Accession number:
PML 86913
Published:
London : Printed for Septimus Prowett, 55, Pall Mall, 1828.
Description:
[54] leaves ; ill. (some col) : 26 cm.
Credit:
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
24 etchings of 12 images from Punch and Judy on facing plates, in colored and uncolored states. Also two uncolored leaves, one showing a puppet theater and the puppeter from the back, and another showing a crowd in front of a show (Bruton identifies this as a proof etching washing with India ink as instruction for the acquatinter. At end: 3 leaves of newspaper clippings tracing the history of Chinese productions of this play.
Cover title.
Above title: "Proofs on India Paper Price 15s."
A handwritten note by W.W. Bruton notes that the only other large-paper copy of these proofs that he has seen are in Mrs. Cruickshank's bequest to the South Kensington Museum (i.e. the Victoria and Albert).
Binding:
Full olive green levant by Riviere & Son; with original upper wrapper as title page.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, June 9, 1921, lot 106; from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
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