A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

  • Busby, Thomas Lord.
Date:
[1826?]
Reference:
726192i
Part of:
Busby's humorous etchings.
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A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Left background, a door with inscription on lintel "St. Giles's"; on the front of the spiked door, "Watch house". Background right, "Barclay Perkins & Co. entire wine vaults", with drinkers outside. St Giles was an insanitary area of poor housing in London, in the parish of St Giles in the fields, near the junction of Oxford Street with the later Tottenham Court Road

Publication/Creation

[London (the Artist's Depository 21 Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq.)] : [T.L. Busby], [1826?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 10.7 x 13.8 cm

Lettering

Partiality. T.L. Busby del. & sculpt.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 726192i

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