London Characters No. 7.Your Honour's Boots. [&] I hope y.r Honour will have a little job for Nelly, my darling.
[Published by Charles Tilt. 86, Fleet Street.] [n.d. c.1830.]
Hand-coloured etching. 185 x 235mm. 7¼ x 9¼". Cut into plate along lower edge, publication line removed.
Two scenes: to the left; a small servant man appears before his master with freshly polished boots and spectacles, the man of the household stands towering over him reading a broadsheet paper in front of the fireplace, a table with a teapot and cups. To the right: in the street a washer-woman smoking a pipe blows into the face of a man of society who raises his hand to stop the smoke in revulsion.
[Ref: 21548] £50.00
Hand-coloured etching. 185 x 235mm. 7¼ x 9¼". Cut into plate along lower edge, publication line removed.
Two scenes: to the left; a small servant man appears before his master with freshly polished boots and spectacles, the man of the household stands towering over him reading a broadsheet paper in front of the fireplace, a table with a teapot and cups. To the right: in the street a washer-woman smoking a pipe blows into the face of a man of society who raises his hand to stop the smoke in revulsion.
[Ref: 21548] £50.00