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Print, admission-ticket (BM 1873,0510.2662)

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Print, admission-ticket (BM 1873,0510.2662)

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Admission ticket to a performance organised by the Guild of Literature and Art, with figure representing the painter Richard Wilson at left, taking a painting to a pawn shop, and at right figure representing Daniel Defoe, with a manuscript of 'Robinson Crusoe' in his pocket, leaving the office of the publisher Edmund Curll with a sad expression on his face, met by his worried wife and daughter; books and pallette with paintbrushes lying in foreground; after Ward. 1851
Mixed method, including etching, aquatint and engraving, on chine collé

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1851
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British Museum
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