A post-chaise and four with armorial bearings, no signs of the driver, is being overturned on a busy High Street, after running over large barrels which lie beside a pavior's mallet, stones, and wheelbarrow as the two passengers scream in horror. The ...
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 26th 1783 by V. Green, No. 29 Newman Street, Oxford Street & sold by F. Brydon, printseller, No. 7 opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London
Subject (Geographic):
England and Kent
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Peddlers, Street entertainers, and Traffic accidents
An old ballad singer offers his ballad sheets to a pretty young mother and her son as they walk across a bridge over the Thames. In the distance the sun's rays illuminate the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral
Description:
Title from caption etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, anothe...
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
A young woman stands in a city street singing, a scroll with music in her one hand; beside her is a young girl who plays a triangle. The two performers are surrounded by a happy looking crowd of working class and poor citizens -- men, women and child...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, by Ed. Jones
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Children, Cries, Singers, Street entertainers, and Percussion instruments
