PAIRING OF HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS
British, early 19th century. Two engravings in matching frames: the first a satirical cartoon from George Woodward's Symptoms of the Shop (Plate 3) reading "I beg Sir - you will not touch upon curiosities, - you must know Sir - before they made a Knight of me, I kept a shop full of curiosities - oh it would have done your heart good to have seen me behind my counter, shewing my pickled Crocodiles! - but now, I look with my sword sticking out behind exactly like a blue bottle fly, with a pin stuck in my tail!!" & "You are the very thing Sir for a court dress - you are absolutely a curiosity". Dated May 14th, 1801, published by S.W. Fores and etched by F. Sansom. The second The City Chance-Seller, published by Thomas Pulser, Westminster Bridge Road, Lamboltz.
Frames: 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm.)

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