"Two sailors ride (right to left) a velocipede (see No. 13399) with two saddles on the elongated bar. At the back is a seat for two passengers in which are two gaily dressed women. The first sailor says over his shoulder: "D--n it Jack this is rare sailing without a wind!" The front wheel collides with a dandy (left), who has dropped his steering-bar (which has dropped to the ground) and is about to fall off. Jack answers: "A very pretty invention Tom! D--n it we shall run down the Dandy!" The dandy (cf. No. 13029) shouts: "Curse you you tarpaulins Wy don't you mind how you steer." One of the women holds a bottle and glass; she looks back saying: "Vy Poll this beats the Dilly [diligence]!! Vy Poll it' s capsized!!" Poll sits back with folded arms, one leg resting on the second sailor's shoulder. She answers: "And we have capsized a Dandy!!" In the background (right) a mail-coach lies on its side; men, women, and luggage from the outside are on the ground; an inside passenger tries to climb from the window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date supplied in contempory hand., and Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Pub. by J. Johnston, 98 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Bicycles & tricycles, Dandies, British, Mail wagons, and Sailors
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Royal Mail. Between Calais and Paris -worked with post-horses, and quitting the latter every afternoon at 4 o'clock: -its return of course depending on the arrival of the mail packet at Calais ..., and Second sheet attached to print 9 x 17 cm.
The Bristol London Royal mail wagon arrives outside the Post Office as men, women, and children (and dogs) walk about the street, some reading letters others conversing. Next to the Post Offfice is the Fire Office
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Date of publication erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published by Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Crowds, Dogs, Mail wagons, Postal service, and Post offices
"Heading to (printed) verses ... Mail-coach passengers snatch a hasty meal in a room in the White Horse Cellar (Piccadilly) giving on to the street where the side of the coach is visible. The guard stands in the middle of the room, coach-horn in hand, imperiously addressing a lady who holds a caged parrot. A man on the left drinks from a bowl. A man with his hat tied on warms his back at the fire. The coachman waits outside the door. Over the fireplace is a framed picture of a mail-coach, and on the chimney-piece a model of a horse (the sign of the famous coaching inn)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title from letterpress verse printed below image., Several lines of verse below image: Come, listen to my story, now seated in my glory ..., Plate numbered "512" in upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 15th Jan. 1821 by Richd. H. Laurie No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. and Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Eating & drinking, Mail wagons, and Coach drivers
Title etched below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns below title: At each inn on the road I a welcome could find, at the Fleece I'd my skin fill of ale ..., Plate numbered '425' in the lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Mail wagons, Guards, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, Traffic signs & signals, and Doors & doorways
