"Prince Leopold (right), in uniform, puts his head through a glassless aperture in a window in the door of his 'Grecian Establish[ment]--Co[burg]', to look intently at a fat Turk who stands in profile to the right, elaborately dressed and holding a long pipe with smoking bowl. The door, partly cut off by the right margin, is flanked by a Corinthian pillar and set in a wall on which are placards: 'This . Shop!!! will shortly open under entire new Management--Vivant [sic] Rex'; a Union Jack poster (partly covered); the Russian eagle, and a fleur-de-lis, the two last inscribed 'Loan'. The Turk: 'What have you taken the Shop? well if you take my advice you will not give Your Customers too much Credit for I can tell you they are a queer set to deal with by the bye they nearly ruined me--and mind that you look sharp after your Shopmen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 50 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
Subject (Topic):
Turks, Ethnic stereotypes, Doors & doorways, National emblems, and Signs (Notices)
Title from caption below image., Below title: over the hills and far away., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1826 [?]
Title etched below image., Three columns of text below title provide a key to numbered parts of the image: 1. The guide and engineer ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton St., Strand
A figure of man composed of tobacco products is shown seated smoking a pipe. The products of his trade as a tobacconist are shown on the table and the wall behind as well as parts of his body
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by G.E. Madeley, Wellington St., Strand
A figure of man composed of tobacco products is shown seated smoking a pipe. The products of his trade as a tobacconist are shown on the table and the wall behind as well as parts of his body
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Tobacco, Tobacco products, and Water pipes (Smoking)
"An Irish bricklayer's labourer has reached the top of a ladder and steps off onto the coping of a London house. In his hod he carries a fellow-countryman who waves his hat and flourishes his tobacco-pipe, looking down at his bearer. The roof is being re-tiled and is flanked by chimney-stacks. A little climbing-boy stands in a chimney-pot (right), waving his brush and shovel. Two amused faces look up from an attic window (left). The words of the two Irishmen are below the title: 'By the Powers --Here you are at the top o' the ladder & sure enough, --I've won the Pot o' Beer, that's Pat! You've won it sure enough Teddy But I was in hopes at one time Youd a let me Fall!!'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Two columns of dialogue below title: By the powers here you are at the top o' the ladder ..., After M. Egeron. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1830 by S. Gans, 15 Southamptom Street, Strand