print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3243
- Description
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Six vignettes, enclosed within a large pair of compasses, illustrative of the progress of a hard-working apprentice; including his work as a clerk, studying after dark at his books, doing business on a harbour, riding in his carriage, sitting in court as a justice of the peace, sitting in state as Lord Mayor of London; six vignettes outside of the compasses, surrounded by foliate designs and chains, various items of dissolute life around the borders, illustrative of the progress of an improvident apprentice; including playing at skittles, cock-fighting, gambling in a tavern, drinking with his fellow gamblers, sitting in his jail cell, escorted by soldiers onto a boat for transportation; after Cruikshank; frontispiece to "A Present for an Apprentice" (1840)
Etching
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 millimetres (printed border)
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Width: 78 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Present for an Apprentice
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3243
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179