Norwich bull feast or glory and gluttony.

Thomas Rowlandson

Norwich bull feast or glory and gluttony.

London, Thomas Tegg, Nov 22^nd 1813

Etching

Original hand colouring

250 x 355 mm

£350

A crowded turbulent scene in the market square, Norwich. In the foreground, on trestles, is the carcass of a bull which two butchers are cutting up. Men struggle or clamour for fragments, or gnaw and fight over bones. On the right a huge cask has been broached; women fill pitchers and pails; one lies senseless. In the background a dense crowd is in procession, backed by the houses of the city; a bonfire burns unattended. The cheering crowd moves from right to I., following banners, one inscribed ‘Downfall of the Tyrant’, and an effigy of Napoleon raised high on a pole and surrounded by pikes