A satire with six groups of figures in two rows and lines of dialogue etched above each figure discussing class and professions, with various caricatures from the upper and lower classes
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4th, 1800, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
"View down Portland Place, looking north, the view unobscured by other buildings; a small crowd gathers to watch a man taunting a bear on the street to the left, a couple of carriages in street"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, publisher and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Plate from: A picturesque tour through the cities of London and Westminster. London: T. Malton, 1792 [i.e. 1802].
A postman shown full-length in hat and breeches holds a bell in his right hand and a case in his left
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker's name in lower left corner of plate illegible., Publisher statement appears within image; publication date in lower right corner below image., Publisher's name possibly fictitious., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: bedroom -- Closets -- Military officers -- Young women -- Parents -- Crying -- Dogs., and Mounted to 33 x 43 cm.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and other text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 185 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
A peddler shown full-length walking left with two poles from which hang dead rabbits
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reduced copy in reverse of no. 18 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
"No. 6. A ballad-singer (three-quarter length) bawls a ballad; at her back is an infant, another is beside her, both bawling. Her song: 'What's Life without Passion, sweet Passion of Love'. An elderly bearded Jew is close beside her, hands clasped, looking up in ecstasy. Beneath the design: 'Melody produces Rapture, as exemplified in the Jew Cloathsman's rapturous attention to the Vocal strains of the Ballad-singer & her Family.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., Two lines of text below image: Melody produces rapture, as exemplified in the Jew cloathsman's rapturous attention to the vocal strains of the ballad-singer & her family., Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Cf. State with plate no. See No 9628 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: ballad-singer -- Used clothing -- Jews -- Singing -- Children.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
A savoyard peep show owner, walking to the right with his show strapped onto his back and holding a stick
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reduced copy in reverse of no. 22 in M. Laroon's Cries of London., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.5.48., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A copy in reverse of no. 4766 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Soldiers -- Volunteers -- Clerks -- Sign: "The Old Fortune" -- Town centers -- Castle gate -- Pictures amplify subject., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 239.
