"The Gate Tower" — Cruikshank's illustration for Ainsworth's “The Tower of London” (1840) (original) (raw)

The Gate Tower

George Cruikshank

January 1840

wood-engraving

7.5 cm high by 8.4 cm wide, framed, p. 1

"The Gate Tower," half-page wood-engraving for the "Preface" of William Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London. A Historical Romance. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1840.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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