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Caricatures, Six Framed Examples. Including: Rowlandson's John Bull at the Italian Opera, 1881, hand-colored etching; Principal Characters in the Comic Pantomime of Harlequin and the Red Dwarf, London: West, 1818, hand-colored etching; George Cruikshank's Pit Boxes & Gallery, [1834], hand-colored etching; Theodore Lane's Theatrical Pleasures, Pt. 1, Crowding the Pit, London, 1821; Cruikshank's Kings Place & Chandos Street in an Uproar, London, 1809, hand-colored etching; [and] Acting Magistrates Committing Themselves, Being their First Appearance on this Stage as performed at the National Theatre Covent Garden, 1809, matted and framed with a New Covent Garden Theatre token dated 1809. (6)
Estimate $200-300
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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