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Westminster frolics
Title
[Westminster frolics] [graphic].
Edition
[Proof before aquatint and lettering].
Production
[London] : [Sherwood, Jones & Co.], [1825]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 15.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 23.0 x 30 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
For published state see: No. 15204 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
Provenance
With a stamp on verso: From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz, "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 44.
Summary
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, discharges a squirt at the frightened woman who falls, clutching at the fleeing watchman. See British Museum catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2016
Subjects
Genre/Form
Trial proofs.
Caricatures.
Watermarks (Paper) - J Whatman Turkey Mill - 1825.
Etchings - England - 1825.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1825.
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