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Keen-ish sport in Cox's court!! or, Symptoms of crim. con in Drury Lane, May 1824 Cox fecit [i.e....
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Keen-ish sport in Cox's court!! or, Symptoms of crim. con in Drury Lane, May 1824 Cox fecit [i.e. George Cruikshank].
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ART
230-
995
(size
M)
–
Trimmed
within
platemark
.
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
Title
Keen-ish
sport
in
Cox's
court!
! or,
Symptoms
of
crim
.
con
in
Drury
Lane
,
May
1824
Cox
fecit
[i.e
.
George
Cruikshank]
.
Place of creation or publication
Great Britain-England-London.
London :
Publisher
Pubd
. by
J
.
Fairburn
,
Broadway
,
Ludgate
Hill
,
Date
May
1824
.
Physical description
1
print
:
hand-colored
etching
;
image
214
x
324
mm
.
Notes
The
British
Museum
attributes
this
print
to
George
Cruikshank
(see
online
catalogue)
.
Published references
British
Museum
collection
database
,
[via
www
,
Aug
.
31
2009];George
vol
.
X
,
pp
.
449-50
,
no
.
14710
Summary
Mrs
.
Cox
, in
deÌ
colleteÌ
e
evening
dress
with
roses
in her
hair
,
sits
on a
sofa
with
Kean
on her
lap
. He
wears
slashed
doublet
and
trunk
hose
. He
holds
a
glass
of
brandy
; on a
table
(left)
a
decanter
of
Brandy
, with a
second
glass
,
stands
on a
play-bill
:
Theatre
[Royal]
Drury
[Lane]
. A
bold
Stroke
for A
Husband
[Mrs
.
Cowley
,
1783]
with the
Devil
to
Pay
[Coffey
,
1731]
. On the
sofa
are a
pile
of
150
Love
Letters
; a
book
,
Ovids
Art
of
Love
; a
paper
,
Cox
and
Co
.
Above
Mrs
.
Cox's
head
is
a
picture
,
Europa
and the
Bull
, a
nude
woman
astride
the
bull
. On the
right
is
a
sash-window
reaching
to the
floor
.
Through
this
stares
Cox
; on his
head
are
bull's
horns
and
huge
antlers
. He
wears
his
alderman's
chain
, and
holds
a
letter
. In
front
of the
window
two
cats
caterwaul
angrily
at
each
other.--Adapted
from
George
.
Subject
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, depicted.
Cox, Robert Albion, 1772?-1826, depicted.
Cox, Charlotte, 18th/19th cent., depicted.
Actors – 19th century, depicted.
Genre - Form
Prints – 19th century.
Caricatures – 19th century.
Associated name
Fairburn, John, publisher.
OCLC number
436765021
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