An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
Sailors carouse in a drunken orgy between decks; hammocks are slung from the roof and drunken sailors vomit over the sides into the crowd. Musicians play fiddles and drums. Men and women drink and dance. A negro fiddles; a Jew sits on the ground ready...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Jews, Boys, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Military officers, British, Musicians, Robberies, Sailors, and Vomiting
The many windowed buildings are on the right, the high curved and spiked wall on the left. A lawyer, who invoked proceedings for gaming offences against former cronies, is being tossed high from a vast blanket, having been lured into the prison. A gro...
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Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties