Current Location: In storage
Titles
A Tale of a Cab / The Tables turned in Arlington Street
HB Sketches No. 135
Maker(s)
Printmaker:
Doyle, John (HB)
Publisher:
McLean, Thomas
Draughtsman:
Monogrammist A (with John Doyle [HB])
(After)
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Description
Lithograph (uncoloured) on white wove paper. Inlaid within a frame of buff wove paper (approx. height 360mm x width 515mm). A horse-drawn cab is parked outside Lord Sefton's house at 21 Arlington Street. Lord Sefton sits in the driver's seat of the cab: 'How fortunate I learnt the Trade / of a Jarvy - but for it & my Old / _Cab_ which I saved from the fire, I / would now be just as badly off as / the rest of them - '. Two men, Hunt (left) and Cobbett (right) stand in front of the doorway at the far right. Signed with initial and monogram at lower left: 'A & HB'. The initial 'A' precedes HB's monogram to indicate additional authorship of the design. See George, introduction, xlviii. Title printed below the border: 'A TALE of a CAB. / The Tables turned in Arlington Street. (Scene laid in 1832.)'.' The publisher's details printed below: 'Published by Thos McLean, 26, Haymarket, June 16th, 1831.'. Printer's details below the border at lower right: 'Printed by [C. Motte], 70, St Martins Lane'. The printer's name excised in this impression. Printed above the border at upper right: 'HB Sketches No 135.'. See 16712,_Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires_, Vol. XI, 1828-1832, M.D. George, published 1954, p.497.
Legal notes
Given by Mrs J.E. Foster, 1895
