A shower, or Any port in a storm [graphic].

[London] : Pub'd by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly, June the 4, 1786.

1 print : etching ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26 cm

laid paper

Title from item.

"A number of persons take shelter under the enormous hat-brim of a lady who screams, clasping her hands in alarm. An infant chimney-sweep or 'climbing boy' has climbed up her petticoats and sits astride on their lateral projection. A larger chimney-sweep is about to climb up, putting one foot on his sack of soot. A cloaked market-woman, smoking a pipe, stands under the shelter, as does a man in the dress of a naval officer. A sailor, wearing trousers, his arms folded, appears to be dancing a hornpipe under the shelter of the hat. In the background (right) a lady walks (right to left) holding up a small umbrella which shelters only a minute part of her enormous hat which extends far beyond her projecting breast and petticoats. In the foreground chickens run towards a hen for shelter. A house (left) and a high wall behind which is a tree (right) complete the design."--British Museum online catalogue.

Any port in a storm

English

November 13, 2006

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7105