Subject (Name): Fleet Prison (London, England), / Subject (Topic): Courtyards

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 September 1808]
Call Number:: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
Collection Title:: V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View of the inner court of the prison, with the prisoners playing rackets on the left, others standing watching, a number of men smoking pipes, others lounging across benches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 36., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 44., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and 1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.1 x 27.9 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 33.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. 1st Septr. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Fleet Prison [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 September 1808]
Call Number:: Topos L847 no. 26+
Collection Title:: V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "View of the inner court of the prison, with the prisoners playing rackets on the left, others standing watching, a number of men smoking pipes, others lounging across benches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 36., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 44., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Mounted to 26 x 39 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. 1st Septr. 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Prisons and Courtyards
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Fleet Prison [graphic]

Published / Created:: publish'd according to act of Parliament, [not before 1764]
Call Number:: 764.00.00.73+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title engraved below image., Later state, with new imprint statement, of a print published in 1749 by B. Dickinson. Cf. No. 3049 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Publication date inferred from Carington Bowles's separation of his business from his father's in 1764. Cf. Ian Maxted's London book trades, 1775-1800, page 25., "Price 6d."--Following imprint., Four columns of verse below title: Welcome, welcome, brother debtor, to this poor but merry place ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Prison courtyard -- Debtors -- Trades: goal-keeper -- Trades: prison cooks -- Games: racket -- Containers: broken pitcher -- Birds.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, next Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):: Fleet Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Prisons, Courtyards, Prisoners, Crows, and Snakes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The humours of the fleet [graphic].

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