Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

"Flying Artillery"

George Cruikshank
1792-1878

"Flying Artillery"

9 15/16x 6 3/8 inches (253 x 163 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over pencil, on paper.
1976.26:3

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan.

Notes
Watermark: none.
One of eight designs for M.H. Barker's "Greenwich Hospital", London, 1826, facing page 45.
Formerly bound into the De Forest copy of the first edition.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pen and black ink at lower left, "George Cruikshank"; inscribed by the artist above design, "Sketch for Capt.n Barkers Greenwich Hospital".
Associated names
De Forest, George Beach, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department