“The First Day [of the Royal Academy Exhibition]. Time — about 4 PM.” Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal. (9 May 1877): 31. Courtesy of the HathiTrust and the Harvard University Library. Click on image to enlarge it.

Shilling Swell. What a confounded nuisance it is to Crowd the place so! By Jove, I've been here since Ten o’Clock this Morning, and haven’t Seen the Pictures yet! »pon my word. I’ve a good minfd to de,and my Money back! [Does’t though, when he has thought it over.]

The cartoonist (whose initials are at lower left) makes fun of cheapskate snobs who purchase the lower tickets to the exhibition sold late in the day but pretend to be the kind of art lover and expert who would spend an entire day at the annual exhibition. — George P. Landow

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