Accession number
PML 146731, leaf 67
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, etcher.
Published
London : Published by Allen & Co., 15 Paternoster Row, April 1, 1797.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Numbered "Plate 84" in upper left corner.
Plate 84 from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted on leaf 67 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Plate 84 from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted on leaf 67 of a bound volume containing various works by George, Isaac, and Robert Cruikshank; including published suites of prints, individually published plates and caricatures, and miscellaneous illustration and reproductions removed from published works.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 166 x 240 mm; sheet: 186 x 251 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a street scene in Nottingham on a wet night. Two chairmen, wearing laced hats, carry (right to left) along "The High Pavement" an elderly woman in a sedan chair. In front walks a fat, absurd footman, holding a flambeau. Pedestrians with umbrellas look sourly at the chair.
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