The Frenchmen in Billinsgate [graphic].

Description

Title: The Frenchmen in Billinsgate [graphic].
Alternative Title: Frenchmen in Billingsgate
Contributor: Davison, William, 1780-1858, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1812 and 1817]
Publication Place: Alnwick
Publisher: Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Abstract: A French woman engages in a fist fight with a startled customer as his friend looks on in horror. Her hook-nosed colleague sits at a table and extends an offer of a shellfish (lobster?) the brawlers
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from Isaac.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted.
Provenance: Alex and Emily Fotheringham; November 2008;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England Alnwick 1812
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Fighting
Fishmongers
French
Subjects: Fighting
Fishmongers
French > England
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
England > 1812
England > Alnwick > 1812

Access: Public
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