Title from caption below image., Plate from: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark ... / Written at first in the year 1598, by John Stow ... London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "9" in lower right corner., and Mounted to 33 x 46 cm.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey
"A man on horseback in a street with his arms around two women, one of whom is crying at right, an old lady sat in profile in the foreground holding a bunch of flowers and a dog drinking from a fountain behind, a man watching the farewell with crossed arms at left, a church building behind a high wall before which a carriage is waiting behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.9 x 21 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides, and artist's signature mostly erased from sheet.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Quotation below title: His master and he are scarce cater-cousins. Merchant of Venice.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: She let her second floor to a very genteel man. Tatler.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: She let her second floor to a very genteel man. Tatler., and Window mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
A young woman servant carries a teapot and a key. Text below image: I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself. Merry wives of Windsor
Description:
Title from text below image. and Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840.
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., and Text below title: The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft. Dibdin.
Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The batchelor by William Congreve., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Basins (Containers)., Bedrooms, Chairs, Clothes chests, Gout, Interiors, Medical equipment & supplies, Men, Older people, Pitchers, and Women domestics
Title from text below image., Illustration from an unidentified edition of: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. Editions of this work were illustrated by Kenny Meadows and published ca. 1840., Text below title: Ne'er turns the key to th' poor. Shakspere., and Window mounted to 24 x 36 cm.