Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840-1860, The comic history of the Russian war, [1857]
- Title(s):
- The comic history of the Russian war [graphic] / poetically & pictorially described by Percy Cruikshank.
- Published/Created:
- London : Read & Co., Johnson's, Fleet St., [1857]
- Physical Description:
- 36 pictures on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 246 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 14 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDK509 .C78 1857Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3296571
- Classification:
- Prints
- Notes:
- Title and imprint from cover. Cover illustrations are chromolithographs.
Each of 36 scenes contains eight lines of verse and a caricature of the subject.
Date of publication from Abbey.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 605
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original pictorial boards. - Subject Terms:
- Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.Crimean War, 1853–1856 -- Pictorial works.Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.Panoramas -- Specimens.
- Form/Genre:
- Panoramas -- England.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857.
Chromolithographs -- 1857.
Accordion fold format (Binding) - Export:
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