Print Description
Medium: Lithograph, hand-colored with gum arabic on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 36.1 x 25 cm (14.21 x 9.84 inch). Image size: 33 x 22 cm. (12.99 x 8.66 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
WILLIAM GRAY, VICTORIAN SOCIAL CONTRAST, LONDON LITHOGRAPH, 19TH-CENTURY SOCIAL SATIRE, COLORED LITHOGRAPH, RICH AND POOR, VICTORIAN MORALITY, 1865, SOCIAL CONTRASTS | PCO-E30-40
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From Social Contrasts Portrayed in a Series of Twenty-Two Coloured Lithographic Plates From Pen and Ink Sketches by William Gray. London: William Oliver, 1865.
Reference: OCLC 27839032 (5 copies cited).
Biography engraver: William Gray was a 19th-century British illustrator and lithographer known for moralizing and satirical works. His best-known work, Social Contrasts, provided vivid commentary on class disparity in Victorian London.
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