Billingsgate Market [graphic]

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Title: Billingsgate Market [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63.
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.8 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 34 cm.
Imperfect; aquatintist J. Bluck's name has been erased from sheet.
Provenance: Acquisitions information unknown.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.5 x 28 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1
Collection Title: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Collection Date: [London] : R. Ackermann's repository of arts, no. 101 Strand, [1808-10]

Genre: Views
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1808
Aquatints England London 1808
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Billingsgate Ward (London, England),
Subject (Topic): Markets
Ships
Subjects: Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Markets > England > London
Ships
England > London > 1808

Access: Public
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