The Opera Over! or ''The Last Man''.Sans Coach _ Sans Cloak _ Sans Every thing!! Dish me! if I sha'nt be in a nice mess before I get to Joy's!!
J.V.S. Esq. Inv.t.
Pub. June, 1827, by T. Gillard, 40 Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 290 x 195mm (11½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A dandy steps gingerly from under the portico of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, to the street, where water from a spout crashes onto his top-hat. A link boy stands as if asleep under the next arch. ''The Last Man'' refers to Mary Shelley's novel, one of the first dystopian works, in which plague leaves the protagonist as the only human alive.
BM Satires 15490.
[Ref: 57812] £290.00
Pub. June, 1827, by T. Gillard, 40 Strand.
Fine coloured aquatint. 290 x 195mm (11½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom.
A dandy steps gingerly from under the portico of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, to the street, where water from a spout crashes onto his top-hat. A link boy stands as if asleep under the next arch. ''The Last Man'' refers to Mary Shelley's novel, one of the first dystopian works, in which plague leaves the protagonist as the only human alive.
BM Satires 15490.
[Ref: 57812] £290.00