Price: $1,250.00
SKU: 102613
PUBLISHER: London Published Dec 29th 1819 by G Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
MEDIUM: Etching and aquatint,
DATE: 1819.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 3/4" x 13 3/4" ( 24.8 x 35 cm ).
DESCRIPTION: This spirited print captures the chaos of a fogbound London street, exaggerating the city's famously overcast weather for comic effect. A boy pushing a handcart barrels into a fashionable lady, knocking her to the ground just as a startled dandy steps on her neck. Another gentleman is struck by a lamplighter's ladder. On the right, three ragged link-boys dart through the gloom—one caught in the act of picking a pocket. Their torches, along with the lamplighter's flame and a faint glow in the distance, barely penetrate the dense fog. In typical Humphrey fashion, the scene turns a familiar inconvenience into a raucous satire of urban life in London.
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CONDITION: Good condition and color.
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