I want some Strap Oil ?

H Gibbs (publisher)

I want some Strap Oil ?

London, H Gibbs, 1825

Stipple engraving

Original hand colouring

255 x 200 mm

£120

Plate 3 from a series of social satires on the working classes.A young man stands at a shop counter asking the attendant about Strap oil.

She looks at him attentively, while behind her back another young man with a broom, looks round slyly.

On a barrel by the counter is inscribed First of April.