print; satirical print; pamphlet

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Object Type: print; satirical print; pamphlet
Museum number: 1978,U.3242.7
Title: Object: The Gin-Shop
Description: 'This is the Woman, with woebegone face...'; the wife of the drunkard leading her husband away from the counter, watched by the stout landlord and his wife, while two women in the background come to blows over drink; 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: 87 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 (4481); 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.3242.7
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179

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