"Street scene. The showman (right) stands in profile to the right looking up at Punch and Judy who perform on their tiny stage, the supports of which are covered by a checked material. A monkey wearing a cocked hat and coat stands on his shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple-woman. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy in the foreground on the extreme right. The spectators gaze up intensely amused: A milkman (left), his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey dressed as a woman is drinking. A young woman holds out a hat for coins, while she picks the pocket of a spectator. A third monkey crouches on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punch's puppet show
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below title: Now's the time for mirth & glee, sing & laugh & dance with me., One of a series of Drolls., and Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Criminals, Crowds, Dogs, Milkmen, Monkeys, Organ grinders, Peddlers, Puppet shows, Spectators, and Street vendors
"Street scene. The showman (right) stands in profile to the right looking up at Punch and Judy who perform on their tiny stage, the supports of which are covered by a checked material. A monkey wearing a cocked hat and coat stands on his shoulder and takes an apple from the basket on the head of an apple-woman. A man plays a hurdy-gurdy in the foreground on the extreme right. The spectators gaze up intensely amused: A milkman (left), his yoke on his shoulder, has put down his pail, from which a second monkey dressed as a woman is drinking. A young woman holds out a hat for coins, while she picks the pocket of a spectator. A third monkey crouches on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punch's puppet show
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two lines of verse below title: Now's the time for mirth & glee, sing & laugh & dance with me., One of a series of Drolls., Plate numbered '161' in lower left corner., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 20.2 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 23.2 x 27.7 cm., and Printed on laid paper with watermark (trimmed).
Publisher:
Published 12th Sepr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Criminals, Crowds, Dogs, Milkmen, Monkeys, Organ grinders, Peddlers, Puppet shows, Spectators, and Street vendors
"A black saleman selling rabbits kneels on the pavement with his basket, looking up at a young woman who stands at the door of a house; she holds up one of the rabbits by a hind-leg. A manservant holding a dish stands behind her, grinning. Behind is the corner of a street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified based on original drawing in the Huntington Library collection., Two lines of text below title: 'Miss - O la how it smells - sure its not fresh, Mungo - Be gar Misse dot no fair - If Blacke Man take you by Leg so - ; you smell too.', From Drolls., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 8th 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Rabbits, Servants, Street vendors, and Women
