Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's Collection of Drawings, 1868

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Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 25.7 x 17.3 cm (10 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

Accession Number

1989.28.8

Artists / Makers

George Cruikshank (artist) British, 1792 - 1878

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Designed & Etched by / George Cruikshank / 1868; lower center in plate: Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's / Collection of Drawings / "That Virtuoso Whim / Which consecrates our dim / Long-ago." / Locker's London Lyrics

Bibliography

1959: Reproduced in NGA RESEARCH REPORTS AND RECORD OF ACTIVITIES, CENTER 9, frontispiece.