A young woman stands in a city street singing, a tambourine in her one hand, as a man with a satchel peers from behind
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication extrapolated from imprint from the book., Plate from: Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the Lower Orders. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, Singers, Street entertainers, and Tambourines
Title from item., Parallel title in English, French, and Italian., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's nationality., Published: Marcellus Laroon, The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life. Editions were published in 1688 and 1711., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., In image lower right corner: 68., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
P Tempest exc; Cum Privilegio
Subject (Topic):
Posture, Equilibrium, Contortionists, Street entertainers, and Monkeys
Title from item., Date and publisher information from untrimmed copy in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris., Trimmed sheet., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Balance.
Publisher:
S. lith de Delpech
Subject (Topic):
Acrobats, Equilibrium, Street entertainers, Daggers & swords, Circuses & shows, Spectators, Dogs, Drums (Musical instruments)., and Drinking vessels
Title from caption below image., Text above image: A little music à la françoise., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 13047 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Sept. 18, 1818, by G. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Gypsies -- Dustmen -- Dustman's bells., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 30.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Children, City & town life, Chimney sweeps, Dogs, Musical instruments, Organ grinders, Street entertainers, and Violins
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 road is filled with other carriages, horsemen, and a stage-coach, and the sidewalks crowded with pedestrians, street-entertainers, and vendors. Groups of onlookers lean from the bow windows of the inn on the opposite side. Some of the characters depicted amongst the crowd of revellers on the stage coach are: a grenadier beating a drum; a man blowing a trumpet; and a Jew clutching his box. The busy sidewalks are crowded with the pedestrians including: two men and a lady; a gypsy with a basket and scales; a fiddler; and a singer. The scene includes many signs and placards as well
Description:
Title, printmaker, artist, and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of title, attribution, and imprint., and Mounted to 52 x 70 cm.
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
Title from caption below center image., Seven designs on one plate, each individually titled; title from caption below design in the upper left., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. To be continued occasionally. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 73.
Publisher:
George Cruikshank
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Black people, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Peg legs, Stilts, and Street entertainers
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., Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Imprint erased?, Window mounted to 41 x 30 cm., Note in an unidentified hand at bottom of mounting sheet., and Watermark.
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, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to right., a harpist and a door through which enter a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged."--British Museum online catalogue
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., Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image., Caption in five columns below image., and "Plate 3."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
