Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker’s Collection of Drawings, Etc., Etc., Etc.,

George Cruikshank1868

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Title: Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker’s Collection of Drawings, Etc., Etc., Etc.,
Creator: George Cruikshank
Date Created: 1868
Subject Keywords: art, art collecting, collectors, connoisseurship, print collecting, print viewing, satire, social satire
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Designed and etched by/George Cruikshank/1868”; title inscribed in plate below image, center; inscribed below title, center: “‘That Virtuoso Whim/Which consecrates our dim/Long-ago.’/Locker’s London Lyrics”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of Juwil C. and Virgil W. Topazio (B.A. Wesleyan 1943), 1984
Materials & Techniques: Etching printed in brown ink on chine collé on heavyweight wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published as frontispiece to “The Rowland Library. A catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, drawings, and Pictures, Collected by Frederick Locker-Lampson” (London, Bernard Quartch, 1886)
Dimensions: 1878
Bibliography: Cohn 498
Associated People: Created by George Cruikshank (British (English), 1792-1878)
Accession Number: 1984.29.46

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