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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
Listons dream!
etching with aquatint
image: 268 x 370 mm, plate mark: 277 x 375 mm; sheet: 288 x 391 mm
Peel 2213
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from caption.
Printed below title: Designed and etched by Robert Cruikshank. / Published by G. Humphrey 24 St. James Street, July 1825.
Four lines of verse printed on either side of title (eight lines total); first line: As Liston lay rapt in delicious repose
Summary:
Liston starts up in bed, alarmed at Venus who stands upon cloud at the foot of his bed (left). Mrs. Liston, small and doll-like, sleeps beside him. A large crescent moon shines through the window. On an arm-chair by the bed (right) are heaped top-hat, trousers, &c, a volume of Shakespeare, a candle (extinguished), and a glass of grog.
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