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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1824]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A street scene at the corner of 'Petticoat Lane' (left) and 'Smock Alley' (right). An ugly and bedizened woman wearing pattens, holding an umbrella and kilting up her skirt, walks painfully over the cobbles, bending forward; her stockings heavily spattered with mud; her breast and arms are bare except for a scarf looped over her shoulders. Heavy slanting rain descends; it pours from the hat of an old woman (left), who stoops over a heavy basket she is carrying. Above her head a woman leans from a window, emptying a chamber-pot. Behind (right), two scavengers shovel mud into a cart. The houses are old and dilapidated, with casement windows. The lantern-sign of a penny-barber (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7605) hangs from a pent-house projection, inscribed 'Shave . . .' There is no pavement, but a solid post (left) protects a large grating let into the cobbles."--British museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with altered title and imprint statement, of a print originally published 10 February 1812 by Hannah Humphrey. For the earlier state entitled "Wet under foot," see no. 11956 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 225., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Muck'y weather [graphic].
