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What is Whisky?

Maker

(artist)
1861-1945

Title

What is Whisky?

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 18.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5266

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre margin, printed: PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.--FEBRUARY 26, 1908.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: WHAT IS WHISKY? / LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD (Chairman of the Royal Commission on Whisky):-- / "BE THOU A SPIRIT OF HEALTH OR GOBLIN DAMN'D... / THOU COM'ST IN SUCH A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE / THAT I WILL SPEAK TO THEE."--Hamlet, ACT I., SC. 4.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre within image, printed: Bernard Partridge.

Stamp: Recto: lower right margin, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.

Stamp: Verso: upper left, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY 1979.

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