George Cruikshank

Sketchbook

n.d.
Sketchbook with 16 leaves and 34 pages (including endpapers) of drawings in graphite, many with watercolor, pen and ink or gouache, on cream wove paper, with additional drawings on wove and laid papers tipped in, bound with worn calf-covered boards and in a red levant morocco slip case lined in red watered silk
12.5 × 20.6 cm (4.9 × 8.1 in)

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