Street Walkers
RST Etch.d by B. Smith
Pub March 28 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly London
Rare etching, platemark 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Very small margins.
A fashionably-dressed man and a woman (a courtesan) cross paths at the corner of Piccadilly and Bond Street in London. The shop on the corner (a site now occupied by De Beers Diamond Jewellers) offers Uxbridge Rolls, while a child in the lower right offers a shoe-mending service. One of the first prints etched by Benjamin Smith (d.1833), who went on to work regularly for the major publisher of the day, John Boydell. First published the previous year by Smith at his premises in Battle Bridge (now Kings Cross).
BM Satires 7080
[Ref: 41484] £260.00
Pub March 28 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly London
Rare etching, platemark 360 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Very small margins.
A fashionably-dressed man and a woman (a courtesan) cross paths at the corner of Piccadilly and Bond Street in London. The shop on the corner (a site now occupied by De Beers Diamond Jewellers) offers Uxbridge Rolls, while a child in the lower right offers a shoe-mending service. One of the first prints etched by Benjamin Smith (d.1833), who went on to work regularly for the major publisher of the day, John Boydell. First published the previous year by Smith at his premises in Battle Bridge (now Kings Cross).
BM Satires 7080
[Ref: 41484] £260.00