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George Cruikshank (etcher)
J. Sidebotham (draughtsman)
The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying stones at the time his numerous family want bread!! (1816)
hand-coloured etching
20.3 × 32.5 cm (image) 22.2 × 34.1 cm (plate) 28.5 × 37.8 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
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The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying stones at the time his numerous family want bread!!
(1816)
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.3 × 32.5 cm (image) 22.2 × 34.1 cm (plate) 28.5 × 37.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 12787; Cohn 1086; Reid 565
Printing/Publishing
published by J. Sidebotham, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying Stones at the time his numerous Family want Bread !!
printed in ink (in image) u.c.-l.r.: (text in speech bubbles and printed on leaflets)
Accession Number
1288-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Monuments and Memorials
Subjects (specific)
antiquities (object genre) cartoons (humorous images) costs families (kinship groups) hunger statues
Movements
Regency (British)