Caricature shop [graphic].

Description

Title: Caricature shop [graphic].
Creator: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created: [September 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd. Sepr. 1801 by P. Roberts, Middle Row, Holborn
Abstract: A view of the shop of P. Roberts, publisher, from the street with a crowd on the sidewalk and street looking at the display of prints in the window. An elegant figure Roberts (?) stands in the doorway with a tool of his trade (a burin?) in hand; a customer is seated inside near the window. In the crowd are men, women and children, including a Black man and a man with no legs
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Printmaker surmised from subject matter.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mss. note at top of sheet: No. 7.
Provenance: Sotheby's [Car. II]; September 1968;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.8 x 32.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London
Subject (Name): Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805,
Subject (Topic): Black people
City & town life
Crowds
Dogs
Merchandise displays
Prints
Stores & shops
Window displays
Printing industry
People with disabilities
Subjects: Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805
Black people
City & town life
Crowds
Dogs
Merchandise displays > England > London > 1800-1810
Prints
Stores & shops
Window displays
Printing industry > England > London > 1800-1810
People with disabilities
England > 1801
England > London > 1801

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