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

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.