An Extraordinary Movement in China or an alteration in "The willow pattern" - at last!.
Primary Artist
George Cruikshank (1792–1878)
Title
An Extraordinary Movement in China or an alteration in "The willow pattern" - at last!.
Source
The comic almanack by Rigdum Funnidos, London: David Bogue, 1853
Page or Plate number
plate 4.
Reference
Cohn (1924), 184
Date made
1853
Place made
Europe, England, Greater London, London View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in black ink, from one steel plate; subsequently hand-coloured
Matrix size
9.9 x 15.9 cm (plate-mark)
Support
wove paper
Support size
12.4 x 18.8 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression with later hand-colouring
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject description
Caricature of a multitude of Chinese people (many with ceramic teapots as heads' travelling from China to the gold fields of California and Australia.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
42246
Accession number
86.611
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 6, 1985/86 (1986-02-11)
Provenance
Purchased from Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 11 February 1986.
Credit line
Purchased from Gallery admission charges 1986
Subject category
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Caricature
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Cruikshank, George. | (1792–1878) English | Male | artist
Last Updated
04 Jan 2013