An Old Offender
Drawing
1894 (drawn)
1894 (drawn)
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Drawing
Object details
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| Title | An Old Offender (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, `An Old Offender'. Sketch for a political cartoon in `Punch', 1894, by Sir John Tenniel |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed with the monogram JT. Dated 1894 |
| 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 Christie's, Jan. 28th 1971, £23:2/-[shillings]'. |
| Historical context | Reproduced in `Punch' 15 December 1894, p.283. The cartoon alludes to the threat of European action against Sultan Abdul Hamid whose persistent massacres of Armenians aroused Gladstone's attempt to invoke the Treaty of Berlin. For further information on the events satirised by Tenniel, see Searight Archive. |
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| Accession number | SD.1034 |
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| Record created | April 9, 2008 |
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