A family is about to return from their holiday in a London townhouse. Etching by George Cruikshank after S.K.
- Date:
- Augt. 1st 1835
- Reference:
- 28986i
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"The moment of departure. The mother, seated by the fire (left), sadly and affectionately admonishes the younger girl, who weeps at her knee, clasping a doll. The little boy howls, both fists to his eyes. The elder girl, in hat and fur tippet, sits dejectedly on a corded trunk with a melancholy dog at her feet, while the black footman, in unrestrained grief, carries a bandbox and a small arched coffer to the door. The windows, above their green slatted blinds, show that the house is in a London square. The cockatoo mopes, a cat sulks on the hearth-rug. An erection of wax flowers under a glass dome is Victorian in character."--M. Dorothy George in the British Museum catalogue, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
London (26, Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, Augt. 1st 1835.
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 22.3 x 27 cm
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Lettering
Black Monday - or the end of the holidays. S.K.invt. G. Cruikshank fect.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. X, London 1952, no. 15189 (different publisher and date)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 28986i
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"S.K." is unidentified
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