"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate marked "11" in upper right corner., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 18, 1810 by T. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fish, Fishing boats, Fishmongers, Piers & wharves, and Street vendors
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 18th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 190., and Leaf 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fish, Fishing boats, Fishmongers, Piers & wharves, and Street vendors
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 18th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 190., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 33.3 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number., and Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fish, Fishing boats, Fishmongers, Piers & wharves, and Street vendors
"A rough-looking woman, stout, tall and muscular, with loose hair blown by the wind, stands in a dinghy, holding an oar, inscribed 'Moll Muggins Billingsgate', to punt or paddle her craft. One foot is on the gunwale, and her pose, looking up and to the left, travesties the lines below the title: "The Maiden paus'd, as if again, She thought to catch the distant strain, With head uprais'd and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art" 'Walter Scott's Poem'. A bottle inscribed 'Mack . . .' and a short clay pipe project from a pocket. In the background (right) is a man in a similar boat with a basket of fish. Two figures, one a Billingsgate woman with a basket on her head, are indicated on the quay, against which lies a small vessel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Dinghy., Leaf 11 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 21.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
"A rough-looking woman, stout, tall and muscular, with loose hair blown by the wind, stands in a dinghy, holding an oar, inscribed 'Moll Muggins Billingsgate', to punt or paddle her craft. One foot is on the gunwale, and her pose, looking up and to the left, travesties the lines below the title: "The Maiden paus'd, as if again, She thought to catch the distant strain, With head uprais'd and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art" 'Walter Scott's Poem'. A bottle inscribed 'Mack . . .' and a short clay pipe project from a pocket. In the background (right) is a man in a similar boat with a basket of fish. Two figures, one a Billingsgate woman with a basket on her head, are indicated on the quay, against which lies a small vessel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Dinghy., and Watermark (partial).
