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George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Sir Bulkeley Price Bringing the Mortgage Money to Mr. Scarve
1842?
7 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (187 x 225 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, with graphite sketches in the margins, on cream paper, laid down on white paper.
2006.39:3
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
Notes
Forms part of a collection of 20 drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, The miser's daughter.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in book I, chapter 4, of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 1, 1842.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in book I, chapter 4, of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 1, 1842.
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below image in pen and brown ink; numbered "3" in graphite at head of sheet; marginal sketch in graphite at right, with an inscription referring to the pub signs shown in the illustration, "Half Moon / Three Pigeons / Blackamores Head / Kings Head"; on verso of mount: Vol. I, p. 134.
Summary
Drawing shows a crowded street with Sir Bulkeley Price, mounted on his horse amongst his men, raising his hat ironically to Mr. Scarve (far left), who attempts to attack him with his sword as he is restrained by Jacob; Hilda, her hands clasped in appeal looks up at the knight, and men with bags of money are shown in the foreground, with observers looking out of the windows of the houses opposite; with a marginal sketch in graphite of a man saddling a horse in the margin at right.
Associated names
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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