"Taking Care of Number One" or A Gentleman Endeavoring to Keep "Number One" Out of "St Pauls Church Yard" 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

"Taking Care of Number One" or A Gentleman Endeavoring to Keep "Number One" Out of "St Pauls Church Yard" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1853

Medium

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

Dimensions

Primary support: 19.9 × 16.2 cm (7 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 25.4 cm (13 5/8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.4847.72

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