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Sandwich-carrots! Dainty sandwich carrots / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Sandwich-carrots! Dainty sandwich carrots / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect.

[London] : Pubd. Decr. 3d 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street, [1796]
etching, hand colored
image: 352 x 248 mm; plate mark: 354 x 253 mm; sheet: 470 x 299 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.157
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows Lord Sandwich lasciviously accosting a young street vendor who is pushing a wheelbarrow full of carrots. In the background is a bookseller's shop at the corner of 'Little Maddox Street' and 'New-Bond Street'. A sign over the door reads 'Faulder' [i.e. Robert Faulder] and above the two windows, 'Bookseller & Book Binder'. Pamphlets or open books fill the panes of the windows: 'Rules of the Order of Sr Francis' [an allusion to Sir Francis Dashwood and the profligate order of Medmenham Abbey]; 'List of Servant Maids'; 'A Chip of the old Block'; 'Doe Hunting an Ode by an old Buck Hound'; 'The Beauties of Bond Street'; and 'A Journey through Life - from Maddox Street unto Conduit Street & back again'.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints