The Steam Boat.
[Henry Heath.] Pub.d by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827. Coloured etching. Sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, slight crease. A fashionable but queasy lady on the deck of a steamboat in windy weather, her hand to her throat, saying, 'Its werry pleasant a board a steamer sir?'. A more stoical man with his hands in his pockets replies, 'Werry indeed marm - but I likes a vun hoss shase [one-horse chaise] better it doesen't rumble vun so'. Not in BM Satire
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