Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Humorous sea-side sketches.

Alternate Title(s):

Humorous seaside sketches

Published / Created:

London : Read & Co, 10, Johnson's Court, [1860]

Physical Description:

20 pictures on 2 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 262 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 15 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1475 .H865 1860
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Depicts twenty humorous incidents at the seaside. Several of the images depict bathing machines, devices popular in the 18th and 19th centuries to allow people to change out of their usual clothes into swimwear.

Cover title.

Date of publication from Abbey.

Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes, 224

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 613

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original red cloth with printed label on front cover. Publisher's advertisements on back paste down.

Exhibition History:

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

Subject Terms:

Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Satire, English. | Wit and humor, Pictorial. | Seashore -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor.

Form/Genre:

Accordion fold format (Binding) | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860. | Publishers' advertisements -- 1860.

Contributors:

Read & Co., publisher.