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Highest life in London: Tom and Jerry ‘sporting a toe’ among the Corinthians at Almacks in the West

Highest life in London: Tom and Jerry ‘sporting a toe’ among the Corinthians at Almacks in the West
 1821
plate 24 from Life in London by Pierce Egan, published by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London, 1821

Medium
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Measurements
11.3 × 18.9 cm (image) 15.1 × 23.7 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 14342; Cohn 262; Reid 4755, 5102
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: Drawn & Engraved by I.R & G. Cruikshank.
printed in ink l.l-l.r.: HIGHEST LIFE IN LONDON. Tom & Jerry, “Sporting a Toe,” among the Corinthians, at / Almacks in the West.
printed in ink l.c.: Pub.d (d in superscript above . ) by Sherwood, Neely & Jones May 1 1821.
Accession Number
3345L-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1956
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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Gallery location
Not on display