Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840-1860
Title:
The comic history of the Russian war [graphic] / poetically & pictorially described by Percy Cruikshank.
Published / Created:
London : Read & Co., Johnson's, Fleet St., [1857]
Physical Description:
36 pictures on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 246 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 14 cm
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Title and imprint from cover. Cover illustrations are chromolithographs.

Each of 36 scenes contains eight lines of verse and a caricature of the subject.

Date of publication from Abbey.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 605

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original pictorial boards.
Subject Terms:
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Crimean War, 1853–1856 -- Pictorial works. | Panoramas -- Specimens. | Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Form/Genre:
Panoramas -- England. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857. | Chromolithographs -- 1857. | Accordion fold format (Binding)
Contributors:
Read & Co., publisher.