Artist
Boosey & Co
Boosey & Co is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
They made prints you can still find tucked into old books, cheap but lively enough to make a parlor laugh. One set shows actors mid-play with costumes so exaggerated you can almost hear the punchlines. Their trick was turning theater gossip into durable paper jokes for anyone to buy.
Hunt down the 1823 H Beard Print Collection at the British Museum’s digital gallery; zoom in and the actors’ faces will smirk back at you.
Works by Boosey & Co
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