A shower, or Any port in a storm [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A shower, or Any port in a storm [graphic].
- Alternative Title
- Any port in a storm
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- June the 4, 1786.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sweep is about to climb up, putting one foot on his sack of soot. A cloaked market-woman, smoking a pipe, stands under the shelter, as does a man in the dress of a naval officer. A sailor, wearing trousers, his arms folded, appears to be dancing a hornpipe under the shelter of the hat. In the background (right) a lady walks (right to left) holding up a small umbrella which shelters only a minute part of her enormous hat which extends far beyond her projecting breast and petticoats. In the foreground chickens run towards a hen for shelter. A house (left) and a high wall behind which is a tree (right) complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from item.
On verso, in pencil: questionable attribution to Kingsbury.
Watermark in center of sheet. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 786.06.04.01+ Impression 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Chickens
Chimney sweeps
Clothing & dress
Hats
Sailors
British
Street vendors
Umbrellas
Uniforms - Subjects
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Chickens
Chimney sweeps
Clothing & dress
Hats
Sailors > British
Street vendors
Umbrellas
Uniforms > British
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7733706
- Object ID (OID)
- 10728146