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

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

[Street scene featuring clown and shop fronts] / JT [monogram].

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John Tenniel
1820-1914

[Street scene featuring clown and shop fronts] / JT [monogram].

[London? : s.n., ca. 18--]
wood engraving
image: 63 x 71 mm; sheet: 88 x 114 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1021
Notes
Wood engraved proof of a cartoon by Tenniel for an unidentified issue of Punch.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Cartoon shows a stage with footlights, shopfronts, and a crowded street scene featuring a clown holding a goose behind his back and bowing to a street vendor who balances a basket of poultry on her head and extends her hand as she demands payment from him; at right, Pantalone prepares to shake hands with a large turtle.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints