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Pisces: Too deep!

Pisces: Too deep!
(1846)
plate 2 from The Comic Almanack for 1846, published by David Bogue, London

Medium
etching

Measurements
14.5 × 9.8 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Cohn 184; Reid 2365

Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: George Cruikshank
printed in ink l.c.: PISCES _ Too deep!
printed in ink (in speech bubble) u.c.: I wonder why the Fish don’t bite, / If they were as hungry as I am / they would bite fast enough
printed in ink (in speech bubble) c.l.-l.c. Don’t you wish / you may cath us-? / (seven more remarks from fish)
printed in ink (on shop front) u.l.: Gentlemens Fish / Cooked Here / T. FISHER

Accession Number
4294.21-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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