As It Ought to Be or The Ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a "Breach of Promise" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

George Cruikshank

Title

As It Ought to Be or The Ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a "Breach of Promise" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1850

Medium

Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Dimensions

Primary support: 16.1 × 41.2 cm (6 3/8 × 16 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 25.2 × 50.7 cm (9 15/16 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.4847.61

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