Examples of fraudulent imitations (?). Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.

  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Date:
1843
Reference:
588782i
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Description

From top to bottom: 'la jeune France' sits evenly in a balance with 'Young England', a man standing on a ladder brushes paint onto a wall to suggest 'fresco painting', 'the singing mouse' plays 'the air by madam catalanc...' on a piano watched in the centre by three cats with eye glasses, and a scare crow is 'The farmers friend' bottom right

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1843.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; sheet 16.9 x 10.5 cm

Lettering

Humbugs of the day. George Cruikshank 1843

Reference

Wellcome Collection 588782i

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