"Frontispiece from 'Metropolitan Grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its Vicinity', 1812. A crowded street scene, with the corner of a tripe-butcher's on the right: 'Gilbert. Gall Tripem[an]', a lean-to shop, in which the butcher bargains over sheeps' trotters and offal with an elderly woman. Outside this is a pavement along which a little boy bowls a hoop between the legs of an elderly lady on the extreme right who totters on high-heeled shoes, having dropped a lap-dog from her muff. A little chimney-sweep is much amused. Above the butcher's a woman at a window empties a pan: the contents splash on to the pent-house roof and pour through a spout over the white stockings of a fashionably dressed passer-by who registers horror, holding up an eyeglass. The stream splashes the unconscious woman who chaffers with the tripe-man. A street-lamp projecting from the corner of the house is broken. Over the uneven cobbles an old woman pushes a barrow of cat's-meat, shrieking her wares; two dogs bark at the barrow, a cat miaows. Near her stands a ragged, bare-legged man, with grievously twisted and misshapen legs (showing the effects of rickets); he sells 'The Last Dying Sp[eech] . . .', with a print of bodies on a gibbet, shouting from a cavernous mouth in a subhuman face. Behind him a jovial crossing-sweeper plies his broom. On the left is a caricature shop, the window-panes filled with prints, among which one of 'the Hottentot Venus', Saartjie Baartman, see No. 11577, &c., is conspicuous. There are also large comic heads. A fashionably dressed woman leaves the shop, holding her nose (assailed by the cat's-meat). Four men gaze at the window; one is a countryman whose pocket is being picked. Heavy flower-pots are about to fall on their heads from a projecting ledge. A woman leans from a first-floor window trying vainly to stop the fall, and letting her watering-pot discharge its contents on the still unconscious window-gazers. On the wall is the disk of the 'Sun' Fire Office, with the date '1812'. The next house is a small gin-shop with a bunch of grapes for its sign and the inscription '. . Arsnic--Best Cordial Gin'. Three dram-drinkers stand at the door. The last house, a corner one, is dilapidated and shored up with a beam. The ground floor belongs to 'D. Dip Tallow Chandler'; against the window is a stall or bulk. The top floor is that of 'Ling--Dyer &c'; a pole projects from a window with dyed garments and a length of material hanging out to dry. On the corner of the house is the notice: 'F P 20 Ft'. In the background the dome of St. Paul's rises above the roofs of houses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date based on information from the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. G. Smeeton, 139 St. Martin's Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Baartman, Sarah,
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, People with disabilities, and Window displays
Title from text above images., Design divided into twenty-four numbered compartments, each with an individual title and two lines of accompanying verse., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Nov. 26, 1830, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Design divided into four compartments, each individually titled in French and English, showing a figure constructed from the tools and equipment or wares of their respective trades: a hatter, a cooper, a blacksmith and a joiner
Alternative Title:
Chapelier
Description:
Title from captions below images, in French and English.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Coopers, and Hats
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption continues: Oui Madame! here is von pair of de first qualité!, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject headings: Costume: 1830., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Print numbered in ms. near top of sheet: 102.
Title from text above images., Attribution to Henry Heath from the description of a related print in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.3.171., Probably one of a series of prints, published by S. Gans, that includes a print entitled "Fears"; Cf. No. 15972 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11., Seven designs on one plate, each individually captioned., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 1830 by S. Gans, Southampton Street, Strand
A series of six scenes, three in two rows, showing skeletons in various activities, each individually captioned: Singing, Dancing, Music, Oratory, Painting, Sculpture
Description:
Title from text above images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six designs on one plate, each individually captioned., Text below title: No. 2., and Watermark: W. King 1829.
Publisher:
Published 3rd June 1830 by S. Gans, 15, Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Dancers, Musicians, Public speaking, and Skeletons
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.77+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
