Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, blue card
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 × 11 1/2 inches (40.6 × 29.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "Hello! this is [...] more | I swear(?) to bed with"; lower center: "Pin for your scarf Sir - you Sir - here's an | article we're selling a j[...] many of-"; on mount, center left: "Shakespeare a little altered | "He lived not wisely but | too well""; on mount, lower center: "A Fashion in 1845 | "A Pin for your scarf, Sir? Heres an Article we have | Sold a great many of."; on mount, lower right: "Hablot K. Brown or Cruikshank? C. Denison"; on back of mount, lower right: "225"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2009.9.206
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
selling | men | humor | satire | parody | fashion | store | top hat | caricature | genre subject | umbrella | merchant | nose | resting | injury