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Street walkers / RST ; etch'd by B. Smith.

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Benjamin Smith
1754-1833

Street walkers / RST ; etch'd by B. Smith.

[London] : Pub'd March 28 1787 by SW Fores at the Caricature Warehouse No 3 Piccadilly, [1787].
etching and stipple
image: 315 x 229 mm; sheet: 355 x 252 mm
Peel 1628
Notes
A later state of George 7080; dated 1787 instead of 1786, with the imprint of S.W. Fores instead of B. Smith.
Library's copy trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows a fashionably dressed man (right) walking from Bond Street into Piccadilly and a fashionably dressed woman (left), apparently a courtesan, stare fixedly at each other. He walks in profile to the left and resembles George Hanger: he holds a large tasselled bludgeon under his left arm. He wears a high cocked hat with a feather and cockade and spurred top-boots. The woman wears a large feathered hat and holds a muff; her petticoats project at the back (cf. BMSat 6874, &c.) and show her ankles. Behind the figures is the lower part of the corner shop at the SW. of Bond Street, the Piccadilly window inscribed '. . . Roll Maker', the Bond Street window, 'Paym . . . dge Roll' (the omitted words being obscured by the hats of the two walkers). From the former window-ledge hangs a pair of breeches. On the extreme right is a low shed or bulk against the wall of the shop, which is inscribed 'Shoes Men[ded]'; a man sits within. The names of the streets, 'Piccadilly', 'Bondstreet', are inscribed on the corner of the building.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 former owner.
Classification
Department