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1. The butcher [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [18--?]
- Call Number:
- 740.00.00.62+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on butchers showing a calf as a butcher holding an axe and a cleaver, with a meat tray as a breastplate, a candle in his hat, and a steel hanging from his apron. In the background, the enclosure of Smithfield market (with street lamps against the fences) in which a group of men with sticks and dogs chase a runaway ox; the entrance to St Bartholomew's hospital and the distant dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Enclosed in a delicate frame a sheep's fleece hanging between verses below; these allude to the butcher's manly strength and his wife's consequent faithfulness."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched within image., Originaly published ca. 1740 by George Bickham. See no. 2470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Two columns of verse below image: Old Aesop who in morals did surpass, wrapt in a lion's skin, produc'd an ass ...
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Smithfield Market, and St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Arcimboldesque figures, Butchers, Equipment, and Street lights
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The butcher [graphic].
