BM8932-characters-sketched-in-the-vicinity-of-london-1798
identifier:
BM8932-characters-sketched-in-the-vicinity-of-london-1798
title:
Characters sketched in the vicinity of London
date:
1798
description:
Plate 3 to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary and Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ... England and South Wales'. A sequence of scenes, characteristic of a London Sunday, arranged in three rows. 'Compartment 1.' A family group walk, a thin tradesman carrying a child, walking next to his fat wife who holds a fan, preceded by a little girl sucking an orange, and a dog followed by a little boy astride a walking-stick. They are in the 'Long Fields'. 'Comp (2)' An apprentice walking arm-in-arm with a young woman. 'Comp 3' Two elderly citizens pausing in their walk for discussion. 'Comp (4)' A game at bowls, one man about to play, five others watch intently, three smoking pipes. 'Compt (5)' Haymakers, one couple dancing, others sleeping under hay-stacks, or watching the dance. 'Comp. (6)' A 'curd and whey woman'. A woman sits beside a table with two pails; a little boy drinks from a mug. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #8932
format:
35 cm x 32 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.04 1798
subject:
English society
subject:
People
subject:
Families
subject:
Sketches
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections