The Steam Boat.
[H. Heath.]
Pubd. by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked: 1822. Plate 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed on right. Small margins on 3 sides.
Satire; 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-'.
[Ref: 52320] £230.00
Pubd. by Tho.s Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Hand-coloured etching; paper watermarked: 1822. Plate 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed on right. Small margins on 3 sides.
Satire; 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-'.
[Ref: 52320] £230.00