"A complicated design, foreground, middle distance, and sky filled with incidents, chiefly on applications of steam. In the foreground is a street-vendor's table spread with a white cloth and heaped with pine-apples, &c; beside it sits an elegant youn...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Steam, Airships, Steam automobiles, Pneumatic tubes, and Garbage collecting
"A complicated design, foreground, middle distance, and sky filled with incidents, chiefly on applications of steam. In the foreground is a street-vendor's table spread with a white cloth and heaped with pine-apples, &c; beside it sits an elegant youn...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
Subject (Topic):
Steam, Airships, Steam automobiles, Pneumatic tubes, and Garbage collecting
Fantastical depiction of advancing technology that includes all manner of steam-powered or aerial contraptions, domestic appliances, tunnels to the North Pole and South America, and a circulating library
"A complicated piece of machinery fills the centre of a room in a fashionable establishment; an open door (right) leads into a shop where, in the background, a pretty and extravagantly dressed woman (in the costume of c. 1828) presides at a counter; a...
Satire on modern technology, including depictions of steam used for war, amputations, underground travel, and beauty treatments. Also depicted is air travel by way of birds harnessed together, and the pseudoscience of phrenology used to assess a child...
Description:
Title etched above images, at top of plate.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Steam, Machinery, Cannons, Warships, Birds, Phrenology, Children, Travel, and Amputees
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a gian...
"Fantastic scene at a London street corner which abuts on open country, the roadway deep in mud. A coach and pair advances left to right; the coachman has laid down reins and whip to read the Times through spectacles, the footman standing behind is de...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 23 1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Steam, Storefronts, and Street vendors
