Smith Your Wife's in the Boxes!
Print
ca. 1844 (published)
ca. 1844 (published)
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A man wearing brigand-style costume, the cap in black and yellow brim and red tassell, collar and bow in scarlet, trousers dark green with red side stripe and bold cummerbund, dancing with a child wearing Romantic Ballet sylphide costume, with palest pink bodice and peacock-eye wings, the low waist accented with a trail of blue convulvulus and a rose wreath on her ringleted hair; she wears white gloves, a bold gold bracelet and a sweetly knowing smile. Titled below: "Smith Your Wife's in the Boxes!" and above "Alfred Crowquills sketches from Jullien's Bal Masque". Colour lithograph drawn and lithographed by Alfred Crowquill, printed M & N Hanhart.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Smith Your Wife's in the Boxes! |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | 'Smith your wife's in the boxes!' Alfred Crowquill's sketches from Jullien's Bal Masque. Colour lithograph by Alfred Crowquill, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by E. Sidebetham, ca.1844 |
| Physical description | A man wearing brigand-style costume, the cap in black and yellow brim and red tassell, collar and bow in scarlet, trousers dark green with red side stripe and bold cummerbund, dancing with a child wearing Romantic Ballet sylphide costume, with palest pink bodice and peacock-eye wings, the low waist accented with a trail of blue convulvulus and a rose wreath on her ringleted hair; she wears white gloves, a bold gold bracelet and a sweetly knowing smile. Titled below: "Smith Your Wife's in the Boxes!" and above "Alfred Crowquills sketches from Jullien's Bal Masque". Colour lithograph drawn and lithographed by Alfred Crowquill, printed M & N Hanhart. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | "12/6" (Reverse lower left hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil; Unknown) |
| Credit line | Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest |
| Object history | The print came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest. |
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| Accession number | S.304-2000 |
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| Record created | January 31, 2001 |
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