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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1814]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
- Collection Title:
- V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A crowded scene, broadly caricatured, on the frozen Thames just above London Bridge, which forms a background, with coaches passing and spectators looking down. In the foreground (right) a jovial waterman straddles behind his ninepins at which an artisan is about to throw. Men and women drink and fight in an open tent inscribed 'Shannon', where a large pot cooks on a brazier. A man's wooden leg plunges through the ice; a fat woman falls on her back on breaking ice, dragging down a man by his pigtail and terrifying and tripping up a fiddler and a raffish man in a furred and braided overcoat with a flamboyant top-hat. Customers (left) buy souvenirs from a printer who inks a block: behind is a press placarded 'The Thames Printing Office--Copper Plate printg done in the Best Style by J water-- Wagtail & Co.' There are two makeshift tents on the left: one placarded 'Gin and Gingerbread Sold here Wholesale'; the other: 'The Nelson'. In the middle distance revellers drink or dance, and a woman at a stall cries "Here's my smoking Hot sasengers a penney a peic"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Gambols on the River Thames : February 1814
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate numbered "312" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately., Temporary local subject terms: Coaches -- Printer -- Wooden leg -- Ninepines -- Frost fair -- London Bridge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.6 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 9 in volume 5.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 1814 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Gambols on the River Thames Feby. 1814 / [graphic]