Returning from a Rout on a Rainy Night A Promenade to a Rout on a Fair Evening

Isaac Cruikshank the Elder after George Moutard Woodward

Returning from a Rout on a Rainy Night

A Promenade to a Rout on a Fair Evening

Eccentric Excursions or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance saying, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales.

London, Allen & West ca. 1817

Etching

265 x 210 mm

£220 the pair

The pair £220In plate ‘a’ glum revellers pick their way through muddy streets, holding umbrellas, and trying to keep their skirts out of the puddles. In plate ‘b’ fashionably dressed locals, wearing summer dresses, attend a party at the Old Maiden’s Head with a sign of Elizabeth 1^st.

Caricatures taken on Woodward’s extensive tour through England and Wales.