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A Long Headed Assembly! !

Print
26/09/1806 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Caricature of a fashionable card party and ball. Lettered with title and dialogue within the design.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Long Headed Assembly! ! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching, coloured by hand
Brief description
'A Long Headed Assembly! !' Caricature of a fashionable card party and ball. Hand-coloured etching by Isaac Cruikshank after George Woodward, 1806.
Physical description
Caricature of a fashionable card party and ball. Lettered with title and dialogue within the design.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.5cm
  • Width: 33.3cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1954 London: HMSO 1963
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Woodward. del Cruikshank Sp. Published by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside Sepr 26. 1806' (Lettered with title, dialogue within the design and)
  • 'Plate 5' (Numbered)
Credit line
Given by Mr S. R. Troy
Object history
BM:S states that an impression belonging to Mr. W. T. Spencer is autographed "Etched by my father I Cruikshank, the little figures in the background by me G.C."
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1954 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection
Accession number
E.280-1954

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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