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Steamed out or The starving stage-coachman and boys
(1847)
plate 11 from The Comic Almanack for 1847, published by David Bogue, London
Medium
etching
Measurements
8.2 × 13.6 cm (image) 10.2 × 15.3 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Cohn 184; Reid 2401
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: George Cruikshank
printed in ink l.c.: STEAMED OUT, / or the Starving Stage-Coachman and Boys.
printed in ink (in image) u.c.-u.r.: Ladies & Gents! I am werry sorry to turn out in this here shabby manner, but you / see I’ve been knocked off my perch – druve off the Road ! & no mistake – vith all these here / “ Boys” about me & not vun on’em as can yerne a livelihood – Ladies & Gents! My Drag / & the Boy’s Shayses, & I may say, the whole consann has been regularly smashed / by them Railway chaps ; so, pray remember the Coachman –
printed in ink (in image) c.r.: TO THE RAILWAY
Accession Number
4294.14-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Labour, Industry and Machinery
Subjects (specific)
cartoons (humorous images) coachmen railroad bridges railroads (infrastructure) trains (vehicle groupings) unemployment whips (striking tools)
Movements
Victorian