"A crowded interior. An old maid, grotesquely lean, spectacled, and hideous, sits in an arm-chair beside her fire (left) on which a concoction in a saucepan boils over, surrounded by fierce flames. This she stirs with a spoon but turns to the right to...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Costume, Medicine bottles, Pets, Painting, Foot, Diseases, Birdcages, Cats, Dogs, Feet, Fireplaces, Medicine, and Single women
"Three separate scenes blend into a single design. The dialogue is etched in the lower margin. On the left a young girl sits on the knee of her father, a stout drink-blotched man wearing a plain old-fashioned wig, breeches, and top-boots. She takes hi...
"A disorderly mass of pedestrians fills the pavement outside the White Horse in Piccadilly, the street slanting in perspective from left to right. The pillared porch of the hotel is flanked by large curved windows, above which is the inscription 'Coff...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
Piccadilly (London, England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Chimney sweeps, City & town life, Crowds, Dandies, Dogs, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
Published as the act directs, November 11th, 1835 for the propietor by Messers. Ackermann, Strand; C. Tilt, Fleet Street;Reeves & Sons, Cheapside, Riddle & Co., P.N. Row, and Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and T. Bird, 134 Oxford Street
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
"A melancholy man wearing night-cap and slippers sits facing an empty grate (right), his feet on the fender, supporting his head on his hand. He is beset by demons, figments of the mind, who are mostly miniature human beings. One stands on the back of...
