Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, mounted on thick, smooth, light blue card
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 × 11 5/8 inches (40.6 × 29.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on mount, lower center: "Proposal for a Happy New Year | Mr. Punch "GOODBYE! A Happy New Year to you! - (In Melipotamus)" | 1850 | See back. | "Please Mr. Bishop, which is Popery, and which is Puseyism? | Papal aggression 1851."; in black ink, on mount, lower left: "With best wishes for happy hunting | to Edward Perry Rich | frin | Wm. St. Mc Carthy dr. (?) | 11/13/55."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2009.9.205
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
Puseyism | religious and mythological subject | pope | churches | men | conflict | gesture | bishops | proposal | sketches | caricature | top hat | New Year | holiday