Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 56
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?
Published
London : Publish'd 8th Jany., 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, [1801
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Library's copy mounted on leaf 56 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Plate numbered '253' in lower left corner.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Library's copy mounted on leaf 56 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 177 x 234 mm; plate mark: 200 x 247 mm; sheet: 229 x 281 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the members of a club asleep around rectangular table on which are two lighted candles, bottle, glasses, and a pipe. The chairman stands at the head of the table, singing or speaking, with an eye-glass held to his eye.
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