A woman in fine clothes and a large bonnet is invited by a young man to go on a river trip to Richmond-on-Thames. Coloured etching.
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Description
She misunderstands him, confusing a steamer as a boat with a steamer as a cooker of foods (the letter sense justified by a citation in the Oxford English dictionary from 1814 : "Stew-pans, hot dressers, steamers, digesters")
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 16.4 x 11 cm.
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Lettering
I say we'r all agoing to Richmond on the steamer. Lawd Sam aint you afeared of being blowed up? Scenes in London No. 43.
Creator/production credits
By Robert Seymour?
Reference
Wellcome Collection 35877i
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