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The Royal Saloon Piccadilly.
The Royal Saloon Piccadilly.
Engraved by R. Cruikshank [after 'Bernard Blackmantle', pseudonym of Charles Malloy Westmacott].
Pub.d by Sherwood Jones & C.º Sep. 1. 1824.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 160 x 260mm (6¼ x 10¼"). Edges chipped, a few small stains.
An interior, with the floor and balcony lit by a large chandelier, with men and women eating and drinking. The Royal Saloon was 'an all-night' house, famed for the quality for its cuisine, cellar and women, who were restricted to those personally invited by the management. From Charles Molloy Westmacott's 'The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle'.
Abbey Life 325, ''described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published''', as many of the people described were easily identifyable.
[Ref: 62058]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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