Cottage, the home of delight...'; interior of a modest cottage with husband, wife and two children sitting around a table, saying grace; 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
Producer name: Print made by: George Cruikshank; Published by: S W Partridge & Co; Printed by: Watson & Co.
School/style
Production date: 1807-1878
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 53 millimetres (image, without frames); Height: 688 millimetres (sheet); Width: 81 millimetres (image, without frames); Width: 521 millimetres (sheet)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1978,U.3242.1.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed); Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (4486); Cohn 1924 / George Cruikshank, catalogue raisonné (468)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1978,U.3242.12
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179

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