"Two pretty women leave a shop (left) to enter a coach whose back is towards the spectator. The foremost (? Duchess of Rutland), raising her petticoats high, puts a foot on the step. She is followed by (?) Lady Jersey, who crosses a step laid across a barred area or cellar, also raising her petticoats. A little girl (left) stands in the doorway. The legs of the ladies are eagerly inspected by male loungers. One man crouches at the back of the coach to peep through a quizzing-glass. The roadway on the right of the coach is crowded. Men with telescopes are indicated in the windows of the houses (right). Other spectators stand in the cellar or area looking upwards through the bars. The cover of a coal-hole in the pavement is pushed aside to show a profile. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cause of the lounge!!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker Isaac Cruikshank's initials are incorporated into the design, etched within the escutcheon on the back of the coach., Date in imprint transcribed as "April 1st, 1793" in the British Museum catalogue; etched lines resembling a "7" are found beneath the superscript "st" but may not actually represent a digit., and Imprint continues: ... who has just fitted up his Exhibition in an entire novel stile, admitance [sic] 1 shg. N. folios of caracatures lent out.
Publisher:
Pub. April 17st [sic], 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners, Duchess of, 1756-1831 and Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821
Subject (Topic):
Stores & shops, Carriages & coaches, Streets, Hand lenses, Telescopes, and Voyeurism
"A coach without passengers or driver proceeds (right to left) with the wheels sunk in sand (resembling water). Beside it trudge the driver (left), the guard with his blunderbuss, and two men passengers. On a bank above the road, two ladies and two men run in the same direction. On the roof of the coach are band-boxes and a turtle; on the door a swan with two necks (sign of the famous coaching-inn in Lad Lane)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left and right sides., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales. London : Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, 1796., "Plate 45" etched in upper left; "Page 109" etched in upper right., Printed on paper watermarked "1813". Window mounted to 44 x 28 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.