"Four men, much caricatured, fish from a punt which is anchored to a pole. One sleeps, another has hooked a giant frog, which a third is about to scoop up in a landing-net. The fourth registers excitement. In the punt is a chair."--British Museum onli...
In the upper half of the poster, a colorful fish swims in blue water, holding a gleaming gold ring in its mouth to present it to the small fisherman in a boat holding a net on the right. In the bottom half of the poster, the fish floats belly-up in mu...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Fairy tales, Pollution, Water, Fish, Rings, and Fishermen
"Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a p...
Volume 2, page 93. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier admires a young woman who holds out her skirt to hold fish she is buying from a fisherman."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Horses, Baskets, Fishermen, Fish, and Dogs
