Procession of the Cod Company from St. Giles to Billingsgate

Procession of the Cod Company from St. Giles to Billingsgate

Item Information

Title:
Procession of the Cod Company from St. Giles to Billingsgate
Description:
A view of old Billingsgate, overlooking the river, with the fish being landed from the crowds of smacks at the old covered jetty, since swept away. The pilgrimage of the sturdy members of The Cod Company, we presume, is made to the craft on the river to take in cargoes of fish. The procession is composed of corpulent old Irish women, of colossal breadth and strength, all balancing their fish-baskets on their heads, some smoking their cherished clay pipes, and carrying their stoutly enveloped arms crossed, akimbo, or on their hips, after their individual proclivities.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Rowlandson Del.
Date:
September 8, 1810
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2
Subjects:
Rivers
Ships
Peddlers
Fishmongers
Places:
England > London
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
No. 111 Cheapside : T. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, ii p. 115, 190
On item: 11
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 2," the second volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:
18_03_000383
Barcode:
36666003262496