One of the advantages of oil over gas [graphic]

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Title: One of the advantages of oil over gas [graphic]
Creator: Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880, printmaker, artist
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1821]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Abstract: "A fashionably dressed man approaches the steps leading to a street-door, unconscious of a shower of oil which descends on hat and coat from a lamp-lighter on a ladder (left). The latter, can in left hand, tinder-box in right, looks to the left, carelessly tilting his can."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue of a plate in a series that was originally published by G. Humphrey in October 1821. For the first plate of the original issue of the series, see no. 14289 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xvi, p. 99.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 31 x 25 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1821
Etchings England London 1821
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Street lights
Oil cans
Ladders
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Street lights
Oil cans
Ladders
Doors & doorways
England > 1821
England > London > 1821
Maidment, Brian > Donor

Access: Public
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