"View up a street with thatched houses on either side; in the foreground at centre a man leaning over a fence, looking over to a group of people outside a cottage at right, a mother seated and nursing a baby, three other children beside her, a man seated and dandling a child, and a woman in the doorway, next to which is hanging a bird in a cage."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from Grego., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Also signed "Rowlandson 1822" in lower left corner of design., Date of publication based on other plates in the series; see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 373., Plate from: Rowlandson's sketches from nature. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1822]., For a probable earlier state published 25 November 1809, see: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 169., and Mounted on leaf 22 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
A young tightrope walker balances herself as she walks across the wire high above a crowd a fashionable dressed crowd of men, women, and children in a large field surrounded by trees. A fireworks display brightens the sky as the sun sets behind the trees
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published May 18, 1822, by Thos. Kelly, 27 Paternoster Row
Title from caption below image., One line of text above image: A legacy forgotten., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Legacy -- Mourning -- Grief -- Wall map: Cape of Good Hope., and Watermark.
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 7, 1822, by Hodgson & Co., 10 Newgate St.
A gentleman on the doorstop of a fashionable townhouse is turned away by a black footman in livery who tells him, "Massa not at home!" Two street vendors approach from behind, one of whom offers him tankard with a head of foam and the other further in the distance carries a tray of steaming plates. To the left is a lamp post
Alternative Title:
Disappointed dinner hunter
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopgate
R. Smart and I. Easly, Southampton, Winchester, Alesford and Night scene (inside of stage coach)
Description:
Title etched within image., Alternative title from manuscript caption added to print below plate mark., Name of publisher etched within image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Manuscript caption added below plate mark: Night scene (inside of a stage coach).
Title from caption below image., One line of text above image: A bankrupt settling with his creditors., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., One line of text above image: A joint stock company dividing their doeses., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.