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George Cruikshank.
Personifications of Time: preliminary sketches for the etched series "Illustrations of Time."
[London, 1824-27.]
Acquired in part through the Kenyon Law Starling Fund.
A portfolio of ten leaves containing captioned drawings in pencil, pen, and ink wash, some humorous, on the subject of time. For example, "Time to be off " shows a departing young man retreating from a crockery-throwing wife. The finished book, published in 1827, contained an engraved title page and six sheets of the drawings (reproduced as etchings). It proved to be one of the master caricaturist's more popular publications and was frequently reissued in succeeding decades. |
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