"Extravagantly dressed pedestrians promenade beside (?) the Serpentine. Almost all are arm-in-arm, an exception being an ugly and complacent woman whose face is covered by a long transparent lace veil. The women walk leaning back, as in BM Satires 144...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
A French man stands in profile to the right in front of his upturned chair, his hand on his protruding belly as if in pain, as an older woman sits at the table refilling his tea cup. A young woman stands behind the woman at the table, smiling behind a...
Alternative Title:
English manners and French politeness
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Etiquette, Foreign visitors, French, Manners and customs, and Tea parties
Two newly arrived Frenchmen meet on the pavement outside the door of the White Bear (Piccadilly). Their speech and appearance amuse two girls who have just passed (left), and a stable-boy and coachman (right) and the fact that a dog is urinating on th...
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Dogs, Umbrellas, Stores & shops, Taverns (Inns), and Urination
"Reissue of a print published by Humphrey, 25 June 1819. An enormously tall pole projects from a rocky mound seen against a background of sea and icebergs. A sailor with a Union flag has climbed nearly to the top; at the base is a little group of sail...
"Scene in a school-room, pupils performing for admiring relations and friends. Eight little girls in party frocks do dance-steps while an agitated dancing-master leans angrily towards them, playing his fiddle. Other little girls watch from a bench (ri...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
"Five passengers sit together on a bench against the side of a ship, all but a small boy, seemingly a mulatto, manifesting misery or resignation. The others (left to right) are a woman shrouded in black except for her chin, a planter in a long coat an...
"Two elderly men, in old-fashioned dress, play chess, seated at a small table, lit by two guttering candles. One moves, the other watches with intense concern. Each has a deeply interested spectator leaning on the back of his chair, the one on the rig...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Bowling, Chess, Dogs, Fireplaces, Hand lenses, and Pictures
