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May-Day in London   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Blake

After: Samuel Collings
Published by: Harrison & Co
Title
May-Day in London
Description
English: Social satire; folding frontispiece to the May issue of volume one of "The Wit's Magazine" (London, 1784); May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others. 1784
Etching
Depicted people Illustration to: Samuel Collings
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 189 millimetres
Width: 226 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1872,1109.326
Notes

This print is related to "May-Day. An Epistle...", which appears in letterpress in the text of "The Wit's Magazine", p. 191.

For William Blake's prints for "The Wit's Magazine", etched after designs by Thomas Stothard and Samuel Collings, see 1872,1109.322-26 and J,7.6.

Another impression of this print is in a scrapbook in the British Museum collection, reg. no. 1979,1110.25 (not yet catalogued on-line, as of 12th July 2004).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-1109-326
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