Smithfield Market. (Death of) This print is pub.d in Commemoration of Smithfield Market & Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor & Corporation of the City of London. With my best wishes to the inhabitance of Copenhagen-fields & Islington. N.B. The highest Police court Clarkenwell!!!
J.L.Marks Long Lane Smithfield [n.d., c.1852].
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear repaired, laid on album paper at edges with a song sheet, 'Exibitions, or John Lumps Ramble to Somerset House'.
A chaotic scene in Smithfield cattle market, with people fighting the bulls stampeding through the crowds. A policeman is being tossed through the air. A satire on the closure of the livestock market after an Act of Parliament called for a new cattle market to be constructed at Copenhagen Fields, Islington. The song sheet, 2 holes at bottom, features Batholomew Fair, with a scene of another cattle market.
BM 1927,1126.1.5.12.
[Ref: 64204] £320.00
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear repaired, laid on album paper at edges with a song sheet, 'Exibitions, or John Lumps Ramble to Somerset House'.
A chaotic scene in Smithfield cattle market, with people fighting the bulls stampeding through the crowds. A policeman is being tossed through the air. A satire on the closure of the livestock market after an Act of Parliament called for a new cattle market to be constructed at Copenhagen Fields, Islington. The song sheet, 2 holes at bottom, features Batholomew Fair, with a scene of another cattle market.
BM 1927,1126.1.5.12.
[Ref: 64204] £320.00