At Vauxhall Gardens, the Master of Ceremonies, C.H. Simpson greets a man in uniform as fashionable visitors look on. Projected in the background is a view of his colossal likeness, in variegated lamps, taken in the Gardens on the 19th of August (the ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by W. Kidd, 14 Chandos Stt. West Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Simpson, Christopher Herbert, 1770-1835, and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
840.00.00.31+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Satire on attempts to enforce Observance of the Sabbath. John Bull sits miserably in a corner of a room. In the five lines etched at the top of image, we learn that he has no food or tobacco and is unable to go out for fear of the 'Arm'd Blue Devil' (...
Alternative Title:
Englishman's fireside!
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Agnew, Andrew, Sabbath legislation, John Bull (Symbolic character), Distress, Interiors, Police, and Starvation
