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Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/2/17/1 |
Former Reference | D5459/3/58 |
Title | A Bankrupt Cart: or the Road to Ruin in the East |
Date | 5 Nov 1799 |
Description | A family of London merchants, 'cits', travel in a small carriage pulled by a single horse. The father is wearing a cocked hat , the mother a hat with very tall ostrich plumes. On the right a newsboy with a trumpet holds a copy of the 'London Gazette'. Behind them rides a stout footman. They are passing in front of a 'Mash-Brewer'. On the wall of the brewery are pasted notices. One reads: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden the Comedy of the Bankrupt with High Life Below Stairs.' The other reads: 'A house to be let in Grosvenor Square. Suitable for Genteel family.' Available on CD 160. |
Level | Item |
Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
Further Information | Woodward Delt : Etched by Rowlandson
Published by R Ackermann No 101 Strand Novermber 5 1799 |
Physical Description | Handcoloured print. Size 381 x 250 mm. |
Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
Related Material | BMC 9466. |
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