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DescriptionA Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall Mall Rowlandson 1809.jpg
"A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall", a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on Pall-Mall, London.
Dialogue in caricature:
Well-informed gentleman
"The Coals being steam'd produces tar or paint for the outside of Houses -- the Smoke passing thro' water is deprived of substance and burns as you see."
Irishman
"Arragh honey, if this man bring fire thro water we shall soon have the Thames and the Liffey burnt down -- and all the pretty little herrings and whales burnt to cinders."
Rustic bumpkin
"Wauns, what a main pretty light it be: we have nothing like it in our Country."
Quaker
"Aye, Friend, but it is all Vanity: what is this to the Inward Light?"
Shady Female
"If this light is not put a stop to -- we must give up our business. We may as well shut up shop."
Shady Male
"True, my dear: not a dark corner to be got for love or money."
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Author
Engraved by Rowlandson, 1809 (after a drawing by Woodward).
Thomas Rowlandson
(1757–1827)
Description
English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death
13 July 1757
21 April 1827
Location of birth/death
Old Jewry
London
Work location
London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file
: Q318584
VIAF: 56672964
ISNI: 0000000121341830
ULAN: 500006930
LCCN: n50022330
NLA: 35465846
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q318584
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"A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall", a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on Pall-Mall, London. Engraved by Rowlandson, 1809 (after a drawing by Woodward). This is a retouched ver
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