The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century [graphic]

Description

Alternative Title

March of intellect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century
Dust-man & family of the 19th century
Dustman and family of the nineteenth century

Creator

Marks, John Lewis, printmaker

Contributor

Marks, John Lewis, publisher.

Published / Created

[approximately 1824]

Publication Place

London

Publisher

Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate

Abstract

"Caricature with a family of a working man, his wife and daughter dressed in fashionable clothes, with a cottage and pig on a dung-hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue

A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine).

Description

Title etched below image.
Date of publication inferred from publisher's street address. John Lewis Marks is recorded at 17 Artillery Street in 1824; see British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1985,0119.338.
For a companion print entitled "The march of interlect, or, A sweep & family of the 19th century", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2008,7088.1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Formerly mounted with remnants of blue paper.

Provenance