Title:
(The Fiends Frying Pan)
Creator/Contributor:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British
Date:
ca. 1832
Identifier:
1989.21.1612
Format:
Drawing
Pen and brown ink and graphite
Notes:
Drawing for plate 3, number IV of Cruikshank's self-published serial, "Scraps and Sketches" (1989.21.1490).
Inscription: Recto, in ink, "Original sketch," "Bartholomew Fair or the Fiends Frying Pan," and "George Cruikshank" at u.l.;
several annotations in pencil
Provenance: Eldridge R. Johnson (Parke-Bernet, New York, October 29, 1946, Part V, No. 143); Childs Gallery, Boston; Richard
A. Vogler, Los Angeles
Subject:
devils; figures (representations); animals