Shrimps !

Francesco Bartolozzi after William Hogarth

Shrimps !

London, J & J Boydell ca. 1806

Stipple engraving

270 x 205mm

£150

From the collection of George Morant, (1770 – 1846) of 95 Wimpole St, London. A very fine set on mostly uncut sheets kept loose in a folio. Carefully printed and in very good condition.

Morant was a collector and Founder of a business of paper hangers, carvers, gilders and picture frame makers.

The company had offices at 88 Old Bond St,  from 1814, and was appointed as ‘house decorator, carver, gilder & picture-frame-maker to His Majesty’. From 1832 he was appointed again by Her majesty Queen Victoria

A lively portrait after Hogarth’s painting which now hangs in the National Gallery, of a shrimp seller. She is depicted three quarter length, smiling cheerfully over her shoulder, with one bare breast, and carries a wickerwork tray of shrimps with a half pint measuring pot on her head.