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Ladies in the Air

Maker (British, 1792-1878)
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Dateca.1850
Mediumpencil and watercolor
Dimensionssheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (15.9 x 24.2 cm.) image: 3 1/4 x 6 in. (8.3 x 15.2 cm.) mat: 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm.)
SignedSignature; George Cruikshank
InscribedInscribed: [above] Here would be a sight for a father !!! ]below} High flown airs & graces-- What it must come to if the Ladies go on blowing/ themselves out as they do-- Comic Alk. 1850/ --original sketch
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gilbert Davis Collection
Status
Not on view
Object number59.55.389
Terms
    Ladies Ears Bored, Gratis
    Isaac Cruikshank
    1793
    Object number: 71.79.40
    Lady Blown into the Air with a Parasol
    Charles Altamont Doyle
    n.d.
    Object number: 74.17.103
    Edward Francis Burney
    n.d.
    Object number: 91.282.6
    Three Ladies Promenading
    William Edward Frost
    n.d.
    Object number: 66.34
    Two Young Ladies
    William Locke II
    n.d.
    Object number: 59.55.870
    Two Ladies
    Francis Cotes
    n.d.
    Object number: 63.52.51
    Five Ladies at Tea
    Reginald Cleaver
    n.d.
    Object number: 71.36
    Frontispiece with a Lady and Cupid
    Robert Cruikshank
    n.d.
    Object number: 70.83
    Second Day of Creation, Air and Water
    Unknown, British
    ca. 1870
    Object number: 2000.5.1537E
    Air
    Unknown
    ca. 1750
    Object number: 22.32
    Sketch for Comic Almanack
    George Cruikshank
    n.d.
    Object number: 000.93A