A bankrupt cart, or, The road to ruin in the east! [graphic]

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Title: A bankrupt cart, or, The road to ruin in the east! [graphic]
Alternative Title: Road to ruin in the east
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: November 5, 1799.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: "A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are absurdly complacent. A boy and girl are crammed in. Behind rides a fat and grinning footman, with plodding dog. On the extreme right a newsboy with the 'London Gazette' blows his horn. Behind (left) is an open doorway inscribed 'Mash Brewer'; within are casks. The wall is inscribed 'Puddle Dock', and on it are two bills: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden the Comedy of the Bankrupt with High Life Below Stairs and A House to be let in Grosvenor Square Suitable for a Genteel Family' (they appear to be bound for this house). Houses form a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: carts -- Breweries -- Mash -- Newsboys -- Literature: reference to High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1714-1778) -- Reference to The Bankrupt by Samuel Foote ( 1720-1777)-- Puddle Dock -- Female dress: plumed hats -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 23.4 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 37 cm.
Printmaker's name burnished from plate.
Watermark: Russell & Co 1797.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.4 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English