Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's Collection of Drawings

1868

George Cruikshank

Artist, British, 1792 - 1878

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 25.7 x 17.3 cm (10 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.28.8

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1959

  • Reproduced in NGA RESEARCH REPORTS AND RECORD OF ACTIVITIES, CENTER 9, frontispiece.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Designed & Etched by / George Cruikshank / 1868; lower center in plate: Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's / Collection of Drawings / "That Virtuoso Whim / Which consecrates our dim / Long-ago." / Locker's London Lyrics

Wikidata ID

Q74882464

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