A shilling well laid out Tom and Jerry at the exhibition of pictures at the Royal Academy / [graphic]

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Title: A shilling well laid out Tom and Jerry at the exhibition of pictures at the Royal Academy / [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist.
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, publisher.
Published / Created: July 1, 1821.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Sherwood, Neely & Jones
Abstract: "Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 341. A 'lounge' in Somerset House; the room is crowded with visitors holding catalogues, inspecting the pictures and each other. The upper pictures, chiefly portraits, are shown in detail, the others are hidden by the crowd. Among the visitors is the Persian Ambassador (see No. 13350), speaking to a fashionably dressed black man. Bound in the 1821 edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title form caption below image.
Plate from: Egan, P. Life in London.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xvi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.9 x 22.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Aquatints England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1821
England > London > 1821

Access: Public
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