Light summer travelling, only six inside. Children half price [graphic].

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Title: Light summer travelling, only six inside. Children half price [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st September 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A stage-coachman (left) holds open the door of his coach, showing that it is overcrowded with five fat passengers. He speaks to a fat woman who stands in profile to the right, holding a fan, a dog tucked under her left arm. A flagged pavement and cobbled roadway show that they are in a London street. Beneath the title is engraved: '"Just room for one Madam," - "Vell I wow I have run all the way like a Lamp-lighter, till I am all over in such a Heat you can't think."'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library.
Plate numbered '198' in lower right corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
One line of text below title: Just room for one Madam, -- vel [sic] I vow I have run all theway like a lamp-lighter ...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1795
Engravings England London 1797
Material: etching & engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Obesity
Streets
Travelers
Women
Subjects: Dogs
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Obesity
Streets
Travelers
Women
England > 1797
England > London > 1795
England > London > 1797

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