Modern Ballooning, or the Newest Phase of Folly from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

George Cruikshank

Title

Modern Ballooning, or the Newest Phase of Folly from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

Place

England (Artist's nationality)

Date

Made 1851

Medium

Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)

Dimensions

Primary support: 20.6 × 16.3 cm (8 1/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 25.1 cm (13 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.4847.66

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