Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Polite grocers of the Strand
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
Publisher:
Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
Subject (Name):
Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
Title etched below image., Possibly a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. London : R.S. Kirby, 1803-20., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 31, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard
Title from caption below image., Title from item., Printmaker, artist, publisher, and publication date from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., and "Front to his Poems of Ossian."--Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Title from caption below image., Printmakers from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and with signature of printmakers burnished out, of a plate originally published 10 May 1781 by Watson & Dickinson. Cf. no. 5916 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presumes to ride., Series numbering precedes title., Plate numbered "no. 8" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Equestrians -- Pastimes: Riding., Watermark: J. Whatman 1810., and Hand-coloring mostly obscures plate no. in upper left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Printmakers from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and with signature of printmakers burnished out, of a plate originally published 10 May 1781 by Watson & Dickinson. Cf. no. 5914 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presumes to ride., Series numbering precedes title., Plate numbered "no. 6" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Equestrians -- Pastimes: Riding., and Hand-coloring mostly obscures plate no. in upper left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Printmakers from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and with signature of printmakers burnished out, of a plate originally published 10 May 1781 by Watson & Dickinson. Cf. no. 5915 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presumes to ride., Series numbering precedes title., Plate numbered "no. 7" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Equestrians -- Pastimes: Riding., and Hand-coloring mostly obscures plate no. in upper left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Title from caption below image., Printmakers from signature on earlier state., Reissue, with different imprint statement and with signature of printmakers burnished out, of a plate originally published 10 May 1781 by Watson & Dickinson. Cf. no. 5917 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presumes to ride., Series numbering precedes title., Plate numbered "no. 9" in upper left corner., Temporary local subject terms: Equestrians -- Pastimes: Riding., and Hand-coloring mostly obscures plate no. in upper left corner of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 26th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Title from item., Plate numbered '397' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Title and publication information from broadside printed on same sheet., and Three colums of verse attributed to Robert Bloomfield below title.
Publisher:
Published 15th July, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Title and publication information from British Museum online catalogue., One plate from a verse satire: Foundling Chapel Brawl. Printed C. Roworth in Bell Yard, Temple Bar in 1805., and Mounted to 28 x 35 cm.
