"Crinolina" - and the Consequences [recto]

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

"Crinolina" - and the Consequences [recto]

George Cruikshank

Date
1865
Medium
pen and black ink with watercolor and scratching-out (around the ghosts' eyes on the right) on wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 24.3 x 32.2 cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.) mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1996.5.1.a
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • Fantasy
  • Horse
  • fables and legends
  • secular
  • Death on a Pale Horse
Provenance

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

Inscription

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

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