The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an irate woman seated on an upturned tub beside her stall, berating a lady in a riding-habit who holds a huge fish's head. Beside the latter is another lady, disconcerted. Two liveried servants are amond the crowd. Lady Caroline Lamb and a young marchioness, both 'in disguise', go to the market to hear the traditional language of the fishwives, this Lady Caroline provokes by disparaging a fish. On the left is a fashionably dressed young man, resembling R.C. On the left, a drunken woman sits with her glass raised. From British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Shipsfood v., and Street vendors
"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.8 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 34 cm., and Imperfect; aquatintist J. Bluck's name has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
A French woman engages in a fist fight with a startled customer as his friend looks on in horror. Her hook-nosed colleague sits at a table and extends an offer of a shellfish (lobster?) the brawlers
Alternative Title:
Frenchmen in Billingsgate
Description:
Title from item., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted.
The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an irate woman seated on an upturned tub beside her stall, berating a lady in a riding-habit who holds a huge fish's head. Beside the latter is another lady, disconcerted. Two liveried servants are among the crowd. Lady Caroline Lamb and a young marchioness, both 'in disguise', go to the market to hear the traditional language of the fishwives, this Lady Caroline provokes by disparaging a fish. On the left is a fashionably dressed young man, resembling Robert Cruikshank. On the left, a drunken woman sits with her glass raised. From British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14941 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 342, vol. 1. Watermark: Warranted not bleached.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Ships, and Street vendors
