"Scene in a broad London street parallel with the west front of St. Paul's which tops the houses. A burly sailor, pointing with his thumb to St. Paul's, and holding a watch and seals, addresses a Jew old-clothes man who approaches him cringingly. The Jew is bearded, wears three hats, holds a sack on his shoulder, one (thin) leg in a dilapidated Hessian, the other in a top-boot. Below: Give me a pound for Her, will you; I'll see you D--n first, why I set Her by that big 'un Last night & she's out sail'd Her by 7 Hours."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of dialogue below title: Give me a pound for her will you; I'll see you d--n first ...
Publisher:
Pub. May 29, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond Street
Title from caption below image. and Two lines of dialogue are inscribed on either side of title: What would this nut say if it could speak? D--n it give us none of your jaw!
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
"A man stripped to the waist is dragged at the cart's tail while a man flogs him ferociously with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The scene is a dusty suburban road, with one house and trees. Boys run up cheering; a fish-woman stands to jeer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Backgammon
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and First print in a series of four.
Publisher:
Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
"The interior of a fashionable goldsmith's shop. A well-dressed woman stands at the counter where the proprietor peers through his eyeglass at a (?) bank-note; she hands a watch and chain to a fashionably dressed man seated beside her, who screens the transaction with his top-hat. A boy leans from the street to snatch the man's handkerchief from his pocket. Outside are the trees of a London square"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., and Third plate in a series of four.
Publisher:
Pub. July 23, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's & 74 New Bond St.
"Scene outside a large apothecary's shop, both windows filled with large coloured jars. Above the door is the sign, a terrestrial globe on which scales are balanced. Outside, a doctor in old-fashioned dress, acts as usher with a long wand to a band of naked infants (left) who run eagerly towards him. In the jars fœtuses are indicated. Outside the other window stands an undertaker holding up his professional staff and doffing a hat draped with a mourning scarf towards a skeleton who advances from the background (right). Behind the skeleton is a church among trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with text "The World!" removed from lower margin and added (without exclamation mark) to the shop sign within image. Text beginning "Accoucheurs & apothecaries ..." below image has also been re-etched. For earlier state before these changes to the plate, see no. 14584 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies.
Publisher:
Pub. June 29, 1823, by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Drugstores, Storefronts, Globes, Scales, Signs (Notices), Physicians, Infants, Containers, Undertakers, Staffs (Sticks), Skeletons, and Churches
"An obese man has dismounted to offer help to an injured man thrown from his horse. In the background (left) a second saddle-horse grazes and (right) three men run off with the victim's hat, whip, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 12, 1823 by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's St. & 74 New Bond St.