The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]

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Title: The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]
Alternative Title: New Covent Garden Hall
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
Contributor: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1825]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Abstract: An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 16 x 24 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.4 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Aquatints England 1825
Satires (Visual works) England 1825
Etchings England London 1825
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic): Chandeliers
Courtship
Eating & drinking
Fighting
Parties
Subjects: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856
Chandeliers
Courtship
Eating & drinking
Fighting
Parties
England > 1825
England > London > 1825

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