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Law / JT [monogram].

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John Tenniel
1820-1914

Law / JT [monogram].

[London? : s.n., 1864?]
wood engraving
image: 62 x 70 mm; sheet: 102 x 119 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1022
Notes
Wood engraved proof of a cartoon by Tenniel for "Punch's pocket book for 1864."
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Cartoon shows a stage with footlights where lawyers are being pelted with vegetables, fish and "bill(s) of cost" while a clown leaps on the back of one of their number.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography

Reproduced in: Artist of Wonderland : the life, political cartoons, and illustrations of John Tenniel / Frankie Morris. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005, p. 166.

Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints