"A street scene at night. An affray between three fashionably dressed men and two watchmen who use bludgeons. They hold between them one young man; the second, in tail-coat and evening pantaloons, attacks a watchman with his cane; the third reclines on the ground, ineffectively flourishing an umbrella. The glass of a street-lamp above their heads has been cracked. The watchmen are determined fellows; one (left), in partly back view, has large letters on the back of his greatcoat: St J. | W, showing that the parish is that of St. James's or St. John's, Westminster. The pavement and cobbled roadway are broad, and behind two streets meet at right angles, receding left and right in perspective; the houses are uniform. There is a full moon."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1821.
A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He shouts up with angry suspicion to the latter, "Won't eat anything more I tell you. I shall be choaked. Got an eye to the estate I suppose."
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Publication date from watermark., Original publication line: Pubd. Oct. 1, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Later state of no. 9624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Later state of print described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, p. 15., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1799 -- Food: fruit., and Collector's stamp on verso: SP.
