"All the world's a stage..."
Record No
18252
Title
"All the world's a stage..."
Description
Illustration of a group of performers at the corner of Golden Lane, including a fiddler, two people on stilts, a juggler, a gymnast and a street organ player. On the ground is a cloud containing the word ‘Reminiscences’ and a sign reads ‘Notice to vagrants’, which is probably an allusion to the Vagrancy Act, 1824. On the left a person wearing a prosthetic leg, is likely to be Billy Waters, a street musician. He became so well known he gained the title ‘The King of Beggars’. Waters was one of the London characters depicted in William Thomas Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, an unauthorised stage adaptation of Pierce Egan's Life in London, or Days and Nights of Jerry Hawthorne and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, in 1821. He was so popular that he was immortalised as a Staffordshire Potteries figurine.
Date of execution
c1824
Section
The London Archives
Collection
Satirical Print Collection
Artist
Taylor, W.
Engraver
Taylor, W.
Medium
etching
Support
paper
Longest dimension
22cms
Shortest dimension
19cms
Picture type
satire
Catalogue No
p5428719
London picture map location
Approximate
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