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Sketch of the Punch table : autograph manuscript signed, ca. 1860?

BIB_ID
283345
Accession number
MA 2011.4
Display Date
ca. 1860?
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1960.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 17.6 x 22 cm
Notes
"(Toast of the evening): William Bradbury--& we wish he were here!"
Includes a sketch of the clown Punchinello sitting in a punch bowl in the center of the table.
Part of the Bradbury album, a scrapbook of letters, sketches, drawings, prints, photographs, and printed ephemera. Significant items in the album are described in 27 individual records (MA 2011.1-27).
Signed by Horace Mayhew, Shirley Brooks, Percival Leigh, Mark Lemon, J. Tenniel, Charles Keene, H. Silver, John Leech, Frederick M. Evans, and Tom Taylor
Summary
A sketch of the table where the Punch editors and writers dined and wrote the periodical. Each place is marked by a glass and signed by its occupant.