A satire on a working man's interest in reading: On a city street, a laborer with a large load of furniture -- desk, chairs, brooms, etc. -- is distracted with the paper he is reading and hits a gentleman in the face with the leg of the desk
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Ducote & Stephen's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 March 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 56. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group in a garden room listening to a girl read, seated in the centre with the book in her lap, two woman sitting on either side of her, one patting a dog at right, the other with solemn expression, which has been noticed by a man standing against ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published 3 March 1786 by James Bretherton, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Children, Courtship, Dogs, and Reading
Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
A slender man (left) reading a book complains to a second man (right) sitting opposite him, "Dangit sir I wish you would just blow your nose". The second man, who is very fat and has a very large, bulbous and ruddy nose that extends over the first man...
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink.
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants