Called to See His Friend
All Resolutions
He crossed the water in a wherry,
Walk'd up Size Lane to Bucklersbury,
And called to see his friend Mac Carey,
Who sold potatoes in an area
Description:
A man standing on the pavement draws his hat to the friend he came to visit, who stands in front of a belowstairs window.
The catalog record for this book attributes this series of illustrations to Isaac Robert Cruikshank, citing Gumuchian (the Parisian publisher?) as the only reference. Given that the same Gumuchian also mentions 1821 as the date of the first edition, whereas the book presented here bears 1819 as its publication date; considering that the record describes these illustrations as wood engravings while we incline to believe they might well be etchings, we won’t be endorsing the Cruikshank attribution for the time being.
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