Title

Mrs Gilpin pays the postboy to find her husband, 1878, (c1918). Creator: Randolph Caldecott.

Caption

Mrs Gilpin pays the postboy at the Bell Inn in Edmonton to find her husband, 1878, (c1918). John Gilpin was the subject of a comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper entitled "The Diverting History of John Gilpin". The ballad, based on real-life character, describes how, on a journey to Edmonton (north in London), Gilpin, a draper, became separated from his wife and children after losing control of his horse, and ended up in the town of Ware, ten miles away from his intended destination. From "The Diverting History of John Gilpin", by William Cowper. [Frederick Warne and Co., London & New York, c1918]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1918

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D55_153

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,0Mb (1,8Mb) / 14,3in x 16,6in / 4283 x 4980 (300dpi)

Keywords

England female women woman people child children country teenager teenagers British English humour location century Britain paying lady concept B&W full length MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 18th century 1910s 20th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector John Gilpin William Randolph Caldecott William Cowper Cowper Caldecott Randolph William Cowper