A Shilling Fare to a Christmas Dinner, or, Just in Pudding Time.''Oh Crikey, Bill, wont you catch it neither.'' _ ''Infernal Rascal'.' _ ''I beg y'r pardon Sir, I didn't go to do it.''
Drawn & Etched by Theodore Lane Eng.d b Geo. Hunt.
Pub.d by Geo. Hunt 18 Tavistock St, Covent Garden [c.1826]
Etching and aquatint with fine hand-colour. Sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, old paper label stuck on reverse.
A smartly-dressed gentleman steps out of a carriage and is hit in the face with a mud pie. The assailant is the boy in the foreground on the right, who was aiming for his friend (far left). The plate was etched by Lane and aquatinted by Hunt. The first state: it was republished by Thomas McLean in 1827.
Hickman p.95.
[Ref: 59450] £280.00
Pub.d by Geo. Hunt 18 Tavistock St, Covent Garden [c.1826]
Etching and aquatint with fine hand-colour. Sheet 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate, old paper label stuck on reverse.
A smartly-dressed gentleman steps out of a carriage and is hit in the face with a mud pie. The assailant is the boy in the foreground on the right, who was aiming for his friend (far left). The plate was etched by Lane and aquatinted by Hunt. The first state: it was republished by Thomas McLean in 1827.
Hickman p.95.
[Ref: 59450] £280.00