George Cruikshank
1792-1878
Tom, Jerry, & Logic Masquerading it. Verso: Sketch of a beaver
ca. 1821
4 9/16 x 7 5/16 inches (115 x 187 mm)
Watercolor and graphite, on paper.
1986.2061
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Drawing by Cruikshank for an illustration for chapter X of Pierce Egan's Life in London (London : Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821); apparently an unused design, as the chapter includes a variant illustration with the published caption reading, "Tom and Jerry larking at a masquerade supper at the Opera House.
Drawing by Cruikshank for an illustration for chapter X of Pierce Egan's Life in London (London : Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821); apparently an unused design, as the chapter includes a variant illustration with the published caption reading, "Tom and Jerry larking at a masquerade supper at the Opera House.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil at lower left; with caption in pencil reading, "Tom Jerry & Logic Masquerading it".
Summary
Drawing shows a crowd of costumed revelers at a masquerade, with the figure of Jerry at far left, dressed as a huntsman and brandishing his whip at a man in a devil costume, while Tom, dressed as Don Giovanni, stands in the center of the design, arm in arm with two women, one of whom is dressed as a nun. With a pencil line sketch of a beaver on verso of sheet.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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