"The platform extends across the centre of the design. Below are the audience, three-quarter length and half-length, standing and seated. A man in patched clothes stands in the front of the semicircle of men seated on the platform, holding out his emp...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pulished [sic] June 21, 1827, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
British and Foreign Bible Society. and Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
"Scene in an auction room, a sale in progress; paintings hang from walls and are displayed from an easel, a crowd gathers in room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Christie, Manson & Woods.
Subject (Topic):
Audiences, Crowds, Events, Interiors, and Art auctions
A crowd, gathered in the courtyard under the sign of The George Inn on the route to Brighton, examine a horse seemingly under auction; a man in the doorway holds up a hammer. People look out at the scene from the windows of the inn. Two men converse w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 1, 1790, by Messrs. Robinsons, Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Animal auctions, Audiences, Travelers, and Taverns (Inns)
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
A scene in Vauxhall Gardens: On the balcony of the second floor of a structure, Miss Feron stands in the foreground singing with a group of musicians behind her and to the side. On the grounds below groups of men, women and children look up with pleas...
Alternative Title:
Great Catalani
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published,September 25th, 1809, by Laurie and Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Harlequin, wearing a costume decorated with tools and animals of the conjuring trade, balances on a ladder facing right. The laughing audience is seen beyond the edge of a wooden stage in front of a sheet screening the scene, suggesting a street perfo...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Theatrical productions, Stages (Platforms), and Audiences
