Watercolor of a beggar dressed in ragged, patched clothes, leaning on two crutches and wearing a bag slung across his body with the words "Scraps thankfully received" lettered upon it. He wears an eye patch on his right eye; a pipe sticks out of his hat
Alternative Title:
Scraps thankfully received
Description:
Title, a quote from Hamlet, written in ink beneath image., Signed with the artist's initials and dated in lower portion of image. Artist's full name "Wm. Carruthers Esqre." is written within wash-line border at bottom., and For a lithograph of this design in reverse, published March 1825 by E. Hull and Rowe & Walker, see Wellcome Collection reference: 664653i.
A hideous, ragged woman looks amorously at her male companion, a burly dustman, as they sift through cinders; two others kneel at their feet, one also using a sieve to sift through the cinders while her companion drinks gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse; flying overhead a flock of carrion crows
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego., "Price one shilling coloured.", For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6., For a later reissue of the plate, see no. 7444 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Watermark: GT 1803.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A group of cinder-sifters at work on one of the vast laystalls which disgraced the surroundings of London in the 18th century (notably off Tottenham Court Road). A woman of the lowest type, ragged, naked to the waist, holds her sieve, turning her head to her male counterpart, a burly dustman, who helps her by shovelling cinders into her sieve. They grin amorously at each other. She is hideous, stout, and muscular. Two other cinder-sifters kneel on the ground, both are aged crones; one bends over her sieve, the other drinks a glass of gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse. Behind (left) is the dustman's cart. In the sky a flight of birds (left) are suggestive of carrion crows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego., Probably a later reissue of the plate, with Tegg's imprint statement and the year "1810" under Rowlandson's signature burnished out., Publication information based on earlier reissue with the imprint "Pub'd June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside." Cf. No. 7444A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, page 969., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., "Price one shilling coloured.", For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 189., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 91 in volume 1.
"An Edinburgh wynd or close. A man seated on a bucket is using it as a latrine. A man holding a bucket stands behind him, screening him with his cloak, and turning round to call "Haud your Hond Lossie" to a woman who is emptying a bucket of filth from a first-floor window. A man is seated on the ground on the right by a steaming cauldron, across which is a large spoon. He is calling "Twa dips & a wallop for a Baubee". The men are in Highland dress. Beneath the title is engraved: "Yi dunna ken what I can dee For I can set ye doon & cure ye tee"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st 1781 by J. Langham, St Brides Passage Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh.
Subject (Topic):
Refuse disposal, Privies, City & town life, and Clothing & dress
