Accession number
PML 144634, fol. 27v-28r
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
London : Pubd by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket, Augt. 1st, 1822 [i.e. 1835?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Pt. 5."
A reissue of a print originally published by G. Humphrey, Oct. 19, 1822, and included in Thomas McLean's edition of restrikes of Cruikshank etchings, issued in 1835 with the title: "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...".
A reissue and later state, with "Pt. 5" introduced after the title; McLean's imprint, which reads "Aug 1st, 1835" in other recorded copies of his reissue of Cruikshank's etching, shows visible evidence of having been altered here to read "1822", probably sometime after printing.
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark.
A reissue of a print originally published by G. Humphrey, Oct. 19, 1822, and included in Thomas McLean's edition of restrikes of Cruikshank etchings, issued in 1835 with the title: "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...".
A reissue and later state, with "Pt. 5" introduced after the title; McLean's imprint, which reads "Aug 1st, 1835" in other recorded copies of his reissue of Cruikshank's etching, shows visible evidence of having been altered here to read "1822", probably sometime after printing.
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching, hand colored ; image: 256 x 348 mm; sheet: 259 x 357 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a crowded promenade of fashionable types in Hyde Park with the Achilles statue in the background, and (right) the houses of Park Lane receding in perspective. Almost all walk in pairs, arm-in-arm. The principal figures are two absurd dandies (left) and two women who advance towards each other; one dandy ogles the women through a monocle in the handle of a riding-switch. Waists are wasp-like for both sexes, trousers are more inflated at the hips, hats are bell-shaped, tall, and worn at an angle. Uniforms have disappeared: the head of one soldier only is seen in the background. One man is engulfed in a vast cape. The women advance with pointed toes, drawing up their long frilled skirts in front. Large checks have appeared here and there. In the background a crowd is collected round the Achilles.
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