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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 January 1826]
- Call Number:
- 826.01.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fourteen small children amuse themselves uproariously in a small space. Four little girls in party-dresses, dance holding hands round a lady who tosses an infant; two of them hold up dolls. A fat and grinning cook stands in the doorway with a tray of jelly-glasses, cake, and fruit. The biggest boy rides a rocking-horse, giving a view-hallo; another boy with an overturned chair for horses, drives in a professional manner a high-slung rectangular cradle (left) in which sits a little girl holding a doll and an open umbrella. A little boy with a wooden sword tries to storm a table, defended by two others, with drum, trumpet, and Union Jack. These children are dressed up to suit their parts. In the foreground (right) two children build a card-house on the floor, with skipping-rope, toy soldiers, and horse and cart beside them. On the left are a top and whip, and an Eaton Latin Grammar. On the wall is pinned a caricature of Dr Syntax [see BM Satires 11507, &c] with birch-rod and book."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Masters & Misses Twoshoes Christmas party and Masters and Misses Twoshoes Christmas party
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Imprint date altered in mss. to 1825.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 3d 1826 by S. Knights Sweetings Alley Royl. X'Change
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "At home" in the nursery, or, The Masters & Misses Twoshoes Christmas party [graphic]