A_Peep_at_the_Gas_Lights_in_Pall_Mall_Rowlandson_1809.jpg

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"A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall", a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on Pall-Mall, London.

Dialogue in caricature:

Well-informed gentleman: "The Coals being steam'd produces tar or paint for the outside of Houses -- the Smoke passing thro' water is deprived of substance and burns as you see."
Irishman: "Arragh honey, if this man bring fire thro water we shall soon have the Thames and the Liffey burnt down -- and all the pretty little herrings and whales burnt to cinders."
Rustic bumpkin: "Wauns, what a main pretty light it be: we have nothing like it in our Country."
Quaker: "Aye, Friend, but it is all Vanity: what is this to the Inward Light?"
Shady Female: "If this light is not put a stop to -- we must give up our business. We may as well shut up shop."
Shady Male: "True, my dear: not a dark corner to be got for love or money."

Date

1809

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Author

Engraved by Rowlandson, 1809 (after a drawing by Woodward).



Description	English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death	13 July 1757	21 April 1827
Location of birth/death	Old Jewry	London
Work location	London , Paris (1774), France , Germany , Italy , Rotterdam (ca. 1794), Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
Authority file	: Q318584 VIAF : 56672964 ISNI : 0000000121341830 ULAN : 500006930 LCCN : n50022330 NLA : 35465846 WorldCat

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