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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Son's of harmony [print] : scene Chandois Street / drawn by Cruikshank.

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.
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.
Classification
Department