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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Seven enormously fat and brawny Irishwomen approach (right to left) the quayside at Billingsgate, below which are fishing-smacks. All carry baskets on their heads, two smoke pipes. An eighth woman, also smoking, sits on a low stool on the extreme left, with cod and lobsters spread out for sale. In the background (right) an open pent-house attached to the large houses flanking the dock is filled by tiny figures with baskets of fish; a man ascends a ladder towards it from the water with a basket on his head. One of the pent-house stalls is placarded 'Salt Cod Bar . . Ling Pilcha[rds]'. In the background larger vessels lie at anchor against buildings on the south side of the Thames."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.
- Description:
- "Price one shilling coloured.", Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 190., Date of publication based on earlier state with the complete imprint "Pubd. Septr. 18th, 1810, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside." Cf. No. 11626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Plate numbered "11" in upper right corner., Reissue, with first half of imprint statement burnished from plate., and Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Baskets., Fish. , Fishing boats., Fishmongers. , Piers & wharves., and Street vendors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Procession of the cod company from St. Giles's to Billingsgate [graphic] / Rowlandson del.