What a Treat! I Wish You May Get It!
H. Heath fe.t.
Pub.d 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
Two satires on one plate, both showing the interiors of shops. In the first a ragged boy holds up a broken plate, asking the shopkeeper for 'Two pen'orth of scrapings and if you please, Mr Stilton, Mother says you must send it good, cos she's got company-a coming!!'. The second shows a girl asking for change of sixpence for her mother, who will give the shopkeeper the sixpence next week.
BM: 1985,0119.407.
[Ref: 41794] £160.00
Pub.d 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton Street.
Coloured etching. 255 x 365mm (10 x 14½"), large margins. Repaired tears in edges.
Two satires on one plate, both showing the interiors of shops. In the first a ragged boy holds up a broken plate, asking the shopkeeper for 'Two pen'orth of scrapings and if you please, Mr Stilton, Mother says you must send it good, cos she's got company-a coming!!'. The second shows a girl asking for change of sixpence for her mother, who will give the shopkeeper the sixpence next week.
BM: 1985,0119.407.
[Ref: 41794] £160.00