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The Print Room at the British Museum

ca. 1828
19th century

George Cruikshank, British (English), (1792–1878)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching

Series: from Catalogue Raisonné of the Select Collection of Engravings of an Amateur

Edition: From Catalogue Raisonné of the Select Collection of Engravings of an Amateur, by John Wilson (published London, 1828)

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Howard Mansfield?

Bibliography: Cohn 854, p. 242.

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1940

Accession Number: 1940.D1.68

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art*, art collecting, collectors, museums*, print collecting, satire*, social satire

art - Use with reference to the study or practice of the fine arts or the fine and decorative arts together. With reference to the visual and performing arts together, use "arts." For actual works or objects of the fine or decorative arts, use "works of art" or "art objects." [November 1994 related term added. March 1991 scope note changed.]
art collecting
collectors
museums - Use for buildings, groups of buildings, or spaces within buildings where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artifacts are housed and displayed. [March 1993 related terms added. April 1991 related te
print collecting
satire - Artistic device holding up human folly and vice to scorn, derision, or ridicule. [November 1994 scope note added; related term added; alternate term added. May 1994 related term added.]
social satire

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George Cruikshank, British (English), (1792–1878) . The Print Room at the British Museum, ca. 1828. From Catalogue Raisonné of the Select Collection of Engravings of an Amateur. Etching. : mm (in.). DAC accession number 1940.D1.68. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1940. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: T. Rodriguez) .

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