In the image at the top: Four ladies, fashionably dressed, sit round a table dividing the profits of 'the Faro Bank'. On the table are heaps of guineas with cheques or banknotes, a sword, a ribbon and star, a paper: 'Bond 200 . . half Pay . . Faro'. T...
Alternative Title:
St. James's and St. Giles's
Description:
Title etched between the two images on one sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 20, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801 and Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Poverty, Prostitutes, and Social classes
Design in two compartments contrasting on the left the poverty and depravity of "French Liberty" with the opulence of the British on the right "British Slavery." The thin, ragged sansculotte with a liberty cap on his head, warms his bare, talon-like f...
Alternative Title:
British slavery
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 21st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, France., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
History, Taxation, Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Poverty, Rugs, Taxes, and Wealth
Design in two compartments contrasting on the left the poverty and depravity of "French Liberty" with the opulence of the British on the right "British Slavery." The thin, ragged sansculotte with a liberty cap on his head, warms his bare, talon-like f...
Alternative Title:
British slavery
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. December 21st, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France, France., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
History, Taxation, Britannia (Symbolic character), Liberty, Poverty, Rugs, Taxes, and Wealth
An elated cobbler skips joyfully in his dilapidated workshop waving his wig with one hand and a "10000" pound lottery ticket with the other. The tools of his trade are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Shoemakers, Lotteries, Poverty, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
An emaciated women sits in a bed playing cards. Her clothes and sheets have tears and holes; the wallpaper is falling off the walls. Under her bed is a used chamber pot and to the left a table with shoes and an umbrella. An elegant coat, dress, and ha...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice
