print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2013,7069.11
- Title
- Series: Omnium-Gatherum.
- Description
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No. 3, second series; sheet of comic and other vignettes; at centre, a Chinese scene; above, two squinting men, one asking 'Who are you Squinting at Mister Swivel Eye?', an (?) Italian woman at a window, comic cooks fighting while a ghost looks on behind and a cat runs by; below, 'The Whispering Gallery!', a rowdy group of spectators watching a performance, including a sweep, a man with fingers in his mouth as though whistling, and a woman with a black eye. At upper left, 'taking pot luck', a man with a flower pot on his head, a shelf above having broken; below, 'Slave trade', a black servant woman scrubbing a step; a black minstrel; a man in a cart pulled by a dog; 'Betting the long odds', a short man approaching a tall man with a whip at a racecourse. At upper right, 'the last token!!', a sailor on shore, having lopped of his pigtail, offers it to a weeping woman; devils boxing; a black man running from a gigantic tiger; an old woman with pattens and broomstick; a quayside encounter between three (?)Chinese and two black people. c. 1831
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1831 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 237 millimetres
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Width: 306 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See comment for 2013,7069.10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2013,7069.11