A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.

  • Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.
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Sept. 5 1834
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31776i
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A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The posters already posted include: "R. Seymour respectfully informes the public that he has declined all connexion with Figaro!"; "Wanted to borrow £50000!!!" and "Drury lane. Lofty projects. Lying valet. Forty thives [sic]". The poster about Figaro is explained by Seymour's falling out with it: "In 1831 he began work for a new magazine, Figaro in London, producing nearly 300 small drawings to accompany the text of Gilbert À Beckett, often, as was customary at the time, having to work up something humorous from a dull political topic suggested by the editor. The partnership lasted until 1834, when À Beckett suffered a heavy financial loss and refused to pay Seymour money owed to him. Despite Seymour's conciliatory attempt to resolve the matter, À Beckett attacked him publicly in the pages of Figaro in London. Seymour resigned, and returned to the paper only after Henry Mayhew had been appointed to replace the former editor" (Oxford dictionary of national biography). Of the plays in the Drury Lane poster, 'Lofty projects; or, Arts in an attic' was a one-act farce by Joseph Lunn, which was in performance ca 1825, while 'The lying valet' was an earlier play by David Garrick

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London (137 Fleet St.) : Printed & published by R. Carlile jun, Sept. 5 1834.

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1 print : lithograph ; image 15 x 12 cm

Lettering

"Oh dear Sir, it vos the vind!" "to think it should be pasted too!" Sketches by Seymour. No. 5 Vol. 2.

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Wellcome Collection 31776i

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