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Spit Fires, 1810

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/33
Spit Fires, 1810
Spit Fires, 1810

Scope and Contents

Engraving (coloured impression). A scene on Clerkenwell Green, outside the 'Sessions House Crerenwell' [sic], whose door is on the extreme left. Two termagants face each other in the foreground; one spits at her enemy, arms akimbo, the other tries to use her fists but is held back by an elderly man who grasps her round the waist and kicks her, losing his tie-wig. The former woman is fashionably, the latter roughly, dressed. Both have coarse faces with a certain comeliness. In the background constables with staves are shepherding women through the door of the Sessions House, where Middlesex magistrates sat. Other constables and women are suggested behind the ‘Spit Fires’. On the right are old-fashioned gabled houses. Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 192 f. (outline copy). Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII. 11633.

Dates

  • Creation: 1810

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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