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A key to the "Worship of Bacchus" : painted and etched by George Cruikshank / as described by himself.

Accession number
PML 198740
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
London : National Temperance Publication Depôt, 337, Strand, 1865
Credit line
Gift of Christopher Hewat in honor of Diane L-S Hewat, 2021.
Notes
Acquired with an accompanying impression of the steel engraving executed by Charles Mottram after George Cruikshank's painting the Worship of Bacchus, entitled the Worship of Bacchus, or The drinking customs of society (London : William Tweedle, June 20, 1864) (see 2021.80).
Library's copy has been backed with linen, folded, and pasted into a binding of red cloth.
Description
1 folded sheet (1 page) ; 52 x 65 cm ; folded to 26 x 22.5 cm
Summary
Item provides an explanation of Cruikshank's the "Worship of Bacchus" in a number of textual passages laid out on a single sheet to correspond to the lay-out and composition of the painting.
Binding
Red cloth boards backed in red morocco.
Classification
Department