"Satire on the Jacobite rebellion, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, and the pro-French and Catholic measures he was expected to introduce. The Prince walks through a market place wearing a tartan kilt and a coat covered in fleur-de-l...
Alternative Title:
Highland fair
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden ...
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Tencin, Pierre Guérin de, 1679-1758, and Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dogs, Donkeys, Petitions, Frogs, Street vendors, Markets, Sweeping & dusting, Chapels, Skulls, Bones (Anatomy), and Signs (Notices)
"A London scene: in the foreground men and women flee diagonally from right to left towards the spectator away from a bullock (right) in the middle distance, pursued by men with sticks. The fugitives include a little chimney-sweeper on the extreme lef...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, published as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Smithfield Markey,
Subject (Topic):
Animal fighting, Barrels, Bulls, City & town life, Crowds, Fishmongers, Food vendors, Markets, Military uniforms, and British
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary describing the author's travels through the shires and market towns of England, chiefly in the west and south of England and East Anglia. Luttrell describes the houses of each town and indicates wheth...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Great Britain., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Luttrell, Narcissus, 1657-1732. and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Subject (Topic):
Market towns, Markets, Commerce, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
A perspective view, or vues d'optique, of the Covent Garden Market, looking towards Inigo Jones's St. Paul's Church, which is situated slightly to the right of center; in the foreground are shown vendors, carriages, pedestrians and other street life. ...
Alternative Title:
Vue perspective du Covent Garden, Vue du Couvent Garden, and Vue du Convent Garden
Description:
Title etched below image; alternative title etched in reverse above image: Vue du Couvent Garden.
Publisher:
Chez J. Chereau, rue St. Jacques au desses de la Fontaine St. Severin aux a Colonnes no. 257
A boisterous scene set in Covent Garden. It is likely early morning after a night of carousing. In which the market has been disrupted by a raucous crowd. A man sits atop a sedan chair occupied by a woman. A woman raises her arm to strike a man lying ...
