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Fight between “Jacko Maccacco”a celebrated Monkey and Mr. Thos. Cribb’s well known bitch “Puss”
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Thomas Landseer

Fight between “Jacko Maccacco”a celebrated Monkey and Mr. Thos. Cribb’s well known bitch “Puss”

c. 1853

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Thomas Landseer

Fight between “Jacko Maccacco”a celebrated Monkey and Mr. Thos. Cribb’s well known bitch “Puss”

c. 1853

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 167 × 243 mm. (6 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.) Image: 115 × 162 mm. (4 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.10473
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris

Inscribed: in image, lower left, in plate "TL 1825"; below image, lower left, in plate "Etchd by T. Landseer, from a sketch made at the time by himself"; below image, lower center, in plate "Fight between "Jacko Maccacco"a celebrated Monkey and Mr. Thos. Cribb's well known bitch "Puss""; above image, upper right, in plate "32"

Markings: none

Artist

Thomas Landseer

English, 1795-1880

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