[Westminster frolics] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Westminster frolics] [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Published / Created: [1825]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Abstract: A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. See British Museum catalogue
Description: Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
For published state see: No. 15204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 76, Vol. 2. Watermark 1825.
Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1825.
Provenance: With a stamp on verso: From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz, "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 44. Marlborough Rare Books; April 2016.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 23.0 x 30 cm
Edition: [Proof before aquatint and lettering].
Language: English

Genre: Trial proofs
Caricatures
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman Turkey Mill 1825
Etchings England 1825
Satires (Visual works) England 1825
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Boys
Fear
Couples
School children
Watchmen
Subjects: Boys
Fear
Couples
School children
Watchmen
J Whatman Turkey Mill > 1825
England > 1825

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