Three couples and a young boy are picnicking outdoors. The large women with exaggerated sleeves and large bosoms exclaims: "Lauk, how hot the sun is to my back!" Everyone is oblivious to the fact that a fire is raging under the kettle behind her
Five couples, finely dressed men and ladies at an outdoor luncheon party are stampeded by bees. Confusion is made worse by one man who falls backwards from a bench, which he tilts up, clutching the table-cloth and dragging over a bowl of punch. One of...
Alternative Title:
Picnic party disturbed by a swarm of bees
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street
A picnic on the grounds of an elegant house are disrupted by dogs who steal the meat and a fist-fight that erupts between one of the attendants and the landowner(?).
"Satire on cits in the countryside; two dandies enjoying a picnic on the grass, a bull charging up behind them at left; town in the distance at right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from dialogue below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Picnics, Eating & drinking, Hunting, Rifles, Bulls, and Country life
Two young women sit near a secluded stand of trees looking at each other. The one on the right rests her arm on a picnic basket as she turns left to look at her companion who is stretched out behind her on the ground, a large white shawl draped over h...
