print;
satirical print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1864,0611.398
- Title
- Object: Lowest "life in London" - Tom, Jerry and Logic, among the unsophisticated sons and daughters of nature, at "All Max" in the East.
- Description
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Illustration to Pierce Egan's Life in London, page 286. Customers drink and smoke, seated round the walls of a sordid room, while a black woman and a coal-whipper (Black Sal and dusty Bob) dance a double shuffle. A baby on the lap of a woman smoking a pipe extends its arms to its mother, while Jerry pours gin down the mouth of the wooden-legged fiddler. Logic sits with a woman on each knee, one black. Tom makes overtures to the fat mistress of the house who stands by the fire over which is a notice: All Lickers To Bee Paed For On Delivery. The room is lit by a gas-jet.
Bound in the 1821 edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London, printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. (See 1864,0611.376-412. 184.c.7)
1 May 1821
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 237 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952.)
Max = gin. This public-house was the Coach and Horses, Nightingale Lane, East Smithfield. Hindley, True Hist, of Tom and Jerry, 1888, p. 154. A woodcut vignette of the dancing pair represented 'Low Life' on the covers of the monthly parts; cf. No. 14334. See No. 14633.
For further information on the publication, see 1864,0611.376.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Life in London
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0611.398
