All Resolutions
(Facing p. 113.)
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 smiling woman wearing a bonnet is seen from the front carrying an empty glass in one hand and a bottle in the other. This illustration is inspired by the accompanying written sketch depicting Charlotte Chatham, landlady of The Castle, a tavern in the London suburbs. It is complemented by the following quotation from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It : You shall never take her without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Album of types, black & white, female, portrait, smiling, Victorian, working
