Billing and cooing at the jelly shop [graphic].

Description

Title: Billing and cooing at the jelly shop [graphic].
Contributor: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 4th June 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A man and woman sit facing each other beside the counter, which stretches across the design; he holds a jelly-glass and puts a spoonful to her mouth; she sits with open mouth and folded arms, a closed fan in one hand. A third customer leans on the counter, holding a jelly-glass and admiring through a lorgnette his own reflection in a mirror; this is the centre of the wall behind the counter, dividing two sets of shelves on which are neatly ranged canisters, glasses, packets, &c. A shop-girl (right) also gazes at the pair. All are fashionably dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
After an original drawing by Isaac Cruikshank in the Huntington Library.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate numbered "219" in lower left corner.
Mounted to 32 x 26 cm; pasted beneath is a 1750s newspaper clipping advertising "How's Chocolate and Jelly House in Half-Moon-Court joining to Ludgate".
Mounted on page 3 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 19.5 x 24.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title: Page 3. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection / Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].