"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"View of the market, looking towards the river; the market fairly crowded with people buying and selling fish, just beyond central foreground a voluptuous woman has tripped over a small bench and fallen on her back, causing those around her to tumble, a few ships docked."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 9., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 63., 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.8 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 34 cm., and Imperfect; aquatintist J. Bluck's name has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 March 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A sketch of fish-wives with their baskets ranged on the pavement (left); behind are the masts and sails of vessels in Billingsgate dock. Facing them is an irate customer with a gouty leg, a fish-wife (right) fastens a flat fish to his wig, while a small urchin tugs at his coat-tails. He clenches his fist and waves his stick, shouting with indignation. Of the women opposite, one holds out a fish towards him, shouting, another laughs with hands on hips, a third lies on the ground drunkenly vomiting, the contents of her basket spilling. Behind stands a woman drinking from a bottle. All are gross and fat, their breasts bare."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Billingsgate
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint burnished from plate; traces of imprint still visible below title., Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Pubd. Feby. 4, 1786, by E. Jackson, N. 14 Mary le bone Strt., Golden Square." Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.29., and Formerly mounted on leaf 30 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
