Print, admission-ticket, Richard Wilson, 1851

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. Date: 1851. Dimensions: Height:203 mm Width:255 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Guild of Literature and Art. Collection: British Museum. Print, admission-ticket (BM 1851,0908.3)