Love and dust [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 4 June 1810]eng"A group of cinder-sifters at work on one of the vast laystalls which disgraced the surroundings of London in the 18th century (notably off Tottenham Court Road). A woman of the lowest type, ragged, naked to the waist, holds her sieve, turning her head to her male counterpart, a burly dustman, who helps her by shovelling cinders into her sieve. They grin amorously at each other. She is hideous, stout, and muscular. Two other cinder-sifters kneel on the ground, both are aged crones; one bends over her sieve, the other drinks a glass of gin. In the foreground are the bones of a horse. Behind (left) is the dustman's cart. In the sky a flight of birds (left) are suggestive of carrion crows."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Reissue by Tegg of a print originally published in 1788; see British Museum catalogue and Grego.Probably a later reissue of the plate, with Tegg's imprint statement and the year "1810" under Rowlandson's signature burnished out.Publication information based on earlier reissue with the imprint "Pub'd June 4, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 11 Cheapside." Cf. No. 7444A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, page 969.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1."Price one shilling coloured."For the original issue of the plate, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 234-6.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 189.