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Ajouter au panierSee the entries for the Cruikshanks in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. On 20 x 11.5 cm piece of paper. Somewhat aged and worn, with small pinhole at head, and postage folds; neatly inserted in trimmed windowpane mount. The recipient is not named, the text reading: 'Mr Ryan was suggesting an idea of something come upon the Jewess which is very popular after the manner of Bombastes and also a ballad part of which I leave as a specimen perhaps you will consider of it and let me know / R. Cruikshank'. Although Robert's brother George was responsible for a number of anti-semitic engravings, the reference here to a 'very popular' 'Jewess' is clearly to J. R. Planché's 1835 'grand operatic drama in three acts', 'The Jewess'. 'Bombastes' is a reference to W. B. Rhodes's 1830 'burlesque tragic opera' 'Bombastes Furioso', for the publication of which George Cruikshank had furnished 'eight designs'.