The triumph of gas lights [graphic]

Description

Title: The triumph of gas lights [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Spencer, Richard (Publisher), publisher.
Published / Created: 19th April 1810.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publd. by R. Spencer, Gt. Ormond Street
Abstract: "A street-lamp containing three gas-jets stands like a light-house on a rough stone mound between the sea (right) and a hill; these are lit by rays from the lamp which irradiate a dark sky and impinge upon a waning moon with a profile inset in a dark circle, and a dusky sun whose irradiated face looks out from clouds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Text below title: Extract from Moore's Almanack for the year 1811.
Six lines of quoted verse at bottom of plate: "And it shall come to pass, that Mr. Winsor's Patent Gas, will very soon eclipse the Moon, and when that's done put out the Sun."
Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 212 x 176 mm, on sheet 240 x 210 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Aquatints England London 1810
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gas street lamps
Subjects: Gas street lamps
England > 1810
England > London > 1810

Access: Public
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