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(Facing p. 115.)
Artist
- Name:
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny
- Dates:
- 1790-1874
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Smith, John Orrin
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Harold B. Lee Library, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Heads of the people: or, Portraits of the English, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Collective work
- Publisher:
- London: Robert Tyas, 1840
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A young woman wearing a lacy bonnet with loose ribbons looks to her right while carrying a tankard in one hand and a tray balanced with glasses in the other. This illustration is inspired by the accompanying written sketch depicting Susan Hawkins, barmaid at The Castle, a tavern in the London suburbs. It is complemented by the following quotation from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: I understand the business, I hear it: to have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Album of types, black & white, female, hat, smiling, Victorian, working
