“Caricature with a family of a working man, his wife and daughter dressed in fashionable clothes, with a cottage and pig on a dung-hill in the background.”–British Museum online catalogue.
A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman’s wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of ‘La Bells Ass-emblee’ (John Bell’s La Belle Assemblée, or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine).
- Printmaker: Marks, John Lewis, printmaker.
- Title: The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century [graphic] / Marks fect.
- Publication: London : Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate, [approximately 1824]
824.00.00.64
Acquired November 2022
Print shows a man and a boy chasing a pig in the yard of a country alehouse. In the background, another man pauses to remove his hat and wipe his brow, while a fourth has evidently tripped and lies sprawling on the ground. A dog barks at the commotion.
Nine small scenes, arranged in three rows, showing people and animals engaged in various activities.
