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1. A frolic in high life, or, A visit to Billingsgate [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Dec. 1, 1824.
- Call Number:
- 824.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an irate woman seated on an upturned tub beside her stall, berating a lady in a riding-habit who holds a huge fish's head. Beside the latter is another lady, disconcerted. Two liveried servants are amond the crowd. Lady Caroline Lamb and a young marchioness, both 'in disguise', go to the market to hear the traditional language of the fishwives, this Lady Caroline provokes by disparaging a fish. On the left is a fashionably dressed young man, resembling R.C. On the left, a drunken woman sits with her glass raised. From British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Visit to Billingsgate
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Shipsfood v., and Street vendors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A frolic in high life, or, A visit to Billingsgate [graphic]
