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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.151
People
George Cruikshank, British (London, England 1792 - 1878 London, England)
Title
Ignorance is Bliss
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Scraps and Sketches, plate 3
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
May 20, 1828
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/333539

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on chine collé
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
chine collé: 24.3 × 31.5 cm (9 9/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
plate: 27.6 × 37.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
sheet: 32.5 × 41.8 cm (12 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: all a blowing! all a growing / (designed etched & Published by Geo.r Cruikshank May 20th 1828 - )
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: A jolly companion -
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Tooth! Powder -
  • inscription: center, in plate: What is Taxes Thomas?!! / I'm sure I don't Know! / - "Ignorance is bliƒs" -
  • inscription: upper left, in plate: why I say Jim / arn't you a / gooing [sic] out with / Jack & the Green?!! / No, Master says as / how, it's werry low - / year all a going to / dine with the masters & / miƒsus's at Vite Condic / House. / Gentility! -
  • inscription: upper center, in plate: Broldignag Bonnet -
  • inscription: upper left, in plate: Hallo! Jack / ware [sic] / are you a going to? / oh! why I'm / a going to a cosart [sic] / at the Argyle Rooms! / "Now that, I heard" -
  • inscription: loewr left, blue ink: 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
JB Neumann, probably before 1932, bequest; to Elsa Schmid Neumann, his wife, and Peter Neumann, his son, 1961, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2009

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Reid 1459; Cohn (1924) 180

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter G. and Elizabeth S. Neumann
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.151
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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