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Taking the census
(1851)
plate 3 from The Comic Almanack for 1851, published by David Bogue, London
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 8.5 × 15.0 cm (image) 10.3 × 16.9 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Cohn 184; Reid 2527
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.l.: George Cruikshank
printed in ink l.c.: TAKING THE CENSUS
printed in ink (in image) u.l.: What! not / made out / the list yet?!
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: Why, no: it is’mt such an ez matter as you may think for; However, let me see; there’s, / John & Tom & Bill & Susan & Harry & Sarah & Dick & Eliza & George & Septimus & Peter / & Jane & Augustus & Decimus & Charles & Betsey & Harriet & Rebecca & Emma & Bob & / James & Anne & David & the two Gran’Mothers & Father & Mother & My Wife’s Father & Mother & / aunt Lizzy & aunt Hannah & aunt Carry & Cousin Amelia & Cousin Fanny & Uncle Edward & / & Cousin Alfred & the three nurses, two Housemaids, / the Cook & the boy &- &-&- hang me if I can / recollect em all so’its no use / to try!
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: John, dear! don’t / forget the two babbies!
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) c.l.: Census / Males / Females - Accession Number
- 4294.15-3
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Miss Archibald, 1930
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Humour and Satire Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- cartoons (humorous images) censusing children (people by age group) families (kinship groups)
- Movements
- Victorian
