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"Going to London through "Epping Forest"
Title
"Going to London through "Epping Forest" [graphic] / B. [compass pointing north] Esqr. inv. & del.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Augt. 3d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street, [3 August 1802]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.7 x 20.6 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 22.4 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched above image.
Printmaker identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue.
Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"An ugly middle-aged woman, wearing a calash hood (cf. BMSat 5434) over a cap, picks up her petticoats to step over or through a bush shaped like a forest tree, but spotted with red fruit. She grins and clutches in her right hand a paper inscribed 'Wonderful Aeronauts'. She is walking towards a garden latrine (left). Two concentric circles of greenery surround the bush. There is a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2015
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9934
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1802.
Etchings - England - London - 1802.
Artists' devices.
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