Pleasing pastime, or, A Christmas quadrille party [graphic]

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Title: Pleasing pastime, or, A Christmas quadrille party [graphic]
Alternative Title: Christmas quadrille party
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: 1826.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: "Four men skating, colliding with each other in a mangle, one of them about to fall head first into a whole in the ice, holding a man's skate with his right hand and another's coat with his left, his right foots hitting the man who's coat he is holding on the forehead, this man in turn hits another's nose; a sing of 'Dangerous' to the left, and other figures on the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text above and below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 26 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1826
Etchings England London 1826
Aquatints England London 1826
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman 1825
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Ice skating
Accidents
Subjects: Ice skating
Accidents
England > 1826
England > London > 1826
J Whatman > 1825

Access: Public
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