View of the Tea Gardens at Bayswater.

View of the Tea Gardens at Bayswater caricature – Isaac Cruikshank the Elder after George Moutard Woodward

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

London, Allen & West ca. 1817

Etchings

265x210mm

£110

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

Two oval views. At the top, a dandified waiter pours boiling water over the leg of an outraged customer, and at the bottom a family of ‘cits’ sits in a shaded arbour drinking tea.

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