Counting Her Chicks!
Drawing
1876 (drawn)
1876 (drawn)
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Drawing
Object details
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| Title | Counting Her Chicks! (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Counting Her Chicks!' Sketch for a political cartoon in `Punch', 1876, by Sir John Tenniel |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed with the monogram JT |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt Sherborne Gallery, Dec.1971 £15'. |
| Historical context | Reproduced in `Punch' 8 July 1876, p.7. The British fleet was ordered to Besika Bay on the coast of Turkey, to protect the English residents in Constantinople and assert British interests in the Mediterranean. For further information on the events satirised by Tenniel, see Searight Archive. |
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| Accession number | SD.1020 |
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| Record created | April 9, 2008 |
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