print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.3281
- Title
- Object: Outside of the Opera House at Night - Gallantry of Tom and Jerry
- Description
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Jerry Hawthorn handing a lady into a coach, Corinthian Tom following with a lady on his arm, both gentlemen dressed in dark coats, holding opera hats, both ladies wrapped in shawls with feathers in their hair, a coachman standing at the door to the coach, two link boys with flaming torches offering their services to Tom, a large crowd behind them in the colonade outside of the opera house, a beadle pushing his way through the masses and two infantrymen on guard at the near door, one chatting to a young girl, a man shouting to the right; illustration to Egan's "Life in London" (1821)
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1821 (June 1st)
- Dimensions
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Height: 108 millimetres (printed border)
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Life in London, or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.3281
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179
