Les savoyards / G. Cruikshank fect.
[London] : [published Septr. 18 1818 by G Humphrey nepew [sic] & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street], [1818 September 18]
Above the design "A little Music à la Françoise--." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Lettered with artist's name and publication line "London published Septr. 18 1818 by G Humphrey nepew [sic] & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street." Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy is trimmed within plate mark and lacks title and imprint information.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
A street scene, with the railing and ground-floor of a substantial London house as background. A man turns the handle of an orgue de barbarie slung from his neck, while he sings; with him are two women, one sings, a tambourine in her hands, the other plays a fiddle. All are neatly dressed, the women have coloured scarves round their high coiffures, and wear long ear-rings. All three have a general resemblance to the Italian witnesses of prints of 1820. The spectators are a pugnacious-looking butcher with meat-tray and bull-dog, a dustman with his bell under his arm, a fat fishwoman with a basket on her head, a ragged boy with a hoop. Other persons walk along the pavement behind the performers; an apple-woman looking over her shoulder pushes her barrow into a lady, while a little chimney-sweeper steals her apples. Two dandies and a lady are on the extreme right. At an open window a fat woman listens to the music and coquettes with a dandy. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.