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Scorpio: The slanderer

Scorpio: The slanderer
(1846)
plate 10 from The Comic Almanack for 1846, published by David Bogue, London

Medium
etching

Measurements
8.4 × 13.8 cm (image) 9.8 × 15.0 cm (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 2373

Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: George Cruikshank
printed in ink l.c.: SCORPIO _ The Slanderer _ “I could a tale unfold.”
printed in ink (in image) (on scorpian’s tail) c.l.: SLANDER THE DEADLY LIE

Accession Number
4294.22-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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