"A man stripped to the waist is dragged at the cart's tail while a man flogs him ferociously with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The scene is a dusty suburban road, with one house and trees. Boys run up cheering; a fish-woman stands to jeer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Backgammon
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and First print in a series of four.
Publisher:
Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
Imitation bank note promising "to cut any lady or gentleman's hair superior to any man in Europe ...".
Description:
Title engraved at top of sheet., 'No. 49' is inscribed twice over the text in the fashion of a stamp's impression., "One hundred"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title above image., 'No. 49' is inscribed twice over the text in the fashion of a stamp's impression., Imitation bank note. Inscription only., "Thirty thousand"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed to leaving thread margins on one side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
Title from caption above image., Four lines of text below image: Drive about with a protogé Tom Thumb for a groom; this will appear at least as if you could afford to keep servants ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Carriages -- City streets -- Fashion -- Men -- Georgian squares.
Publisher:
Published by Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
Title from heading above image., Two lines of text below image: With what pleasure may you dispense with your equipage on an evening and ramble home lighted by the silver beams ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Bridges -- Walking -- Dogs -- Umbrellas -- Accidents.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket
"The interior of a fashionable goldsmith's shop. A well-dressed woman stands at the counter where the proprietor peers through his eyeglass at a (?) bank-note; she hands a watch and chain to a fashionably dressed man seated beside her, who screens the transaction with his top-hat. A boy leans from the street to snatch the man's handkerchief from his pocket. Outside are the trees of a London square"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Third plate in a series of four.
Publisher:
Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
"A (?) Savoyard boy playing fife and tabor exhibits his dolls, two puppets on a string stretched between his knee and a stick. A Welsh milk-woman (left), with her pails hanging from a yoke, laughs. Two little girls (right) are amused; the younger makes her doll imitate the puppets. The road is suburban, bordered by the paling of a Nursery, over which leans an amused spectator."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Marionettes à Londrés
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 15, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
