BIB_ID
196089
Accession number
MA 13926
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Display Date
1843.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 20.5 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Address from postmark.
Inscribed on an address leaf addressed to Cruikshank at "G. Cruikshank Esq / Myddleton Terrace / Pentonville"; with postmark dated June 4, 1843 and printed "Pre-paid / Artists' Annuity Fund."
Inscribed on an address leaf addressed to Cruikshank at "G. Cruikshank Esq / Myddleton Terrace / Pentonville"; with postmark dated June 4, 1843 and printed "Pre-paid / Artists' Annuity Fund."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Address leaf covered with sketches in graphite and watercolor by George Cruikshank, and accompanied by notes in pencil, evidently also in Cruikshank's hand (i.e., "Troubles seldom come single", "Hot porridge / a poor boy burns his mouth and his mother boxes his ears."), and signed by the artist in ink.
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