Request to view

This object can be requested via email from the Prints & Drawings Study Room

The sagacious Dog.

Print
1836-1837 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching for Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club signed by the artist and inscribed with page number, depicting a dog looking at a sign by an animal enclosure, with a man in top hat leaning against a fence, holding a shotgun.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe sagacious Dog. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Etched illustration to Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Robert Semour, 1836-1837.
Physical description
Etching for Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club signed by the artist and inscribed with page number, depicting a dog looking at a sign by an animal enclosure, with a man in top hat leaning against a fence, holding a shotgun.
Dimensions
  • Etched surface height: 11.4cm
Dimensions taken from departmental micromedia catalogue.
Subjects depicted
Association
Literary references
  • <i>The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club</i> by Charles Dickens
  • <i>The Pickwick Papers</i> by Charles Dickens
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Taken from departmental micromedia catalogue.
Collection
Accession number
E.824-1972

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
Download as: JSONIIIF Manifest