DETAILS
- Artist
- Isaac Cruikshank
- Date
- 1803
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Plate: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (35 × 24.8 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
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