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SMITH, John Thomas.
Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Traders and other Persons of Notoriety in London and its Environs.
Smith's etchings are among the earliest attempts to depict the poor of London in a realistic way, serving as fore-runners to Busby's Costumes of the Lower Orders of London (1820) and Mayhew's London Labour and London Poor (1861-62). They present "a dramatic survey of street folk, blind beggars, cripples, the indigent poor of all kinds, and hawkers of trifles, observed with objectivity." (Houfe, Dictionary of Book Illustrators, p. 149) Smith had studied sculpting under Nollekens and mezzotinting under John Keyse Sherwin, after which he was appointed Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
- Published
- London: John Thomas Smith 1815.
- Plates
- 24
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: John Thomas Smith 1815.
- Ref
- 1485
8vo. (25 x 16 cm.). Original hand-coloured title and 23 plates. Boards richly panelled in gilt, Regency binding, spine decoratively tooled with twin red morocco labels and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges in gilt. Corners and hinges are slightly worn. A wonderful copy. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. George Wilson, the Pedestrian 3. Hot Peas 4. Pickled Cucumbers 5. Very Fine, Very Cheap 6. Live Haddock 7. A Study in Bethlem Hospital 8. Windmills 9. St.Luke's Day...A Poor Painter Removing 10. Lemons 11. Young Lambs 12. Umbrellas to Mend 13. Birmingham-Balls 14. Hearth-Stones 15. [Untitled] 16. Henry Dinsdale 17. Door-Mats 18. Roasting Jack, Toasting-Forks, Files, or Skewer 19. The Flying Pie-Man 20. Tinker 21. [Untitled] 22. [Untitled] 23. Wood 24. [Untitled]