BIB_ID
288798
Accession number
MA 4981.10
Display Date
1871 July 22.
Credit line
Gift of Kenneth A. Lohf, 1995.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.9 x 14.3 cm
Notes
Part of an album of drawings, letters, engravings, and photographs compiled by Joseph Crawhall. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 4981 for more information.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 23 May 1972, lot 416); Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
A printed invitation with the dates inserted in an unidentified hand: "The pleasure of your Company is requested on Wednesday next, the 26th inst., at half-past six sharp." The upper half of the dinner ticket includes a caricature (initialed "D.M.") of some of the members of Punch depicted as bats or birds in flight. On the left a man dressed as a cook rings a bell and holds a large spoon. A bird with the head of Shirley Brooks, editor of Punch, perches on the cook's head holding a butter knife. The flying Punch members have been labeled in ink (by Joseph Crawhall?) as C[harles] K[eene], [R.F.] Sketchley, [F.C.] Burnand, Percival Leigh, John Tenniel, G[eorge] du Maurier, Horace Mayhew, and Tom Taylor. "Charles Keene Esq." is written at the bottom of the invitation.
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