The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an...
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Shipsfood v., and Street vendors
Huntsmen and hounds with moutned members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimeny and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
The fishwives stalls are in the foreground with the masts of ship vessels behind, and among them one tall smoking funnel. The market buildings are on the right. The foreground is more crowded than in other Billingsgate prints. The chief feature is an...
Alternative Title:
Visit to Billingsgate
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Billingsgate Ward (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856 and Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828
Subject (Topic):
Crowds, Fishmongers, Intoxication, Riding habits, Servants, Ships, and Street vendors
Huntsmen and hounds with mounted members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimney and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
The King's Bath with the heads of men and women emerging from steaming water. Robert Cruikshank (right) is in profile to the right, addressing a pretty woman, and pointing to 'Blackmantle' who swims (defying the rule), approaching a group of alarmed a...
Alternative Title:
Stewing alive
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Scene in a crowded room lit by a few guttering candles, 'far exceeding in profligacy and dissipation' anything depicted by R obert Cruikshank in St. Giles. Men and women fight, drink, and smoke. An old soldier fiddles, a woman beats a drum for dancers...
Alternative Title:
Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
