Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Polite grocers of the Strand
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
Publisher:
Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
Subject (Name):
Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
"View in the Strand looking towards St Clement Danes, a carriage approaching on the street to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de l'Eglise de St. Clements, dans le Strand
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state; remnants of burnished imprint visible at bottom of plate., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "4" in upper right corner., Watermark: Charles Ball 1817., Leaf 35 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: This rare view is copied in Fairholt's "Haunted London".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Strand, The (London, England),, England, and London.
"View on the Strand looking towards St Mary's Church, with Somerset House on the right, a sedan chair on street to left, a carriage to the right, elegantly dressed figures and street traders on street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de L'Eglise de St. Marie dans le Strand, proche le Palais Royal de Somerset a Londres
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state; remnants of burnished imprint visible at bottom of plate., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner., Watermark: Charles Ball 1817., Leaf 36 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Somerset House.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Strand, The (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Mary le Strand (Church : London, England), and Somerset House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Churches, Streets, Castles & palaces, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs
Kemble, in tattered theatrical dress, stands at the gate of Northumberland House in the Strand, holding out his hat and bowing to the obese and oafish-looking Duke of Northumberland, who is placing a "Draft for 10,000 Pounds" in the hat; in his right hand he holds a paper which lists donations. Kemble is followed by his brother Charles and his sister Mrs. Siddons, both of whom are weeping. Her reticule is stuffed with papers and is inscribed "Humble solicitations..."
Alternative Title:
New dramatic resource : "a begging we will go! A scene from Covent Garden Theatre after the conflagration
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publishd. Jany. 15, 1809, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Strand, The (London, England), and Covent Garden Theatre.
Subject (Topic):
Fires, Fools & jesters, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
"View of a promenade lined with trees next to the River Thames, looking towards the York Buildings water-works and the tower of the old steam engine on the right, with the York Water Gate in front; on the left is the river with Westminster Bridge in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.1366., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in lower left corner, resulting in slight loss of title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted to 24 x 35 cm., and Leaf 61 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Strand, The (London, England),, Thames River (England),, Westminster Bridge (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
York-Buildings Company.
Subject (Topic):
Rivers, Hydraulic facilities, Bridges, Walkways, Stairways, Trees, and Boats
