"Taking the Air" in Hyde Park [verso], 1865

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1996.5.1.b

Artists / Makers

George Cruikshank (artist) British, 1792 - 1878

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in pen and brown ink: "Taking the Air" in Hyde Park / Fashions of 1865; lower center verso in graphite: -"Crinolina"- and the Consequences.; lower right verso in pen and black ink: Geo Cruikshank.

Provenance

(sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 November 1995, lot 87); purchased (via Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox) by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 138, as "Crinolina" - and the Consequences.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.