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Mr. Simmons in the Character of Mother Goose, frontispiece to Fairburn's Description of the Popular and Comic New Pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or the Golden Egg

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Title: Mr. Simmons in the Character of Mother Goose, frontispiece to Fairburn's Description of the Popular and Comic New Pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or the Golden Egg
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; John Fairburn, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1806
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: George Cruikshank's cataloger, Albert M. Cohn, suggests this unsigned frontispiece is the artist's earliest unassisted etching. The frontispiece is for a small pamphlet describing and critiquing the 1806 comic pantomime by Thomas Dibdin performed at Covent Garden.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 4598; Douglas 315; Cohn 280
Provenance: R.J.H. Douglas; Albert M. Cohn; William H. Woodin; Marshall R. Anspach; Richard A. Vogler, Los Angeles
Type: image
Format: Pamphlet Etching with hand coloring
Form/Genre: Pamphlet
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8b69p208
1989.21.1932
Subject: Actors; costumes; Mother Goose; geese

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