print;
satirical print;
pamphlet
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3242.6
- Title
- Object: The Gin-Shop
- Description
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'This is the Drunkard, in rags and disgrace...'; a man in a battered top-hat and ragged dark suit, fishing in his pocket for a coin to pay the landlord who stands behind the counter with his wife, others in the background, including a mother carrying a baby; 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: 86 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
- See 1978,U.3242.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3242.6
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179