BIB_ID
196412
Accession number
MA 14245
Creator
Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1830 August 31.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) : illustration ; 23 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Postmarked with remains of seal; address panel reads: George Cruikshank Esq / Myddleton Terrace / Pentonville.
Written from: 20 Waterloo Road, opposite / Agnes Place.
With a comic illustration on the upper half of the first page of Egan's letter, with caption reading, "An author up the spout!!! / Who is anxious to be down!!! An unredeemed pladge!", showing Cruikshank at work at a table at left, drawing before an easel with an image of a boxer labeled "Walbourn as Dusty Bob" and surrounded by drawings of boxers and boxing, as well as sheets bearing the titles of various works illustrated by Cruikshank; at right, Egan is shown emerging from a chimney spout hung with a pawnbroker's sign and labeled "Ball's pawnbro[ker]" and "Money [illegible] spout".
Written from: 20 Waterloo Road, opposite / Agnes Place.
With a comic illustration on the upper half of the first page of Egan's letter, with caption reading, "An author up the spout!!! / Who is anxious to be down!!! An unredeemed pladge!", showing Cruikshank at work at a table at left, drawing before an easel with an image of a boxer labeled "Walbourn as Dusty Bob" and surrounded by drawings of boxers and boxing, as well as sheets bearing the titles of various works illustrated by Cruikshank; at right, Egan is shown emerging from a chimney spout hung with a pawnbroker's sign and labeled "Ball's pawnbro[ker]" and "Money [illegible] spout".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning his current financial difficulties and lack of income over the previous year; noting that it has been "upwards of six years since I had five minutes conversation" with Cruikshank, and remarking on some of the past projects that will evidently never see completion; reminding Cruikshank of his promise to make a few designs for him, and asking if him if he would be willing to provide half a dozen designs to illustrate Egan's latest proposed writing project.
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