[Traffic] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Traffic] [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Wigstead, Henry, attributed name.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1791 or 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S.W. Fores
Abstract: "Two Jewish clothesmen outside a respectable mansion at right, buying clothes from an unimpressed housemaid standing in the doorway with a bundle under her arm and a clothes-pail on the step, one man standing with one foot on the doorstep and one on the street, holding up a pair of breeches, the other putting his hand through a hole in the seat; behind at left, a milkman settling his account with a housemaid in another doorway, two maids leaning out of windows on the first floor above and conversing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from lettered state.
Printmaker signature "Rowlandson fect." etched in lower left corner of design; additional signature "PM: A:Ja. [?] fct. [or fet.]" very faintly lettered in aquatint on doorstep in lower right portion of image.
Artist attribution to Henry Wigstead from Nicholas J.S. Knowles.
Perhaps an early state (lacking title) of a plate first published by S.W. Fores in 1791, and then republished by him on 16 December 1794; see Grego. See also British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.647.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Forryan; February 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.6 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English