Tom getting the best of a Charley 1820

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Tom getting the best of a Charley'. A night scene on the east side of Temple Bar. Tom overturns a watchman's box, much to the alarm of the old watchman inside whose colleague raises the alarm with a rattle. Jerry, with two ladies of the town on his arms, guffaws. From Pierce Eganâ's Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, The Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis', (1820-1821) a work which was issued in monthly parts from October 1820 to July 1821. The words were written after the illustrations, and the characters became by-words and appeared on stage and on ranges of merchandise - fans, tea-trays, snuff boxes etc. This print was reproduced on a handkerchief.

Artist: George Cruikshank; Sherwood Jones u0026 Co; I. Robert Cruikshank

Copyright: © London Museum

Date: 1820 AD - 1820 AD

Object ID: A23159/2

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Tom getting the best of a Charley 1820
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