print;
satirical print;
newspaper/periodical;
title-page
- Museum number
- 2006,U.1318
- Title
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Object: What it must come to; or ladies in the professions
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Object: Comic News
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Object: Are we not all brothers?
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Object: This is a fancy portrait of the editor
- Description
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An issue of 'The Comic News', edited by Henry Byron, published by George Maddick (Volume I, Number 21, 5th of December, 1863, pages 162-168), with seven caricature illustrations:
Title-page: 'What it must come to; or ladies in the professions': six images of working women from top left in clockwise: governor, medical doctor, barrister, post woman, banker, police officer; a coat-of-arms above;
Page 163: two vignettes, one of a black man looking at himself in a mirror and another of a man hanging from his back;
Page 164: 'Comic News': a clock-face with human-body waving his hand towards the viewer;
Page 165: 'Are we not all brothers?': a gorilla in a human suit grinning, flanked by white and black men, by Cruikshank, dedicated to the Anthropological Society;
Page 166: 'This is a fancy portrait of the editor': vignette of a man sitting at a desk, turning towards the viewer, with a quill pen in his right hand;
Page 167: Vignette of a boy sitting on his grandfather's lap by a table in front of a fireplace.
1863
Wood-engraving with letterpress
- Production date
- 1863
- Dimensions
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Height: 335 millimetres (ruled border of each page)
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Width: 215 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1899,0420.118.5 for comment on the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-2006
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2006,U.1318