Printed Scraps
late 19th century (made)
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Chain of connected 19th century printed scraps, after George Cruikshank
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| Brief description | Chain of connected 19th century printed scraps, after George Cruikshank |
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| Credit line | Given by Alicia Robinson |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpts are from Rickards, M. and Twyman, M. (2001). The encyclopedia of ephemera. New York: Routledge:
"The colourful decorative cut-outs, known in Britain as chromo-reliefs or scraps, had their origins in Germany in the earlier part of the 19th century...
Their popularity as juvenile collectibles spread rapidly, extending to the whole of Europe and America, and forming one aspect of the wave of German chromolithography that dominated the rest of the century...
The first scraps were not cut-outs. They were simply printed pictures and were sold as multi-image sheets for cutting out with scissors.
Many scraps appeared in series form such as a set of thirty sheets by George Cruikshank, published in 1830 under the general title, 'Scraps and Sketches'." |
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| Accession number | E.119-2018 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2018 |
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