Sujet

'Mother Wood, the popular procuress!', 1820. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Légende

'Mother Wood, the popular procuress!', 1820. Alderman Wood, dressed as an elderly woman, stands in the porch of his house in South Audley Street holding a bottle inscribed Popularity; the allusion is to his championing of Queen Caroline and he is compared to a notorious brothel keeper of the same name.

Date

1820

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B00_318

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

20.4Mo (1.1Mo) / 19.0cm x 26.9cm / 2240 x 3176 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior road building buildings London England female holding women woman people male man men hat house street country guy costume bottles clothes British English color colour lane avenue bonnet dress bottle location century Britain porch lady outside transvestite georgian cartoon 19th century nineteenth century City of Westminster Guildhall Library & Art Gallery alderman Alderman of London Mayfair TGN Matthew Wood Sir Matthew Wood King of Great Britain etching caricature satire South Audley Street Isaac Robert;IR Cruikshank;Cruikshank IR;Robert Cruikshank Matthew Sir Matthew King George IV George IV Caroline of Brunswick Caroline Queen Consort of George IV Queen Caroline Princess of Wales Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Wood Isaac Robert Cruikshank IR Cruikshank Robert Cruikshank Isaac Robert Cruikshank;Cruikshank Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick Prince Cruikshank Isaac Robert Cruikshank IR