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Advice to those about to marry – buy cheap furniture

Advice to those about to marry – buy cheap furniture
(1852)
plate 4 from The Comic Almanack for 1852, published by David Bogue, London

Medium
etching
Measurements
8.5 × 14.7 cm (image) 9.8 × 16.0 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Cohn 184; Reid 2548
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: Advice “To those about to marry”- buy - cheap- Furniture -
Accession Number
4294.13-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Furniture Humour and Satire Relationships and Interactions
Subjects (specific)
breaking cartoons (humorous images) chairs (furniture forms) couples dining tables marriage (social construct) spouses
Movements
Victorian