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A real scene in St Pauls Church Yard, on a windy day.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
A real scene in St Pauls Church Yard, on a windy day.
Description
English: Street-scene, outside the print-shop of Carington Bowles. Foot-passengers are having their hats and wigs blown off, their garments blown violently, by a gust of wind. In the foreground a boy wearing an apron has fallen to the ground, his tray of fish is under the feet of a lady who walks from right to left, holding her hat, a muff in her left hand, her hair, cloak, and petticoats streaming behind her. A stout woman in profile farther to the right tries to catch her wig and hat which have blown from her head, she wears a cloak trimmed with ermine. Other walkers clutch and lose their hats with expressions of anger.


Behind (left), each of twenty-eight panes of the shop-window is occupied by a print, as in BMSat 3758 (1774), another view of this shop, the margins being displayed, and the titles almost legible. The top row consists of seven prints of divines, in which, as in 3758, well-known mezzotint portraits of John Wesley and Whitefield are conspicuous. The other prints are humorous, among them are BMSat 3753, 3754 (1782), 5953 (these three are partly cut off by the left margin of the print), 5951, 5952, 5954, 5955. 5950, 5956, 6348.
Over the shop window, partly cut off by the upper edge of the design, is the name of the shop, '[...Map& Prin]t Warehouse', in large letters.
On the right appears the door of the adjoining house, inscribed '68', with its railings and part of the front of the house. c.1783


Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date between 1782 and 1784
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 350 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.30
Notes

(Description from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The original water-colour for this is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (325 x 250mm), and has been much reproduced.

An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 was dated 9 June 1783

See also an uncoloured impression 1880,1113.3312
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-30
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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