Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of drawing; final digits of date are mostly illegible, but a similar drawing by Owen in the same volume is clearly dated "1822"., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
Title from pencil annotation on verso of matte, perhaps in the artist's hand; note is signed "S. Owen" below., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of drawing., and Laid in volume 2 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.
"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate marked "11" in upper right corner., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Sept. 18, 1810 by T. Tegg No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fish, Fishing boats, Fishmongers, Piers & wharves, and Street vendors
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 18th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 190., and Leaf 11 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fish, Fishing boats, Fishmongers, Piers & wharves, and Street vendors
"A young man being hauled out of the water by men in a fishing boat, one holding onto a pole he clutches, another supported by his companions, as he reaches out over the side of the boat to seize the drowning man's jacket; with three gentlemen in a boat behind to right and a hot-air balloon sinking in the waves in the background; after Barralet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs June 4th, 1787, by Thos. Milton, No. 40 Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, and by J. James Barralet, in Dublin
Subject (Name):
MacGwire, Richard, active 1785,
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning accidents, Balloons (Aircraft), Fishing boats, and Rescues
