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The First Shilling Day–Going In
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The First Shilling Day–Going In

Medium

Etching

Tags

Dimensions

Plate: 5 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (14 × 22 cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 11/16 in. (31.8 × 50 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About George Cruikshank

1792–1878United Kingdom

Artist famous for his political cartoons and prolific book illustrations. In his later career he made moral narratives in woodcut, especially in regards to the temperance movement. Cruikshank was also an actor. Comment on works: caricaturist