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Nashional Taste!!!

Satirical Print
7 April 1824 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching depicting a caricature of John Nash, architect, impaled on a church spire surrounded by flying birds.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleNashional Taste!!! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured etching
Brief description
George Cruikshank. 'Nashional Taste!!!' Caricature of John Nash impaled on a church steeple. Published London, 7 April 1824
Physical description
Etching depicting a caricature of John Nash, architect, impaled on a church spire surrounded by flying birds.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.75in
  • Width: 9.75in
Marks and inscriptions
NASHIONAL TASTE!!! Dedicated without permission, to the Church Commissioners Providence sends meat, Parliament sends Funds— The Devil sends cooks— But, who sends the Architects?—!!!
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1943, London: HMSO, 1956.
  • A.M. Cohn. George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonné . . . 1806-1877. London, 1924.
  • British Museum, Catalogue of Politicial and Personal Satires [c.1320-1832] London, 1870-1954.
Collection
Accession number
E.526-1943

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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