"Inscription in the upper right. corner: 'A Serio Comic Scene that befel the Grocers Wife at Norwich Or Mrs Figgs bottom exposed owing to the bottom of Mr Figgs Whiskey breaking through.' The two-wheeled gig has stopped at the door of an old-fashioned...
Alternative Title:
Bottom of Mr. Figg's old whiskey broke through
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Dogs, Grocers, Spectators, Spouses, Stores & shops, and Window displays
"A young man standing turned slightly to left and with his arms held awkwardly out, wearing a tight white costume including a shirt with short sleeves, a collar worn high enough to cover the ears, a high and wide stock and a frill descending down the ...
Alternative Title:
New discovered animal
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed on same sheet.
Publisher:
Pub'd. March 1st, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
"A young man standing turned slightly to left and with his arms held awkwardly out, wearing a tight white costume including a shirt with short sleeves, a collar worn high enough to cover the ears, a high and wide stock and a frill descending down the ...
Alternative Title:
New discovered animal
Description:
Title from letterpress text printed on same sheet.
Publisher:
Pub'd. March 1st, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand and Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden
"Heading to a broadside, printed in three columns: the lengthy speeches (evidently by Woodward) of the two pleaders, 'Snip' and 'Galen Glauber'. A fat citizen, the judge of the court, sits in an armchair on a low dais, a gouty leg resting on a cushion...
Description:
Title from broadside printed on same sheet.
Publisher:
1802 published May 28th, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London and Printed by J. Smeeton, 148, St. Martin's Lane
Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 10, 1802, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
A "find lady" presumably an anonym of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; she is made as welcome as circumstances will permit; a bottle of wine, the refreshment customary, is ordered, and the stern hearts of the sheriff's me...
Alternative Title:
Jew bail rejected
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
"The instrumentalists are closely grouped round the armchair of the father of the family, a stout man in old-fashioned dress, who sits full face singing loudly, an open music book on his knees, his feet supported on the bar of his chair. His very fat ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd Augst. 30th, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"A man with a prodigious stomach and projecting nose and mouth stands at left in profile, opposite an elderly woman whose profile is shaped to accommodate his, having a crescent face with projecting forehead and chin, her body bent back and curved in ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 20, 1802, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
